Still Alive

Yeap, although its been a long time since I have updated this log, I am still alive!!!!

Not too much has really happened in these past few days. I am really proud to say that I am finally getting used to the place, I am catching trams, crossing the road very confidently, fighting with taxi drivers who charge me a very high price just cause I'm light skinned and have colored eyes!!! I have also learnt where to go to the beach, and not depend on other people who either have a beach house or have passes to some nice beach out of Alex!!!! Although I got a big jelly fish sting on my arm that looks like a Harry Potter mark in this beach, it is still my favorite summer hangout!!! Can you imagine lying on the beach with waiters coming to serve you, having a towel and a deck chair, having body guards protecting you from the random Egyptians which escape from the public beaches as well as having a good meal of Lebanese mezzah and calamari for only 50 Egyptian pounds which translates to approximately seven euros and Lm3.50!!!!

I have also done my first shopping of clothes and shoes!!!! yeahh even though it takes me ages to translate the Arabic written numbers into English numbers....

The Americans are doing fine too!!! One of them has already left and almost all are going to leave at the end of this month!!! Its cool in a way cause there will finally be some peace and quiet in the house, but I will miss they terribly! they are such great fun, also when they leave it means that I will have to move, and that is a nightmare!!! I don't want to move again!!! Hopefully, fingers crossed, it will only be a matter of moving up 10 floors but I am not too sure of that!! Finding accommodation in Alex is a nightmare, there is no advertising or website, its just a matter of who know who and who knows what is available!!! so I really have to depend on other people. Lets hope the flat upstairs works out, though it definitely needs some fixing up big time!!!!!

Finally I learnt all the Arabic alphabet!!! it took me two to three lessons of 3 hours each to finally get the whole alphabet!! but now I finally can!! so that means I get to read some work and pronounce them 'sort of properly'!!!

That is all the update from me for now have to get off the computer now!!!! At work they have just installed ADSL on all the computers which allows me to do some illegal chatting and mail checking every now and then!!!