Life
in Alex

Life in Alex is great, I am
starting to get used to the city, the Egyptian men who stare at you when you
walk in the street, exploring on my own, and most importantly I am slowly
overcoming my fear of crossing the road.  a

I have finally got the
opportunity of eating fish in Alex!!!! It was the best meal I had had in ages!!! 
It is unbelievable.  Mongy (Egyptian, Ex AIESEC International director)
decided to take me out for fish.  We drove across town until we came to
this really dodgy place full of raw fish and fish still moving.  Mongy
leads me in and tells me to choose the fish I want to eat and how I wanted it
cooked!!!  I was really shocked and asked him if we were going to cook it
at home.  He started laughing but I was still a bit under shock so I chose
a couple of shrimps, calamari, a kilo or so of clams and this weird fish which
Mongy chose for me.  After that Mongy took me across the road where there
was a great restaurant with loads of people, fish all over the place.  It
was fantastic!!! It was really cool to go and choose your own fish and also
choose the way in which you wanted it cooked.  Something like 10mins later
the fish came.  It was divine!!! Anyone coming to visit me is to expect a
visit to this place.  hopefully by then I would have mastered the Arabic
language and could be able to communicate to the waiter on how I want the fish
cooked!!!!! a

After 3 weeks of pushing the
Center I have finally started Arabic classes!!!! It is harder than I thought, we
are also learning how to read it and write and guys believe me its not an easy
task!!! for me all the shapes of the letter look the same and I cannot really
find the difference between one and the other, especially when they are all
joined together in a word and look something like this

شىش هسةهىه
لإاثش

which means my name is Thea. 
There are quite a lot of similarities between the Egyptian language and Maltese,
my colleagues at work are always surprised at how much of their conversation I
understand!!!!!  He everyone wants to go to Malta to see how much they can
understand from our language!!!! a

On the whole all is fine!!! I am
getting on well with my house mates, thought the house is very often in a
disaster thanks to the guys who are always in our apartment!!!!!  you wake
up in the morning to find the living room full of pizza boxes, mc Donald
leftovers, glasses with vodka or beer remains and cigarette butts!!!  
Though I love them all very much in their different way and would not change
them for anything in the world!!! q

Work is also doing fine!!! 
Had a couple of little arguments with my bosses but nothing serious,  I
guess its culture and they are not used to a woman to stand up for her rights,
while I was not used to being submissive, so I guess it was culture shock both
ways!!