You know you teach in Cairo when....

• every time you hear "Miss" you turn your head
• you are often referred to as, "the Miss" ..... E.g. "When the Miss is talking, you need to listen."
• there is a cow slaughter at your school.....and the upper grades are invited to attend
• you are breaking into the supply room through the window just to get some laminating sheets and tape rolls.....all to avoid the hoops you have to jump through to get the supplies properly
• you have "dedas" (basically servants) who will come in and clean up your classroom after painting.....and if you try to do it yourself, you get yelled at....
• you have Matrons who run all your errands for you and will cut out things for you or hang up your art projects in the halls or basically all the grunt work a teacher usually does themselves or pawns off on their family
• you have a school Doctor instead of Nurse
• you send a student to the School Doctor because he smashed his finger while playing basketball and it's swollen or because he was pushed and smacked his head on the curb...and he comes back with a lump of "magic cream" on it, when what he really needed was some ice and rest
• you're pretty sure you know more about medicine than the school Doctor
• a Deda comes into your room saying a whole bunch of stuff to you in some foreign language and you have to ask your students to translate....oh, she just wants some scissors, sure! 
• you tell the IT guy who speaks very little English that the wifi in the staff room is not working...and he simply laughs at you and says no, there's no wifi in here.....so instead you have the deda go grab the key for you to the room where you know the router is and just reset it yourself
• boys are called out in front of the whole school by the Executive Director and told they need a haircut
• you want to send a simple note home to the parents, but first it needs to be approved by admin to check for any cultural issues
•  a group of six year-olds are teaching you a different language during their lunch break :)
• you hear the Holy Quran recited every morning in front of the whole school and then we salute the flag and sing the National Anthem

..More to come as the year progresses