IT THUNDERSTORMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I will be posting in spurts from now on until I get home and can get Internet from there, so look for one or more posts when you see a new one. This is important if you want to catch all of what I am writing. :)

My roommate and I were watching this movie called Funny Games the other night. Aside from being really hot, we were sitting there sweating the whole time, even with the fan, it was really creepy. It is a weird German film about these two young men, one fat one skinny, who go to these rich vacation homes while the owners are there and torture and kill them. The whole time they do it, they are pleasant and polite.

Anyway, that is to set the scene. While we were watching the movie we start hearing these booms coming from behind the other apartment building next to us. They come in bursts, and these aren’t little firecracker explosions. We thought we were getting bombed, seriously. I expected that some rebellion had occurred and that the military was using tanks to reclaim order. Either that or planes were dropping bombs on all the government buildings. My roommate and I didn’t hear the telltale fizzle or sparkle to indicate that these were fireworks. We go out and investigate and catch the last of the explosions: fireworks for an inauguration of something.

So we start watching the movie again and then it starts lightening, thundering, and pouring violently for about ten minutes. Besides being the first glorious thunderstorm that I have seen in a long while, we thought it was the end of the world.

It cooled for a while after the downpour then got humid and hot as Cairo is wont to do.