Egyptians

So I have met this one Egyptian named Kero. He's quite the character, always prone to laughing, and always says goodbye by saying 'pray for me'. Great guy, everyone loves the guy. Though since he is Egyptian he has somethings that are a little bit different to me. For one, he has one fingernail that is really long. Just the one. I have no idea why, and perhaps I'll ask him, but its a little bit odd to see. Second (and perhaps more importantly), Kero has a very different idea of personal space then I do. We were both early to a bible study that takes place in Abie's apartment. They have two couches that sit at a 90 degree angle to each other. In Canada that would entail one person sitting on the one couch and the other person on the other and you chat like that. For an Egyptian this entails sitting RIGHT next to each other, possibly with your hand on their leg. Kero was really close, reaaaalllly close. Not so comfortable with that. He was. It was just how things were done for him. I was slightly uncomfortable with it, I'll admit that, though once I got it through my head that it was a cultural thing, I felt a little bit better about things. Though still slightly uncomfortable. Though I think that if I spent more time in a culture where that was the norm, I'd be okay with it, just takes some getting used to.