Cairo,
Egypt
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
It was another tour in Egypt I went to. As always, I was taking pictures of the guests under the pyramids and then the Sphinx. There was this local girl, maybe 12-year-old, that was selling some jewellery or something. She was trying to pay my attention, but I was just struggling to manage with the time and shoot as many guests under the Sphinx as possible. And she kept asking:"whats your name, what`s your name, what`s your name?". At the same time she covered with her hand my camera`s flash a few times so I had to repeat the picture. I said to her: "You see - you`re working, but I am working as well. Lets not give a hard time to each other and let me do my job, huh?. But she wouldn`t listen. She kept asking "whats your name" and when she tried to cover my flash again, I couldn`t hold myself any longer and blew up: "My name is OFF, F*** OFF!!!". It worked, she walked away. I have no idea where did it come from. Later on I felt really bad for the girl. She might have been forced by her parents to sell souvenirs in front of the pyramids, I looked exotic to her so she tried to pay my attention. And "what`s your name" was probably the only English words she knew. From the other hand, I gave her a chance. One of the guests said to me, after I was trying to explain what happened:"I thought it was wonderful!"
We headed to the Nile river where we... had our lunch. We hopped on the boats and watched the shows the locals prepared for us. Especially the guy spinning the circle was pretty damn amazing.
If not the morning accident, the tour would have been wonderful, but oh well. I`d been to the pyramids at least 3 or 4 times by then and started getting bored as well. Thank God I was sent to differet tours all the time.
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