Monday I visited a leftist daily and they were really nice and invited me to come back to spent some more time and gather information for my work. I'll see but I found it very interesting to talk to them and see their workconditions. After this I went to the university because it was close by but did not enter because it was very crowded and I did not really had something to do there. Besides I few hours later a had a meeting with a professor of the American University so I sat in a cafe and prepared for this.
Yesterday I was strolling around again after school and a meeting with a journalist of a business paper, had lunch in a small restaurant where I was surrounded by locals and ate Koshary, the Egyptian fast food consisting of noodles, rice, lentils, chickpeas, roasted onions and tomatoe sauce. Really tasty!
This artistic boy was too fast for my little mobile to focus - usually the wooden boxes are filled with bread. I really admire these guys because they manage to cycle in this crazy traffic even single-handed.
Sitting at a small square and having a cigarette I saw something I had read about only. Several merchants were selling clothes, shoes or ties, but obviously without having a permission to do so. All of a sudden, all of them started running because a small truck with police men stopped nearby. The police arrested them and took all their goods. One of the tie traders dropped as many ties as possible while they brought him to the car. His acquaintances, bread marketeers who were not bothered by the police, followed and collected the ties so not all goods were lost. After only five minutes the drama was over and people returned to their daily business.
Today I spent the afternoon and evening with the German girl I met a few days ago. We cooked and sat and talked and in the evening went to a concert with traditional arabic and nubian music. It was really impressive - mainly elder men and women played percussion instruments, sang and filled the beautiful room of Makan with an amazing atmosphere, very slow and quiet in the beginning and almost defeaning in the end. It gave me chills several times.
