Egypt

   What do I think about think about this country? Well, let's just say that the moment I set foot on it's sand  I wanted to hop back onto the plane and go back home (to the USA). The first place we went to when we got there was Alexandria since that's where my dad's family lives. The streets were filled with trash and pollution and  I almost vomited from the sight and smell of it. I don't know how I handled living there for a year and a half. People and cars filled the streets along with markets that had bugs crawling all over their fruits,vegetables, and meat. We lived in our cousin's condo until our house was ready and the tap water was so dirty that it was almost undrinkable.(Actually the water is like that all over Egypt which is why we bought a filter when we moved into our house.) Anyway, that month was terrible. We spent it visiting family members and travelling all over Alexandria. The heat and smell of the pollution made me feel car sick whenever I sat into a car.


  We moved into our house in the beginning of Oct. 2010 and then started school 2 weeks later. I was surprised by how my school looked like. I've never seen anything like it. It was basically an outdoor school that was shaped like a castle. I can' think of any other way to describe it.

                                                  This is a picture of the school that I went to.


  I didn't learn anything in school while I was there nor did I make any friends. I actually spent the leisure time I had in school thinking and writing. Speaking of freetime, people in Egypt only attend school for around 6 months a year since Summer vacation is 4 months long and Winter break is 2 months long.


   The climate in the desert is...well, desert like. The average temperature during the summer is somewhere between 40-50 degrees Celcius while the average winter temperature is between 11- 15 degrees. That may seem nice for a winter day in some countries, but in Egypt, everyone's teeth, including mine once I got used to the heat there, were chattering from the cold weather. The thing I found funny was that it rained so rarely that whenever it did rain, the people started panicking from it.


  That year and a half felt like a lifetime and I'm happy I'm not there anymore. I cried alot from homesickness when I was there. The fact that I'm not in the USA yet is true, but at least I'm in Europe and not in Africa. I can't wait until the day I move back home.

I did visit the pyramids with my family and believe it or not, there wasn't anything interesting about it except the fact that the city in which it was located in was by far one of the dirtiest cities I've seen in my life. This picture above is a photo I took when I was there. Ignore the date that is shown on the right side. My camera was messed up and showed the wrong date.

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