Always know your directions!!

Yesterday (Oct 30) I met a friend, Reham, to hang out. She practices her English and I'm supposed to practice my Arabic... but lol I mostly speak English. Anyway, I took the metro to go meet her at the McDonald's in the area known as El Malek El Saleh. I've met her at the McDonald's before and was planning on walking there from the metro stop. Getting off the metro was horrible...I had so many people make comments about me and one person called me a donkey!! I'm hoping thats the only English word he knows. Anyway, I left the station and had no idea where I was. The last time I was at McDonald's, it was dark. Obviously, everything would look different but I was surprised to notice how different. I decided to keep on walking and hoped it was correct street because I was tired of having people making comments about me and saying Hi and blah blah blah. well the road I was walking on turned into a dirt road, and there were several donkeys. I knew I wasn't in the right area. I called Reham for help but I ran out of credit on my phone! In Egypt, you buy phone cards to add credit to your mobile. Its nice because you get what your paid for. You don't have to worry about not calling enough and wasting your money or paying ridiculous going-over charges. Unfortunately its not fun when your in a situation like mine! I get the courage to ask some girls for help (In Arabic:)) but I misunderstood their directions and remained lost. Then I got the courage to ask a man selling fruit and it turns out that I was on the wrong side of the metro station. I had to go to the bridge and walk on the other side. Then I remembered that the first time I went to McDonalds, I came from a different direction! And then it made sense why everything looked different! Needless to say, I escaped the taunting children (never thought I would be so afraid of 8 year olds:)) and made it safely to McDonalds...and I even managed to buy some more credit:) And I learned a very important lesson about remembering directions...and miss my western mountains even more:)