Goodbye Mohandeseen
Like so many other trainees that have graced Cairo, I will soon be homeless.
Not sure what it is about this place. It’s like getting evicted is a rite of passage and I would go as far as to say that your Egyptian experience won’t be complete unless you actually have to go through the struggle that is finding a place to live.
The details as to why we were evicted are a bit unclear. Apparently the police were called because of noise…the landlord didn’t take too kindly to that. Plus, the landlady was in last week and didn’t like how the place was being maintained, so she got a little upset. The final nail was the co-ed nature of our guests. We had asked the landlord if girls would be allowed to come over and he said it was fine. Not anymore, I guess.
Ironically, I will back to where I started with regards to my living situation prior to arriving in Cairo. Tom and Megan are also homeless, so we’ll be shacking up somewhere downtown, inshallah.
posted by kent @ 9:39 a.m.
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That's exciting! All the more adventure, right, Kent?
At least you're not homeless in Calgary. People are freezing to death on the streets. They've opened a homeless shelter in the Roundup Centre on the stampede grounds.
Maybe Tom and Megan could move in there.
Oops, perhaps not a male and female.
i know how u feel, finding a place in egypt is always an adventure, this is my third time doing it...
Perhaps, just perhaps, other than your homelessness, you might have it better than your brother. Yes, your one and only brother, who is at UBC in usually sub-tropical Vancouver, BC.
The entire city and its burbs have recently been subjected to a string of serious storms. Horrendous wind and rainstorms with flooding and lengthy power outages resulted in a boil water advisory for something like 10 days (no coffee in Van). Then this past weekend they got a foot of snow, more power outages, more wind and now temps well below freezing.
Tropical Victoria sold their snow clearing equipment to Vancouver a few years ago. So when they got a major dump of snow they simply shut down transit.
The entire province is in a serious cold snap. The Okanagan (even Osoyoos) has wind chill temps of -24 or colder. We woke up to -21 this morning. No wind at our house, but its howling in town.
How the homeless are coping is a major item on the news.
But there is an upside, which is also a major news story. Grapes for ice wine are able to be picked. They usually have to pick the frozen grapes at night because they have to remain frozen. However now are able to pick during the day. Happy days.
Do you feel any better?
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