maandag 19 oktober 2009

arrival

hi everyone
i found a very shabby looking internetcafe zith an arabic keyboard in qwerty, so please be gentle if i type a lot of faults
yesterday mt airplane left an hour too late from brussels, because an arabic family from 5 persons had checked in their luggage under the name of a person zho who was not travelling with them, so the airplane crew thught that a man had left 5 trunks in the plane without showing up hi;self... very suspicious it took an hour to find out about the family then, when we arrived in cairo, the plane had to circle in the air for another 30 minutes, becaues there was something wrong with a landing platform at the airport very comforting all of this
when we got out of the plane, our pasports were cheched, webought a visum, and when we had our luggage, a man came too us to propose a taxi we followed him gratefully, but after a moment he led us to a duty free shop, and he asked quentin to come with him, and i, as the woman, had to stay and guard the luggage they both zent into the duty free shop it turned out that quentin was buying him some liquour, sice the man as an arabic and airport employee was not allowed to do so haha our first encunter of egyptian hypocrisy wonderful
after that we toolk a wild taxi to the hotel, and we checked the surroundings a lots of cats on the street, smog filling your lungs, dirt on the streets and you cant walk on the pedestrian zones, because they are so dirty everyone walks on the road and the cars toot all the time the egyptians came to talk to us immediately, and before we knew, we were drinking pepsi in a silly souvenir shop with a man who tried to sell us some very nasty papyri he said he was an egyptologist i really had to hold my tongue hehe
in the evening we ate at a restaurant where all the waiters speak in the language for the deaf, so with their hands, it was to employ deaf people i thik it was very nice

i have to go now, the internetcafe is much too hot i will write about today very soon

bye bye

1 opmerking:

  1. That restaurant is famous! The manager studied at Gallaudet University in America, where only sign language is used, and when he came back to Egypt, he started up a restaurant to give work to deaf people :) Only his assistant is hearing (for telephone calls and such).

    I didn't know Cairo was thàt dirty!

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