its only just begun

Third night in Cairo.
No sign of any sort of travel sickness yet.
My sleep schedule is starting to adjust.
Cairo is still just as weird and chaotic as it was when I first arrived, but the chaos seems much more friendly than it originally did.
There are police everywhere, but I don't think they do anything aside from sitting around with their big guns and occaisionally waving. I'm convinced that the police force is just Egypt's form of wealthware. "No job? Here's a uniform, now go stand at a street corner".
The cars drive fast and don't really seem to follow any set of rules, but they will usually stop or atleast honk before they are about to hit you.
I believe that there are only two rules in Cairo that are actively enforced.
1) No taking pictures of ANYTHING. whenever there is a cool building, there is always a guard or policemen there to spring to action and shout at me in arabic when I get my camera out to take a picture of it. Terrorism plot thwarted.
2) Men and women are not to be alone. ever. I can't have girls up to in my room or even on my floor. There are guards at the men's and women's respective elevators to make sure that nobody ever forgets this.
Walking around with girls in public is an interesting experience though. All the egyptian men star at them and whisper (and sometimes shout) cat calls in arabic. One girl I was with was called a whore, but she was wearing short sleeves so she deserved it.

Aside from that, everything seems pretty lax. People are generally good natured and having conversations in half english/half arabic (well usually it is 90% english and 10% arabic, but whatever) has been fun. It is a nice place and a crazy place.

here is the view from the room:
not much, but I can tell if it is day or night at a glance!

and here are photos of me and my two roommates.

From left to right we are John, Matt and Matt (me).
We had to turn in 3 passport sized photos for something, so we went to a photography studio and got them taken. To our great delight we learned that we get a free glamor shot with frame for whatever reason. I think they turned out great.