Animals

There are suprising a lot of animals in Egypt. Cairo is defenitely an oasis like Alaska...but for the population size of Cairo, I'm kinda suprised to see animals other than rats. I luckily haven't seen a rat but supposedly they are there. I'm hoping to stay nieve and not have to worry about it:) Anyway,the first thing I have noticed was how many cats there are!!! No wonder people say cats have 9 lives. They never seem to go away!! Its kinda funny thinking of stray cats but they exist. I see them constantly in the streets, in piles of gargbage, in the stairwell of my apartment, and even on campus. So if you are allergic to cats, I warn you to bring allergy medicine if you come to Cairo. There are also the few stray dogs...which really scare me because dogs are usually more fierce than cats and they follow you too. oh well. Then the cool thing was that one time I woke up at 6 am to a sound of a bird. lol I thought I was back in Colorado because there are 2 giant trees next to my room. But I was still in Cairo...and there was a green tropical looking bird(sorry I'm not a bird expert) on the chair of my balcony!! It was a cool surprise and a really beautiful bird. It even stayed on my chair when I opened the door. I was really impressed. I'll have a picture posted soon also:)