Powerful Times

Cairo, as ever, brings forth strong changes.

The last few weeks have been full expansion and in the last few days alone I have had many business successes with a fully booked new writing course at Darb 17 18, a request by Diwan (national bookstore) to run courses in their stores and to develop a children's course, a post as 'writers' recruiter' and PR for a new venture in Minya; The New Hermopolis (more on that soon and of course the performance at Darb that took place on Saturday and an interview with a daily newspaper that will be following and invitation to perform at a large venue at a later date. And all this as well as the weekly private writing courses!!!

However, on a personal level.. 'mon amour' is no longer.. the wheel has turned again and hurtled from being one way to another within a time frame of one week.

Right now it is 8.26am and I have had 4 hours sleep and got up at 7am as the new guests will be arriving anytime now (and could have been from 7.30am). This is horrendously early for Cairo and as soon as I have gone through the basic introductions to the quirks of the flat I will be going back to bed for most of the day.

This evening I shall be attending the Indian Embassy and eating some very nice food with some very nice friends :-)