10:00 am bus trip to the Fostat Souk to see a fashion show of Bedouin and other Egyptian traditional dress by collector Dr. Shahira Mehrez. This trip was sponsored by the Women's Association of Cairo of which I am a new member. I sat next to a wonderful Egyptian woman, Edna from Heliopolis who was at least 75 years old. She was a wonderful and lively woman in spite of her having a headache. She told me she has, first thing in the morning, a cup of Turkish coffee and two cigarettes plus breakfast and she is set for the day. Only two cigarettes per day, she says it makes her calm and ready for anything. I rubbed her neck and told her to massage it to alleviate the headache since she doesn't like to take any kind of pills beyond the one she takes for high blood pressure and something else for her osteoporosis. The women were saying "how do you know about this?" I said I was a healer and an artist. Just simple things. Lots of Egyptian women, American women, French etc. who live in Cairo and are English speaking belong to this association. There are a lot of activities sponsored as I may have mentioned in a previous blog.
The fashion show started at 11:30 am and was an hour with countless examples of dress from Siwa to Upper Egypt and Nubia. I bought a Bedouin bracelet and earrings later on at one of the shops there. I also have contact information for Shahira who has a grand opening of her collection and shop on the 27th in Dokki.
All in all, a great day. I had the chance to speak to so many women. We took the bus back to the Cairo Marriott and I exalted in the cool air conditioned palace of a hotel. It's my place to get money from the ATM and today, the bank clerk at the Bank of Alexandria there gave me change for 400 LE in all the bills I could desire. It is sooo hard to get change here and so helpful to have small bills. Imagine walking around with $100 bills and you want to ride the bus and purchase a ticket with one. That's what it is like here.
Well, must go now. Tomorrow is jewelry class at the Women's Association in Zamalek very close to me at 11 Yehia Ibrahim Street.
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