An IFTAR to remember...

Till now my iftars have been pretty boring!!! They are either at home on my own or in Ehab's company (my new Egyptian house mate), in Carrefour, Pizza Hut or Mc Donalds!!! Today I did it in a different way!! Although I was dead tired and wanted to use my 3hr iftar to sleep it did not take me long to say yes when Dr Ahmed (my boss and owner of the school) invited me out for iftar with some members of the staff mainly the 3 other managers of the center. The 1st surprise was that we were to go out of Alex in a little village called Kafr id-Dawwar (do not ask me where!!! I just know its out of Alex), which was really tiny though very traditional village. We ate in 'house' restaurant which was very traditional and it a way reminded me of those places where we go and eat rabbit in Malta!!

The meal was amazing!!! We had the usual Egyptian stuff, such as tehina, homos, baba ganug etc etc, soup, molokeja (horrible green slimy thing), okra, and main dish all the grilled meat in the world!! You had a choice of chicken, duck, rabbit, kofta, kebab. I feasted myself on a big piece of duck!! It was delicious!! Then we ended the meal with Konefa (traditional Ramadan sweet) and tea. The women then went to the Mosque to pray, while I hung out with the men. It was great fun!! The people were very nice too, and a good laugh!!!

Once again it was remarkable to see the way the food is right in front of you just a couple of minutes before the mosque calls out and then you start attacking your food!!!!

After the massive meal everyone was dead tired!!! At 6.30 we were all contemplating whether we should bother going back to Alex to open the Center (which had to be open by 6.45) or not!!

I stated that I would give everyone the day off, including Dr Ahmed, but that did not work out too well!!!!!