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A few misunderstandings
... recruiting agent, to ask if I can work from midday today. Like all Fridays in Tahrir, peaceful protests are going on, so being a foreigner I keep my head down and don’t hang around too long crossing the square to get to the metro entrances. Typically every entrance I try seems to be shut and I find myself skirting the edge of proceedings, when a smiling old gent in a cream suit pops up out of nowhere asking where I’m trying to get to. At my response, he ...
Hellooo Cairo
... huge tropical leaves, where the bawaabs (doormen) sit outside the apartments on the streets singing to themselves and chatting lazily, and you wouldn't be surprised if Mowgli jumped out of a tree, I couldn't believe my luck in having been invited to take up a room here. Was even more chuffed to see the airy, spacious apartment that an english student loan can get you here!
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A little help
... who I’d taken as Ahmed’s mother and too exhausted to do anything else I agreed and we piled into a small sedan with Ahmed’s brother Mohamed driving, his father in the passenger seat and Ahmed, his mother and I in the backseat. I remember tiredly thinking that if these friendly people were serial killers I really hoped that they’d feed me first.
One thing I was certainly not ready for was the roads of Cairo. Now I’ve been to India and I ...
Daily Topic About Egypt
... works of art. In day-to-day writing, scribes used a cursive form of writing, called hieratic, which was quicker and easier. While formal hieroglyphs may be read in rows or columns in either direction (though typically written from right to left), hieratic was always written from right to left, usually in horizontal rows. A new ...
Cairo, Giza, Aswan, Luxor & Dahab Egypt
... it was spectacular, we came down the first time about 50 minutes into the flight but landed in a sugar cane field so they asked the pilot to go back up and land near a road so we could be picked up, so up we went, then it got windy and the wind carried us for almost an hour in the wrong direction, our balloon wouldn’t land so he tossed down a rope and they tried to pull us down and failed twice, so we ended up getting over 2 hours in the air till we could land safely it was ...