51 I was sitting on the shore trying to wet my hair with my hands "Do you want me to take you down?" Huh? "Seems like you want to wet your hair, I can take you out past the plants and plastic-- I'm Alexandrian!" Ah so you're a fish :) "Aw God bless you thank you" (Mental note: calling people fish in Alexandria is high praise) I had seen her and her cousin surfing earlier (first time to see a surf board on our beach!) I decided to trust her I took her hand and she pulled me past all the leaves and floaty debris It was cleaner I wet my hair I also violently spun around underwater back into the debris with my thighs clenched around my runaway booty shorts and my top flipped over my head I was pulling weeds out of my bum in the shower Alexandrian fish was 24 and her cousin was an Alexandrian American baby boy of 14 (surfboard suddenly made sense) He heard me speaking English, they wanted to be friends Aww I think I'm tante Sarah, not Sarah "Nooo, why how old are you" 37 *shock and awe* I cackled at their reactions "But how?!" Asian genes and blood sacrifices :) Maybe I'll run into them again today I spent yesterday evening with K, smoking shisha on the beach Nice long chat until we were yawning She's off with the mooovie staaar in Cairo today So cute, I hope they work out--they both really deserve it If I can just ditch Aly and Cat, I can carve out a decent day I think they noticed my distance and they're actually being nicer to each other slightly, still tense sometimes Baba's trying to get me to cook without explicitly asking "We're making chicken and molokheya" "Isn't that what you cooked last time?" "It's really yummy when you make it" He took the chicken out of the freezer while I made my coffee and put it on the counter next to me "Chicken!" *pat pat* Mmhmmm... I want to swim off the shisha lungs and then nap on the beach |