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Open Your Eyes!

I'm starting this blog a little bit late, after exaclty 4 months of traineeship and lots of things going on, lots of stories to tell, pictures to see, thoughts to share, but as usual no structure in my mind sooo... get used to out of a sudden flashes of my experience and... Open Your Eyes!

Wow! I'm freezing in my office but people are freezing back home too... I just saw pictures with the Black See as white as ice, literrarly, completely solid as I've never seen it before... and I don't know how I ended up being far away in a warm country exactly this winter... here are +20 as compared to the -20C that Romanians are acing right now... bbbrrrrrrr....

Well, things to tell, right? I forgot the normal notion of week-end, or what non-workoholics would call week-end back in Europe, coz here I work all Sundays and nowadays even Saturdays... I wanted more responsibility? Well I got it and I don't feel it... I realize now that Im never satisfied at my work here in Cairo, I was demanding ever since the begginning, always wanted something else than have and the situation hasn't changed in 4 months of work. Now I want a raise! And I want my coleagues to understand the notion of doing what they are asked to and to answer when they are supposed to and to be honest and not to supposed that much and not to be such children in the working place. I hate getting no for an answer, and in this country, I don't know how it ahppenned, but I keep getting that, although I'm trying hard to get thier way of thinking. But it seems that I still have a looong way ahead! Keep walking!

People... is a general term, it goes for coleagues, for other egyptians... for all kind of men's faces on the street wispering or shouting "moza moza helwa amr... muah muah...", it goes for @members who have a "persona non grata" status in my heart around here because they are very much kids - as all the others - and they don't know how to balance and how to be sensitive... instead we have to be for them too, we the others, who are also people :-) it goes for trainees, from all over the world, it goes for half nationalities, it goes for best friends and for new close ones, it goes for flat mates and for others in my life. I have tons to say about that, but I will try to limit myself to a sentence about each:

coleagues: a7a!!! on what world do they live? they work an averrage of 29minutes / day and the most educated ones... the ones with whom I work, are so smart as to always find a reason to be busy or tired and they say it in a way that you don't always find a reply on the spot... and you just stay there painted with your stupid european look of workoholic in distress.... (I couldn't help myself, too many months have past like this, couldn't say it in one sentence)

"ahua ppl"(the egyptians with the moza lines): drewling

@members: they need to learn how to take responsibility and how to enjoy doing it

trainees: are the best bunch of internationals I could have met here and teh most diverse (americans tend to be too many sometimes, but then they dissapear and it balances)

half nationalities: greek-egyptian; egyptian-bahreini; german-italian-french; portuguese-jamaican; britich-french; polish-russian; and so on... romanian-congoleze also to have the complete picture.

best friends: leaving

new close ones: some of the most amazing persons I've ever met: brazilian, portuguese, polish, greek, portuguese again, indian, thai, portuguese again ;-)

flatmates: comming and going

others: passengers, people who started as something and ended up as something else, undecided...

Ok! Khallas! for the first time, this is enough! Keep your eyes open for other experiences!

a smile for you... a snapshot of a smile of mine... close your eyes now! yalla bye bye