Day 75

Thursday April 3rd

The news on everybody's lips these days is the protest that will happen in Midan Tahrir this coming Sunday. Apparently people are coming to protest just about everything, from the Muslim Brotherhood not getting the right to run for elections to the high costs of bread (it might increase to more than 1 cent a loaf) to Textile workers going on strike. Plus throw in just general unsatisfaction with their lives here and you have the formula for a grade A riot. Except for the fact that Mubarak control and will employ massive amounts of police to quell any protest and that because there are so many different reasons for protest and so many different people congregating in Midan Tahrir not many people think it will be that organized. So AUC will still have classes even though some teachers privately canceled. As I do not have class on Sunday I do have to worry about the Midan being closed, but it still could mean big problems for a lot of Cairo.

Not much happened today with me personally. I hung out with George and Kieran and his roommate back from Notre Dame, Sean, who is a real cool cat. They are going to the black and white desert this weekend. So that should be a lot of fun, for them.