… though coughing up a storm. Her cold has moved from head to chest, so she’s hacking like mad.
And speaking of storms, there’s an ice storm headed this way, so Les UDs are preparing for loss of power, and for life in the Legacy Hotel, once again.
UD’s problems are meager, however, compared to those of her sister’s husband’s daughter (this is her other sister, not the Morrissey freak), who, with her young twin daughters, was due to be flown out of Cairo this morning. This woman’s husband – a graduate of George Washington University medical school, and a military doctor – has been stationed in Egypt; but he has also lately been flying to Djibouti, and he was in Djibouti when the protests broke out.
GW, the Washington Post reports, has a number of current students in Cairo, one of whom talked to the campus paper:
Cory Ellis, who is in his first year of GWU’s Middle East studies graduate program, told the GWU student newspaper, the Hatchet, that he went to some of the protests, camera in hand. Although Ellis watched the riots from a safe distance, he was temporarily incapacitated by tear gas, according to the Hatchet.
“I didn’t come to Egypt to take classes. I can take classes at GW. I went 5,000 miles away from home to experience another part of the world and immerse myself in the culture,” Ellis told the Hatchet. “I major in international affairs, so I want to experience international affairs. I didn’t want to let the chance to witness history slip by me.”
Here’s an account of another GW student there.