Geoff has managed 2 days at school now without any mishap, he says most of the children are in and only one member of staff hasn’t made it back, mainly because her husband works for the American embassy and their daughter needs to stay at the school she is at now rather than changing around. He is still passing armoured personnel carriers at the roundabouts as he drives in on the bus, but they are gone from Maadi. El Alsson has not opened because of some of the parents putting pressure on the ministry – the director has put a very sharp letter about this on the web site (www.alsson.com) that is well worth a read. He is not happy about it.
Maddison came and packed food bags with me today, she ended up carrying them in the wheel barrow as we stacked them in the hall ready for collection tomorrow. It was just as well she came as there were only three of us to start with and we had to get it all sorted out by ourselves, then Cathy (the distributor) turned up with some people and we all happily bagged away. We managed 150 today until we ran out of pasta.
It was my last time to lead worship at prayers today, Mark will lead tomorrow, and we had to finish at 6pm because the police are leaving the streets when it gets dark. The Pastor had been asked to mention this to us and say women should not be wandering around on their own after dark (so just like any other major city now). So things are not ‘normal’ yet for Cairo, but are about right for many other major cities.
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