The members of the bible studies’ group I am invited to join take turns in hosting and today we’re heading far out to October as the satellite city 6th of October is called. One of them has a car, so we meet at his house in the late afternoon and leave Cairo (although officially we don’t) as darkness starts to fall. The highway is not as busy as it could be, the pyramids glide past us in some distance, grey is the desert to both sides of the road, it does look a bit like a moonscape, suitable surroundings for a satellite. 6th of October was planned and built to relief population stress in Cairo, but somehow it does not seem to work out exactly as planned. While there certainly are some few millions of people living out here, many houses look abandoned in different stages of completion and many of the cloned toy-like houses are empty.
View towards Cairo
We pass by a vast mosque still under construction, huge petrol stations and shops and more heaps of grey sand put up along the street for some reason unknown. After repeatedly calling our host for directions we arrive at his guarded neighborhood (some young guys sit at the entrance and ask where we’re going) where he turns up in his car to guide us to his house. It has a small green garden and some unoccupied and unfinished neighbors. The Indian meal cooked on the standard Egyptian stove (about 1.3x0.8m) tastes delicious on the spacious terrace with darkness falling and temperature still above 30 degrees. Except for South America all continents and several Christian denominations are present at the table and I really enjoy the exchange of views on Colossians 1 from very different angles. And I don’t really feel very much like “the new one”.
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