Movements in the World and in the Mind
After a joyous couple of months, during which I was captured by surf and Sri Lankan chill, I had the warmest of receptions in Lowlands Country by both my dear friends Rick and Louis and the weather. Having spent last summer in Central America, experiencing long summer days with sunsets after 10 pm, which used... Continue Reading →
I am quite keen on finding out what the psychology is behind the expression 'the grass is always greener on the other side'. While temperatures have been increasing and I have heard through the grapevine that this month will be the hottest June on record, I am wondering if I should be playing outside somewhere... Continue Reading →
It's very very nice to be back in Lowlands Country for a longer period of time, it's been a while. I am mainly travelling between my home town where I stay at my sister's, who moved a few months ago from a funky city pad with park view to a single-family dwelling in a newly... Continue Reading →
The radio silence has had no specific reason. Laziness, refocusing, reorientation, homesickness, writers block, who's to say. Although I'd been a pretty bad student the last few weeks -if not months- of the course and I don't like routine, I miss the focus in my life that used to be studying Arabic at the centre.... Continue Reading →
To all you loyal readers, bless you lot, it has become quite clear that this country has surprised, angered and frustrated me on quite some occasions and the happy news is, it doesn't stop. Now, I find it quite a shame that my fashion of figure-hugging clothes is not really Egypt proof. There are women... Continue Reading →
Since my homey the Helms is very much in the known we get around a lot more then we used to. (F*cking typical that you tend to meet these people towards the end of your stay and not in the first few months but malesh, never mind). A few days ago the Helms took us,... Continue Reading →
Marriage is a very big deal in this country and across the Middle East. Many a single woman in her late 20's will experience increasing pressure to fulfil what for many is the reason why she has been put on this planet: being a wife and mother. And although marriage is considered such a milestone... Continue Reading →
A few days ago I attended my first Egyptian wedding. It was actually an engagement party, but quite extravagant in its execution, I'm wondering if this can be surpassed on the 'Big Day'. Half of the couple in question, Huda, is our classmate. She is half Austrian with an Egyptian father. We girls, Anna, Jameela,... Continue Reading →
I think you' re genuinely getting old when you start complaining about kids today and with 'kids' I don't mean teenagers'. I mean that lot that is about to graduate from uni. I'm telling you, they don't know how to party. The lot I hang out with are good students and good kids in the... Continue Reading →
So on Thursday I decided to go out with the girls, Anna and Jameela, who is now living with us. Nothing 'big', we went to see a film with friend Bee, who is a native Iskanderany. I hadn't been to the cinema for f*cking ages and I was rather excited at the prospect of watching... Continue Reading →
Dark Fairy Adventures 