I meet with one of my best friends and we decided to make a visit to my favourite hairdresser in Adayeik El Haram. While we were inside we had the opportunity to have a small conversation with a new russian bellydancer. I can say that she was not a real sympathetic person but beautiful.
After this small meeting J me and my friend went for owr Koshery dinner, you can imagine a very cheap place with mans only with two foreigns entering inside with no problems asking for koshery and drinks in Arabic. They stood still, literaly I had to tell them to move, we were ungry.
The cofee shoop was only 100 meters away from this Koshery place, and we stayed there for at least 3 hours, smoking shisha and drinking tea. This coffee shop is the only one I like to go, because is empty, no mans around , hidden and I can enjoy a reall egyptian shisha and tea.
In the traditional coffee shops in egypt no womens are inside, this is not a costume among the girls. They perfer to go to fast food restaurants.
Changes
Two years ago, if anyone told me that the area I live in will have gardens , I will tell them their were joking.But I was wrong, everyday new changes are coming and I know the reason beind that THE NEW EGYPTIAN MUSEUM.
Because of this, the area is becoming more expensive and untill now they only took the sand from the place where the museum will be build, no construction has started , you only can see the huge statue of ramses brought from Ramsis Square.
I wonder after how many years the museum will open and how expensive this area will be??
Because of this, the area is becoming more expensive and untill now they only took the sand from the place where the museum will be build, no construction has started , you only can see the huge statue of ramses brought from Ramsis Square.
I wonder after how many years the museum will open and how expensive this area will be??
The never ending questions?
This society EGYPTIAN, cares to much about each other lifes, they actually want to know everything, I mean EVERYTHING, and if your answer or your life does not go with they standards you must have an answer for that.
I have a girl friend who is divorced and lives with her two children alone, an egyptian in a dinner we were having, asked her why she was not married again. She only told him “ I do not want”, his answer or remark was “ I see you want to be free to do what you want” , he said this in such a sarcastic way , that her answer was “ maybe , but not with you or anyone like you” he stand up look at her with hate and left.
Everyone asks me “ Why you do not have children?” , I always try to answer that did not happen , one day it will. But for reasons that sometimes I understand ( in egypt any married women should have a baby by the end of the first year of marriage), others I do not ( is not their business), I do not fell that my life should be ruled by others in any way.
The issue is that this questions ( constantly) drains you and its really tiring.
What is your religion??? Another question that drives me crazy, I alwyas answer christian. Everytime I say this they say, “ well you can change its best for you, and so on.
What are you doing here? Why you work? Why , why , why never ends, this can give you a picture. Sometimes you can really fell that your are answering a daily quetionnaire.
I have a girl friend who is divorced and lives with her two children alone, an egyptian in a dinner we were having, asked her why she was not married again. She only told him “ I do not want”, his answer or remark was “ I see you want to be free to do what you want” , he said this in such a sarcastic way , that her answer was “ maybe , but not with you or anyone like you” he stand up look at her with hate and left.
Everyone asks me “ Why you do not have children?” , I always try to answer that did not happen , one day it will. But for reasons that sometimes I understand ( in egypt any married women should have a baby by the end of the first year of marriage), others I do not ( is not their business), I do not fell that my life should be ruled by others in any way.
The issue is that this questions ( constantly) drains you and its really tiring.
What is your religion??? Another question that drives me crazy, I alwyas answer christian. Everytime I say this they say, “ well you can change its best for you, and so on.
What are you doing here? Why you work? Why , why , why never ends, this can give you a picture. Sometimes you can really fell that your are answering a daily quetionnaire.
Singapore Cruze
I have been contacted for many events, one of them was a cruze between Egypt and Singapore, to teach and perform.
After thinking a lot, because I have more invitations , I decided that this one did not came in the wright time. The big issue was to organize events at the same time which I could not do so. At least I would stay 20 days in the Ocean, so it means that even if I wanted to coordinate other invitations for the same time, that would not happen. The organization for an event or travel can not come to me with only two months of notice.
After thinking a lot, because I have more invitations , I decided that this one did not came in the wright time. The big issue was to organize events at the same time which I could not do so. At least I would stay 20 days in the Ocean, so it means that even if I wanted to coordinate other invitations for the same time, that would not happen. The organization for an event or travel can not come to me with only two months of notice.
Cabaret ...............The Movie
I saw CABARET at least five times, and yes I do love it. Actually, I think it as a good script and captures one face of Egyptian night life.
I know that many disagree with me, but everyone has the right to have they on opinions, and in my point of view I believe the producers were really soft when they did the movie.
The fact that many use bellydance for prostition is not new for anyone, in fact any girl who is a prostitute in Egypt must have a lot of customers, of course they are not real bellydancers, but the issue is that they spread a black side to the ones who are trying to be a dancer and at the same time to be respected.
In a society that only the word bellydancer, means that a woman is not a person who deserves any kind of respect, who is not invited by “good families” to mingle in a social enviroment “ I am not speaking going out to parties” to be in a dinner with an Egyptian family, because she is not a good example for other girls who are respected. This shows what a dancer bares everyday to persue her carrier.
Going back to the movie, it startes with normal people getting ready for work , in this case to work in the cabaret. The first one is a devoted muslam man, who goes to pray before taking the micro bus to work, than there is a girl who takes care of her sick mother at home ( they are poor, really poor) and she works as a prostitute at night and her mother does not know, actually she loses her mother while she is working and the neigbors go to the cabaret to tell her “ your mother is outside in the car , she is dead”, she goes outside and the mans tell her to cover her body, she runs desperately to find something inside the Cabaret to cover herself, and she dies inside in the explosion.
This is only a short version from the movie, if you have the opportunity to see the movie do it, even if you do not understand arabic.ITS GREAT
I know that many disagree with me, but everyone has the right to have they on opinions, and in my point of view I believe the producers were really soft when they did the movie.
The fact that many use bellydance for prostition is not new for anyone, in fact any girl who is a prostitute in Egypt must have a lot of customers, of course they are not real bellydancers, but the issue is that they spread a black side to the ones who are trying to be a dancer and at the same time to be respected.
In a society that only the word bellydancer, means that a woman is not a person who deserves any kind of respect, who is not invited by “good families” to mingle in a social enviroment “ I am not speaking going out to parties” to be in a dinner with an Egyptian family, because she is not a good example for other girls who are respected. This shows what a dancer bares everyday to persue her carrier.
Going back to the movie, it startes with normal people getting ready for work , in this case to work in the cabaret. The first one is a devoted muslam man, who goes to pray before taking the micro bus to work, than there is a girl who takes care of her sick mother at home ( they are poor, really poor) and she works as a prostitute at night and her mother does not know, actually she loses her mother while she is working and the neigbors go to the cabaret to tell her “ your mother is outside in the car , she is dead”, she goes outside and the mans tell her to cover her body, she runs desperately to find something inside the Cabaret to cover herself, and she dies inside in the explosion.
This is only a short version from the movie, if you have the opportunity to see the movie do it, even if you do not understand arabic.ITS GREAT
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