Cairo Craziness

My flight to Cairo started off well. I saw two American couples standing in the boarding line and one of the men was wearing an orange Denver Broncos shirt. We were told to wear orange to identify each other as AIS West teachers. I chatted with them for awhile before boarding.
The flight to Cairo started off fine - I ended up sitting by two teenage boys coming back from summer school in the States. I fell asleep for awhile, but then was woken up by a lot of voices and flight attendants running up and down the aisles. It turns out that an Egyptian man 3 rows behind me was deeply unconscious and they suspected him of either having very low blood sugar or a seizure. All of his vitals were fine, but he refused to open his eyes. Men around him were shaking him and he was pushing back at them, but he would not say anything and he was squeezing his eyes shut.
The captain ended up landing the plane in the Greek island of Rhodes where an ambulance was waiting.

Landing on the island of Rhodes

As soon as we landed the man "woke" up suddenly and said he was fine. He refused to get off the plane for a medical check up, so then the police were called in. In true Egyptian fashion, almost every man on the plane came up the aisle to talk to the guy, trying to convince him to get off the plane so he wouldn't get tazed and then bodily removed from the plane.

The Greek police coming to bodily remove the passenger.

The captain even threatened to disembark all the passengers and then have the police remove the guy. Eventually, the other Egyptians lied to him and told him he would have a 20 minute check up and that the plane would wait on him.

He was forced onto the ambulance.

As soon as he was in the ambulance, we took off without him. I hope he eventually gets to Cairo and that he was fine and really just wanted to sleep!
After getting to Cairo an hour and a half after we were supposed to, we went through immigration and then to baggage claim. My bags, of course, did not arrive. I stupidly removed all of the emergency clothes from my carry-on in order to put my heavy shoes and books in it. Everyone in the teachers group now knows my name because they had to wait 30 minutes for me to fill out paperwork on my missing luggage. I was the only one to lose my luggage!
Myself and another teacher went to the Mall of Arabia so I could buy some toiletries and a few clothing items. I ended up going to Spinney's, a grocery store to find an affordable shirt. I have my orange shirt now!
Everyone from AIS is so nice! They handed us envelopes with settling in money, contact sheets, a sim card, Internet plans, etc. we are staying at the Novotel in 6th of October for a few nights. I am apartment hunting today and tomorrow.
Hopefully my next post will be an apartment tour!

Location:Novotel