A R C H I V E 
Current location: Assiut, Egypt
Current project: Observation and training for English teachers
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Barrette and Sandy W. Plett
El Salam El Haditha School
Om El Batell Sq.
70 El Gomhoria St.,
Assiut, Egypt
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MCC is currently looking to fill 6-9 positions in Egypt. If you're interested or know someone who should be, look at these job descriptions.
Guitarless Barrette is no more! Today, we stopped the madness and used money our parents had given us at Christmas to buy me a guitar.
Between the guitar, starting our work in Assiut's schools, and the great friends we've been making in Assiut, we're feeling pretty happy!
We're here! We're in Assiut, our flat is beautiful, and we've started working. We are breathing sighs of relief and saying, "Finally!" Here are a few pictures of our new home. Many new experiences and impressions come with moving to a new place. We've collected some of them in a dictionary format for your enjoyment. Here's a sample:
accordion - Every morning at 7:45 a.m.… (more)
bladder - Due to the relentless "hospitality," our bladders are getting a… (more)
"Don't look back…" - Sandy intoned these words to Barrette as they… (more)
We had two different exciting visits in January. On January 23rd, we spent the day with 4 students from EMU. We took them for a short language class, then to climb the minarets at Bab Zawayla.
Barrette's aunt Maryanne and cousin Carlee also came to visit in January. We went on a felucca ride, visited Gloria (Maryanne's sister-in-law, who's also with MCC and was the reason for the visit) at Ezbet-el-Nakhl, went shopping, and generally had fun seeing some familiar faces!
A former MCC IVEP participant (Sherry) invited us to come visit her village one Friday. It was beautiful, lush, green, pastoral. Here was rural Egypt. But for all its earthy, agrarian beauty, the visit also showed us how hard life is in the country. The people farm small plots of land almost entirely by demanding manual labour. We felt honoured to have this glimpse into life in rural Egypt, and felt reminded of our Mennonite roots; the agricultural methods these people use are perhaps not so far from those our great-grandparents used when they first arrived in Canada.
Celebrating our first Christmas (and other things).
Our first 2 months in Egypt.
