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Masr! Masr! Masr! This was the cry in the streets ALL NIGHT LONG after the Egyptians won from Algeria with 2-0. Actually it was quite a boring game, but the outburst of the Egyptians in bar Picasso was just hilarious! I made a film of it. The men were crying! It was nice to notice that, instead of cursing when something went wrong, they clapped their hands. How polite!

Yesterday we went to Abusir. We got a tour by a Czech egyptologist, whom all the girls were listening to with much attention, because he was just a very beautiful man. We visited the piramids of Niuserre, Neferirkare and the tomb of Ptahshepses. Extremely beautiful, but hey, what can I say... I have a crush on the Old Kingdom tombs! My collegues all climbed a pyramid, and Sandra and I stood downstairs to take pictures of them waving very happily! I meditated a bit in the sand. There was a lot of wind that day, and it felt great to sit still in the sound of the wind, and imagine an ancient civilization on those grounds. I guess I get a bit new age-y when I'm near piramids.

Then we visted Memphis, but there isn't a lot left of it, except for some huge statues of Ramses II, an alabaster sphinx, a sarcophagus and some stones. Still it was interesting. We got a nice idea of how big the city must have been. We visited the remains of the palace of Apries, and I very elegantly fell on my buttocks when trying to descend a steep hill.
Back home I talked to Guillaume, and I met up with the Dutch people (without Quentin) in Pottery's café, then had a takeway pizza and went to Kaz's appartment to eat it. I spent the rest of the night with Sandra, Amy and Kaz, zapping on their TV, dubbing Arabic soaps (who has a lot of camera zoomings, it made us nauseous), and watching a depressive Korean short story (spoken Korean, subtitled Arabic, and still we understood more or less what was going on... we rock!).