Still
Alive

Yeap, although its been a long time
since I have updated this log, I am still alive!!!! 

Not too much has really happened in
these past few days.  I am really proud to say that I am finally getting
used to the place, I am catching trams, crossing the road very confidently,
fighting with taxi drivers who charge me a very high price just cause I'm light
skinned and have colored eyes!!!  I have also learnt where to go to the
beach, and not depend on other people who either have a beach house or have
passes to some nice beach out of Alex!!!!  Although I got a big jelly fish
sting on my arm that looks like a Harry Potter mark in this beach, it is still
my favorite summer hangout!!! Can you imagine lying on the beach with waiters
coming to serve you, having a towel and a deck chair, having body guards
protecting you from the random Egyptians which escape from the public beaches as
well as having a good meal of Lebanese mezzah and calamari for only 50 Egyptian
pounds which translates to approximately seven euros and Lm3.50!!!!

I have also done my first shopping
of clothes and shoes!!!! yeahh even though it takes me ages to translate the
Arabic written numbers into English numbers....

The Americans are doing fine too!!!
One of them has already left and almost all are going to leave at the end of
this month!!! Its cool in a way cause there will finally be some peace and quiet
in the house, but I will miss they terribly! they are such great fun, also when
they leave it means that I will have to move, and that is a nightmare!!! I don't
want to move again!!!  Hopefully, fingers crossed, it will only be a matter
of moving up 10 floors but I am not too sure of that!! Finding accommodation in
Alex is a nightmare, there is no advertising or website, its just a matter of
who know who and who knows what is available!!! so I really have to depend on
other people.  Lets hope the flat upstairs works out, though it definitely
needs some fixing up big time!!!!!

Finally I learnt all the Arabic
alphabet!!! it took me two to three lessons of 3 hours each to finally get the
whole alphabet!! but now I finally can!! so that means I get to read some work
and pronounce them 'sort of properly'!!!

That is all the update from me for
now have to get off the computer now!!!! At work they have just installed ADSL
on all the computers which allows me to do some illegal chatting and mail
checking every now and then!!!