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21 avril 2011

All my people on the floor...

Now, you may wonder what happened after my trip to Mount Sinai – or not. Well, I’ll tell you anyway. As Mubarak resigned and things started to get back to normal in Cairo, our school reopened. Isabelle, my flatmate, came back from Canada on Friday 25...

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8 avril 2011

There's always gonna be another mountain...

So where was I ?... Oh Yes, our trip to Dahab! What a great experience… When we arrived at our hotel on Tuesday 8 February, there were about ten guests, it felt like we had the whole place to ourselves… Because of what was happening in Cairo, tourists...

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18 novembre 2010

If we took a holiday...

I’ve just come back from fantastic holidays in the Western desert, between Egypt and Libya. Marie, Marie-Christine, Mario and I started with El Alamein – where the Second World War famous battle took place. All the cemeteries and battle remains are quite...

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Tags: colleague, meal, happy, visit, sport, desert, holiday

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19 juin 2011

Les sirènes du port d'Alexandrie...

In my desperate attempt to see everything I can in Egypt before I f*** off for good – oh yes, I can’t wait! – Marie-Eve, Mario and I went to Alexandria last weekend, as none of us had ever been there and it’s meant to be a cool Egyptian city... Well at...

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7 juin 2011

I'm just a gigolo and everywhere I go...

Over the Easter holidays, my mother came to visit. I was really happy to see her and looking forward to our planned holiday cruise on the Nile for the next five days. When she first arrived in Cairo, I took her to a silver shop where many of my colleagues...

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7 janvier 2011

Just don't let the good life pass you by...

Hey ! First of all, a very happy new year to you all! I hope you had a great time over the holidays. Ok, I haven’t written for ages but my life was rather dull at the end of last year… After my funky trip to the Western Desert, I only spent another weekend...

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8 septembre 2010

It's Oh so quiet...

The last days have been very quiet, as I've been attending inset days at my new school... Well, looking back at all the adventures I had, I guess this is not a bad thing that my life's not as eventful at the moment. I'm really scared about this school...

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5 mars 2011

I've got soul but I'm not a soldier...

Hello everyone This one should be quite long, as I have not written for a while and a lot has happened since my last post, as you may have heard on the news – unless you were hibernating or you are just plain sh*t. Everything started on Tuesday 25 January....

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Tags: fml, nightmare, wtf, flat, meal, fame, holiday, crisis, scary

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26 août 2010

First I was afraid, I was petrified...

Today, I was on a mission, or rather the school sent me on a mission: finding a flat! (What?! I've litterally just turned up in this country!). In order to help me out, they provided me with a lovely guy (Mahmoud) whose job remains a bit obscure... Are...

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27 août 2010

And I would run away...

Today I woke up with an urge to go to the loo and thought "Shit! - (what an unfortunate thing to say!) - I've been here for 36h and already have the runs... Great!" I checked online and I didn't seem to have the symptoms of the "turista", but I wasn't...

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Tags: fml, flat, colleague, disease, meal, revenge, stomach

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8 novembre 2010

If I could turn back time...

Yesterday morning, I was picking up my laundry from the rack outside my window, when I dropped a pair of funky boxer shorts – you know, the silvery silky ones – which happened to end up on my downstairs neighbour’s rack. I was facing a dilemma: going...

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16 octobre 2010

And it feels like I'm seventeen again...

Ok, I have been pretty lazy lately, I haven’t written here for ages. Sorry about this. I have found that in this country you tend to have mood swings every other day. Sometimes you just feel you are having the time of your life, and sometimes the only...

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26 août 2010

One Way Ticket

What a start to my Egyptian life!!! 1.30am - landing in Cairo 1.40am - the customs guy takes my passport away and asks me to wait in a waiting area 1.50am - want to cry 2.00am - think about my suitcases going round and round on the belt, ownerless 2.10am...

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Tags: arrival, fml, nightmare, passport, suitcase, wtf

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31 août 2010

Without you I'm nothing...

Ok, today I was on a mission - yes, another one! I really wanted to clean my flat in order to settle in properly and really feel at home. I went to the local market and bought lots of cleaning products. By twelve, there I was, scrubbing and washing. I...

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29 août 2010

Why does it always rain on me?...

Ok, I just want to cry right now! Mahmoud called me this morning (Aww, I knew he couldn't stay away for long!) and asked whether I had signed the contract for the flat I saw last night and whether I had paid the deposit. Which I both did. He then told...

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3 septembre 2010

That's not my name...

Sorry about the last three days of silence but something crazy happened to me! Yes, again! You remember how on Wednesday I was supposed to go to school for the first time in order to attend the first of a very long series of inset days with my fellow...

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Tags: fml, fame, school, shame, sick

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31 août 2010

Walk like an Egyptian...

Yes! Score! Yesterday, two - yes, TWO! - Egyptians came to me in the street and asked for directions in Arabic. Can you believe it?! I'm definitely part of this city, I look like one of them! So cool!... Well, maybe not... It might keep me safe from tourist...

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17 juin 2011

It sucks to be me...

Now, the day my mother left, I realised how shit life is to me... Oh no, not because she left and I was sad about it, but because I had a “domestic accident” on the very same night she had just gone, and God knows I could have done with someone being...

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29 août 2010

Where do broken hearts go?...

Today was a very busy day... No, I didn't spend the day in the toilet, and yes, I'm feeling much better, thanks for asking! I guess my body got used to tap water and street food, yeah! We'll have to see about strangers in bars now!... Anyway, it all started...

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13 septembre 2010

Sweet dreams are made of this...

Last weekend has been quite nice: on Friday, Marie-Eve, Mario and I went to a hotel for a bit of sunbathing around a pool. Oh yes, you might wonder why the hell we went to a hotel for this... Well, just because in Cairo, there’s no such thing as a local...

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30 septembre 2010

Let's get physical...

Last Monday evening, I went to a spinning class with Isabelle and Mario, as I had not exercised since I arrived in Cairo and started to feel my belly touching my toes. At the time it sounded like a great idea. I don't know if anyone here has ever attended...

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4 septembre 2010

Come fill my little world, right up...

Today I woke up, went to the bathroom, turned the tap on and... no water! I ran to the kitchen, same deal! I randomly first thought I was lucky enough to have a lanlord who just didn't find it a good idea to pay for the water while the flat was vacant......

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20 septembre 2010

Boys, boys, boys...

For once, I'm not going to talk about me, but about some of my female colleagues, who have had the most peculiar experiences since they arrived in Cairo. You remember when I said in a previous post that Egyptian men are just frustrated and desperate for...

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