Picking up from yesterday –
I just had to tell one last wild thing, which is –
So, I’m in this car with someone with whom I basically cannot communicate. None of my questions are being answered, ostensibly because he can’t understand me.
It’s hard to convince him to go on any path except the one he has (which luckily was tourist destinations, but like to convince him to go to the hotel so I could exchange money was a whole thing).
I didn’t have much local currency at all, as money usually helps most situations, and I didn’t have it. (But I also did? Because I had Euros, so not to say he’d be trying to kidnap me, but I better not get kidnapped haha.)
And I’d seen some people on Tik Tok talking about how dangerous Egypt is. (Now clearly, I didn’t take those random account of dangerousness seriously enough to not go, but still.)
And THEN on top of all of that, the driver kept getting lost in Alexandria and talking to strangers. And he rolled down the window, and started talking in Arabic with this local man.
And then the man GOT IN THE CAR to help this dude navigate around.
So, it’s just now these two strange men, and when I’m trying to ask kinda like “hi, who are you?” Neither of them speak English.
I mean, I was in an area with a lot of people. I didn’t actually think I was in any real, true danger.
But like what a ride that we’re just picking up strangers on the street and I can’t communicate with anybody.
And here’s where I’ll pick up tomorrow.