If you’re not following Jose and Omar’s trip throughout Egypt, you should be. The incomparable Silvia Tolisano ( of langwitches fame) and Mrs. Menger are traveling through Egypt and are blogging their journey. Jose is a bear and Omar is a camel, and they are the best of friends.
But we need their help!
My students found this note under our classroom door today and we don’t know what it means. Please, Jose and Omar, find someone in Egypt to tell us what it means!
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We’re anxiously waiting and keeping track of you! Thanks for the great blogging and pictures, and say hello to Mrs. Tolisano and Mrs. Menger!
Jose and Omar says:
Omar and I are so happy that we are able to help your students. I love to talk with people all around the world.
It was very easy to find someone to read the note, since here in Egypt EVERYONE speaks Arabic. It reads:
“Welcome to South Carolina”
Omar and I are having a great time, although we got separated from Mrs. Tolisano and Mrs. Menger. They are catching up to us though and they will hopefully meet us when we go and see those great statues of this pharaoh (that I can’t remember the name of) in Abu Simbel. Do you know the name of that pharaoh???
28th September 2007 at 7:41 am
Jenny says:
A couple of my students who speak Arabic took a look at this note. They have many questions about it, because they think it says something about asking people to come to Carolina. They read the names Ahmad and Saheod in the note. But they aren’t sure. So, they are curious to know more about an exact translation to determine where there understanding differs.
Thanks!
28th September 2007 at 7:17 am
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28th September 2007 at 5:10 pm
Mina Akladios says:
it means welcome to south Carolina
28th September 2007 at 9:57 am