Today is busy from start to finish with the exhibition needing setting up and then the VIP opening taking place.

There are a million things I could write about which absorbed our day: from the electrician driving us crazy and even gluing things so that the screens we had bought would no longer work by remote control, secretly watching three grown men (including the security guard) play with beads, the ushers who were helping me stick hundreds of bits of paper on the wall point-blank refusing to entertain the word 'straight' despite speaking fluent English, me messing up my speech as I panicked that the arty, heart-felt words I had planned would sound stupid after some serious trade and economy based speeches by others and in the end my mind went blank and I rambled about...who knows what, the impossiblity of standing still, or sitting down, for a second without any one of a number of Egyptian men attempting to chat me up, ask me to go on holiday with them or ruder suggestions, watching a man do interpretive dance in the garden of the British Council, meeting so many ambassadors that I soon lost track of who they were and where they were from and so many other points that amused, infuriated, baffled or delighted me.

Before I knew it the opening was over, I had got to meet almost all of my students again (the organisers were unable to track down the Nubian women who had attended the workshop), had my heart swell with pride at the work they had all down in just a few weeks, met so many parents, sisters, children, friends and other family memebrs, shaken so many hands and posed for so many photos that the event was a blur and I completely forgot to take any photos as it happened or even of all the wonderful work. But rest assured as soon as I have some I'll show them to you. In the mean time if you want to see some more photos I took in cairo click here.