Our New House

by Izzet Serif 8:59 AM - Sunday, May 15, 2016 0 comments cairo Egypt mice at the house Moving New House

Before we came to Egypt to study the Arabic language we have heard that there was an old Cairo and new Cairo. Among friends we were debating where would it be better to stay in new Cairo or old Cairo. New Cairo is a calm and quiet suburban place with huge houses which are kind of like small villas. Old Cairo is loud and crowded and it's all city. A bad thing about new Cairo is that we would be 30 minutes away from school and the markets in new Cairo are really expensive compared to old Cairo. A good thing about old Cairo is that school would be 5 minutes away on foot and everything would be very cost effective. In the end we chose to live in old Cairo. 

 We stayed in a apartment with 3 bedrooms and one bathroom. We were fine until we came across a few problems. First of all we got mice in our house. When we learned about the mice we got mouse traps. We caught around 12 mice that month. Also another problem was having one bathroom. We were 7 people in that house and one bathroom wasn’t enough. Sometimes a few people needed to go in at the same time which made it a problem. The last problem was the kitchen. I think we had the smallest kitchen in Cairo because the walking space in the kitchen wasn’t much bigger then the surface of my bed. Also it got dirty really easily and the counters were always sticky for some reason.

In the beginning of this month we decided to move. Our new house has 3 bathrooms and 3 bedrooms. Also a spacious kitchen and living room. It is also closer to our school. We’ve been in it for almost 2 weeks and it's great. Another great thing that this house has a balcony, something that our other house didn’t have. Also, there is no sign of mice as long as one them from our old house didn’t try to sneak in one of our bags when we first moved.  I think we’re OK...