The cat under the bed...

What better way to start the day, than with a nice shower. Well, actually there are many, but it sure is nice. Anyway, I woke up and tried to have a shower, by firstly plugging in the boiler. The moment I plugged it in, it made a nice little puff! and smoke starting coming out. It take me long to realize that I had to take it out and so did I (less than a second ;) ).

Anyway, it was hot enough outside to actually enjoy a cold bath.

After that, my friend Ezz came, and we toured around Cairo!
While on that, Ezz told some really great news, that he got elected as an LCVP TM in his LC, and some bad news, that he lost his cat.

After seeing Downtown Cairo, we went to his place in which we found his cat, Carlos, who was trapped under his brother's bed! (His brother is in Netherlands)

After that, we had some homemade Egyptian food!
Really awesome!

After that we went to another Greek intern's place, and sat there until half past one.

Then we drived home.


Funny story:
Along with Argyro, the Greek intern, lives a Pakistani guy, but he rarely is at home.

Well, this guy, turned up to my place and slept here.

Strange world...

Lunar eclipse in Wonderland

Waking up around 5 o'clock, telling the mexican guy (Ivan) to close the shutters...and one of them broke and started a great fall from the sixth floor!
Luckily, Ivan grabbed it and in same time I jumped next to him and pulled it inside...some way to start the day.

Around 11 everyone woke up and started our day...with a near-explosion expirience!

Someone left the boiler on and is ready to explode! Steam and water where puffing out!
I unplugged it and turned on the hot water, just to relieve the pressure...it worked but now it's dripping...
And we cannot flush the toilet...
And there is no tap water in there...

We hope that soon everything will be fixed...

After that, I took a shower and put on some clothes...
It took me a while to realize that I had forgoten my belt in Greece..well, can't do anything for that now..

Anyway...we took off around 13:00 to explore the area, get some breakfast and things for home...

The Pakistani, Zohaib, said we should go to Wandermall to get stuff, a new belt for me, and breakfast...

We walked...
and walked...
...
still walking...

And we found  a Vodafone!!!

That's how I returned to (social) life!
I got internet (you know, that little USB sticks) for about 30 euros and I am sharring it with Ivan.
Ringo and Stan (the guys from Hong Kong) took another one...

After that we got to a burger place, in which I got a pepsi because I felt the first signs of dehydration...It kept me for a while, but I started to Feel a little Dizzy until we got to the mall...Later on we learned that the true name is Wonderland.

Anyway, we got there, got some food, burgers with fries and a coce for 3-4 euros, and then I got a new belt...I think that the guy there ripped me off, since I didn't bargain, but still it is cheap for greek prices ;)

After that, we bought some stuff for home (and a hand soap, which I still cannot find).
We took a taxi home which was supposed to have a meter, but the taxi driver said it was broken.
After a long search for our street (noone knew the place) we got home...and I experienced the Pakistani proving his bargaining skills!

That happend around 15:00.

At 18:30 Lina, the girl responsible for the project, was supposed tocome and take us to go to a place, we where not sure where it was...

And she came...at 20:30 with a girl that just arrived from Poland!

We went to the house of the man that will arrange all the trainings for us and also give us few lessons as supposed by the program.

We watch the Lunar Eclipse, from the roof of is house, where I met many interesting people!

I met every intern in my project and also a ship engineer that was in Greece for 3 years adn spoke some greek. He know works in Egypt for Vardinogiannis.

Everyone had brought some food along, so we ate a lot of different stuff, fron pizzas ( I am living the diversity)  to Hong Kong food (told you so).

After the eclipse, while the party was going to an end, they put some big rags on the roof...and around 30 to 40 muslims started praying!!!

It's the first time I see something like that happening live, less than two meters away!

Really nice experience...

After that we came home and here I am!


So, because I had some fun today I'll give you the results of a research I did about the classification of driving behaviour.
And the results are:
Expert driver
Good driver
Medium driver
Bad driver
Average greek driver
Crazy driver
Average Italian driver
Dangerous driver
Average Bulgarian driver
Video-game-like driver
GTA driver
Fast and Furious driver
The Dukes of Hazard driver
I don't care about my life driver

Empty spot

Average (ok every) Egyptian driver!

Arrival on Tatooine

Well...if not Tuesday then Wednesday...

Well...I arrived at the airport at 18:30 and the sun was setting at that time, butbecause of the dust, it wasjust a perfect red circle...like the setting suns on Tatooine.

I got my visa (100 L.E.) and entered Egypt officialy!

I passed through a great crowd of taxi drivers trying to get a customer. Luckily I was quick to find (spot check DC 10 rolled 18) an AIESECer which turned out to be the LCP of AIESEC AUC.

We waited for two hours for two more interns, a girl from Colombia and a guy from Mexico, and then we went to a party with many interns!

I should say, that before the party,we stopped to a place that selled fresh juice from many fruits and we drank juice from sugar-cane!!!It was cheaper than water and tasted great!

So, after the party we got home, which is located on the sixth floor of a building. Luckily there was no elevator and my suitcase was only 28 kg...

Well, I ended up sharing a bed with the mexican.

Last I should say that my roomies are one Mexican, one Pakistani and two guys from Hong Kong.

Things are getting interesting!

First Post

Hello world!

This is my first post, for my eXperience in Egypt!

Well...since it's the first post I'd better say a few things about this blog.

This blog will be my diary, journal, quest log or whatever you may wish to call it, and through here I'll describe my international internship experience in Egypt.

Right now I'm sitting at my desk in Greece, writing these first lines, while my stuff are almost packed and ready to go...

I really don't have anything more to say, so let's hope we meet again in a few days, a Tuesday evening...