"You're annoying." -Andrew Tadros

(Author's note: I apologize. I thought I posted this last night, but it turns out I just saved it.)

Can you believe it?! Andrew said I was annoying! Why would anyone say such a thing. Well really, he said it because I was insisting on paying him back the equivalent of $5. This also happened to be at the end of our day long trip in the streets of Cairo exploring architecture and Coptic Cairo, so he was easily annoyed. It was really cool to see Coptic Cairo with a Coptic Christian. He taught me a lot of things about the structure of the church. It is very similar to the Catholic church in many respects. It was neat to hear about fellow Christians nothing like myself.

The coolest thing I learned was about the altars. There were two or three altars in every church we visited. I found out it is because Copts and their altars have to fast before partaking of the elements. If a church has more than one service a day, there has to be more than one altar so each one has "fasted." So many different customs, but we are all following the same God. It is funny how humans can create differences in such unity.

Before we went to Coptic Cairo, we went on his class field trip to various mosques, palace remnants, etc. I liked listening to the teacher's background on the history and looking at the cool sights. I tended to tune out when she started talking about the architecture though. I mean, I don't have to take a test on it or find it particularly interesting. I liked looking at architecture, but i don't feel the need to know about the history of it. I hope you enjoy my pictures from the day. Just click the title. Happy Saturday!