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Jake in 2010 Variety Show

Jake Bailey in 2010 Frontier Valley Elementary Variety Show

Jakob's Variety Show May 1, 2009

This is the video of Jakob singing and playing "Tiny Dancer" at his elementary school talent show.

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Cairo Cab Ride

Here's another portion of the article By Challiss McDonough Cairo 29 June 2006 in the Voice of America. It definately sums up the traffic in Cairo:

Visitors to Cairo usually describe the traffic as "terrifying." The streets are packed with cars, and there seem to be no rules about how they should behave. There are white lines painted on the roads, but everyone ignores them. There are traffic lights on many corners, flashing from red to green, but nobody pays attention to them.
Veterinarian Sameh Abdel-Fatah describes navigating the streets of Cairo as a very bitter experience.
"There are no rules, just people and cars everywhere, and traffic, traffic, traffic," he says.

I didn't film during the peak hours of traffic. This video was taken around 2:00 in the afternoon. I wanted viewers to get a feel for the pedestrian game of "Frogger" going on while we drive through the city.

(Disclaimer): No pedestrians were injured during the taping of this video. Have a nice day.

Cairo Subway

I took a portion of this article written By Challiss McDonough Cairo 29 June 2006 in Voice of America. It does a great job introducing a video I tapped of the subway system here in Cairo:

"Traffic in Cairo is notorious. It can sometimes take hours to drive from one side of the massive city to the other. But the city is also home to Africa's only subway system, one that is surprisingly modern, clean and efficient, especially compared to the chaos on the streets."

My next video will show you the "chaos of the streets."

The Beach in Alexandria

You know how they say a picture says a thousand words? Take a look at this picture of the public beach in Alexandria.

At the end of the video I also show the private beach.