Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

My trip to Cairo (details soon)

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:47:37 -0400

My trip to Cairo (details soon)

Great video of the Egyptian coast, not be confused with the L.A....

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:36:52 -0400

Great video of the Egyptian coast, not be confused with the L.A. Coast lol. Thanks to my cousin for sharing it with me!

Morsi Wins!My point of view in Alexandria at Raml Station of the...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:34:31 -0400

Morsi Wins!
My point of view in Alexandria at Raml Station of the day that Mohamed Morsi won the Egyptian Presidential Election.

Morsi Wins!My point of view in Alexandria at Raml Station of the...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:33:12 -0400

Morsi Wins!
My point of view in Alexandria at Raml Station of the day that Mohamed Morsi won the Egyptian Presidential Election.

Entry Dos

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:24:42 -0400

So Ive been here for over a month now and Ive seen a lot. Ive experienced a lot and I will take away so many memories from my stay here. I’ll admit Ive been pretty lazy in writing entries, and I feel kind of bad because its something that I should have been documenting as I went along. But I will try to write down everything that I can remember.

One thing I would like to start this entry off with is the heavy neglect in this country, not only by the government, but by the people too, its just a shame. After my last entry, my parents and I had finally gone out to the center of Alexandria. I was kind of shocked at what I saw. It wasn’t the clean-cut nice city that I remembered as a kid, it was ridden with trash, stray anmials all about, and vendors on the curbs of street, so much that not even people could walk and drivers could drive. I was honestly very disappointed. After the revolution (January 25, 2011) many of the vendors took advantage of the fact that the government didn’t care to regulate the streets (as a result of the revolution), they paid no taxes, stole water and electricity from near by buildings and had no regard for the people walking or driving; anything to make a buck. But then again its not their fault, after years and years of a terrible regime that offered no jobs or benefits for poor people, its their only choice. But there was good news, on June 24 the new president of Egypt was officially decided by the Egyptian people. Mohamed Morsi is now the new president of Egypt, that day was an INCREDIBLY momentous day for Egyptian citizens. After hearing the news my family was bursting with happiness and I saw more hope in their eyes than I did when I first saw them this summer. Night came and my uncle decided to take me out to see the celebration and happiness of everyone in Alexandria. Raml Station was literally the equivalent of Cairo’s Tahrir Square, EVERYONE in sight had a flag waving and banners with the new president’s face on it. Traffic was horrible, there were horns honking everywhere, people yelling, but despite all of that, there was triumph and hope for a brighter future lingering in the air. It was absolutely exhilarating to be there and actually take place in a part of history. In the following post is my point of view of Raml Station as we drove through the ecstatic crowds…

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This is a video that my one of my cousin’s friends...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:11:00 -0400

This is a video that my one of my cousin’s friends made…emphasizes the fact that Egypt isn’t all sand, pyramids, camels, and ruins.

Cairo 6/20/12

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:53:00 -0400

Cairo 6/20/12

Entry Uno: Sigh...

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:47:00 -0400

Well here goes, I’m not the best writer so if you’re reading this, please bear with me, and I apologize if it ever gets boring. I am currently on vacation with my parents to visit my family in Egypt, its been about a week since I’ve been here but we just got internet about 3 days ago in our apartment, so I’ve been AWOL on all of my social networking sites including tumblr. I’ve never been the documenting kind of person, besides the occasional picture here and there, but I was never one to write down things - or in this case, type - so this is new to me. I was recently talking to a good friend of mine and she said that I should blog my experience here. Taking this into consideration and my mom’s constant nagging that she wants me to write, I thought it would be a good idea. So here it is, my first entry…in my next one I probably should write about what has happened in the past week…so guess I’ll get on that…

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