A bus tour of Cairo and the New Cairo construction site
On Saturday we went on a bus tour of Cairo. Guided by the remarkably knowledgeable AUC Assistant Provost for Special Academic Programs, Dr. John Swanson, we drove through the city viewing mosques, the citadel, 
architecture and squares in brief; a preview of sites we have yet to explore.
The tour also took us to New Cairo, the place to which The American University in Cairo will move next summer. Hard-hatted, we walked through a construction site admiring scaffolds, huge empty buildings, bare walls and holes in the ground. Just meters away the desert, nothing but sand a bare rock, spread out as far as our eyes could see. It’s an amazing thing, this construction in the desert; American funding and Egyptian craftsmanship combined with cheap land and creativity – a great potential for success.
Lovely Lady of La Leche, most loving mother of the Child Jesus, and my mother, listen to my humble prayer. Your motherly heart knows my every wish, my every need. To you only, His spotless Virgin Mother, has your Divine Son given to understand the sentiments which fill my soul. Yours was the sacred privilege of being the Mother of the Savior. Intercede with him now, my loving Mother, that, in accordance with His will, I may become the mother of other children of our heavenly Father. This I ask, O Lady of La Leche, in the Name of your Divine Son, My Lord and Redeemer. Amen.
architecture and squares in brief; a preview of sites we have yet to explore.
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