Egypt!!!
I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well actually I was back a week ago, but this computer is just so ridiculously amazing I couldn't get onto the computer!
Anyways...IT WAS GERT LUSH!!!
27 degrees most of the time, yummy food, amusing music and the best driving you are likely to see in a lifetime! xDD!
We went snorkelling in the Red Sea, that was amazing, there were so many beautiful fish! And to see them up close like that! It was great, but I sucked at using the snorkel thing itself and the flippers made the scar on my foot really red and sore!
I got molested by Egyptian men...it was really disturbing and made me feel really uncomfortable! One guy who was supposed to be teaching Theo scuba diving put his arm round me and kissed my shoulder!! It was gross and gave me the creeps, especially when he said, 'Hey beautiful! You come scube diving with me, I'll keep you safe!'.
Then another guy wanted me to come out to this evening coffee place at 11.30 p.m even when I said no and that I was with my parents, to which he responded that I should sneak out..
The rest of them were just sweet, but they all had this...'ritual', where they would stare at me for ages, ask what my name was, where I came from, how old I was, (to which when I said 16 they raised their eyes and smiled..which was disturbing), and then would say after a while...'Your beautiful'.
I got told that it was because my eyes were very blue especially as I had a tanned face, and they don't get that much so it was very special...supposedly, I found it more of a curse actually.
So did my younger brother Freddie, who has blonde hair and had it continually stroked by random Eygptians!
But I really hated that part of it, it was too touchy-feely for my liking, it just really un nerved me, and my dad had water in his ear which was painful so he couldn't hear anything whch sucked! The one time where I wouldn't mind him getting all protective and 'SHE'S MINE!! MY LITTLE GIRL!! HANDS OFF! *red shark face', he couldn't and didn't!!!
Towards the end, I would only go out if I was with my dad or my older brother Theo. I just wouldn't go by myself, and then I got used to it, which seems absurd now!!
If only they were asian...
Actually there was one asian guy who was about 16/17, but he had a bald patch glasses and spent his time sitting in the shade drawing naked women on his notebook...
HE WAS 'ARRRRRRRRRD!!!!
But there were no women around!! None! I only saw two local women and they were dressed head to foot in black. I guess it their culture.
It was a total culture shock though, and being back here its wierd to think of everything back there! We went to the market in the evening, and my mum, and sister and me had to wear something that covered our knees, ankles and shoulders as a sign of modesty.
Now...I don't mind, because I was in their culture, so I respected it, but inside I couldn't think how oppresive it was to women! Miss Knightly would have something to say about it I'm sure!
This speaker thing would sound out with the scriptures or something, I'm not sure, and they would get on their mats and start praying, and they did that 5 times a day!
Aside from the molestation, it was such an amazing holiday and the weather was beautiful and it was just what we all needed; a break from the specatacular never-the-same British weather!!
And I would put pictures up, but we have this stupid pop-up block thing that won't let me browse for them..alas!
Good to be back in this lovely weather with yummy work!
Well actually I was back a week ago, but this computer is just so ridiculously amazing I couldn't get onto the computer!
Anyways...IT WAS GERT LUSH!!!
27 degrees most of the time, yummy food, amusing music and the best driving you are likely to see in a lifetime! xDD!
We went snorkelling in the Red Sea, that was amazing, there were so many beautiful fish! And to see them up close like that! It was great, but I sucked at using the snorkel thing itself and the flippers made the scar on my foot really red and sore!
I got molested by Egyptian men...it was really disturbing and made me feel really uncomfortable! One guy who was supposed to be teaching Theo scuba diving put his arm round me and kissed my shoulder!! It was gross and gave me the creeps, especially when he said, 'Hey beautiful! You come scube diving with me, I'll keep you safe!'.
Then another guy wanted me to come out to this evening coffee place at 11.30 p.m even when I said no and that I was with my parents, to which he responded that I should sneak out..
The rest of them were just sweet, but they all had this...'ritual', where they would stare at me for ages, ask what my name was, where I came from, how old I was, (to which when I said 16 they raised their eyes and smiled..which was disturbing), and then would say after a while...'Your beautiful'.
I got told that it was because my eyes were very blue especially as I had a tanned face, and they don't get that much so it was very special...supposedly, I found it more of a curse actually.
So did my younger brother Freddie, who has blonde hair and had it continually stroked by random Eygptians!
But I really hated that part of it, it was too touchy-feely for my liking, it just really un nerved me, and my dad had water in his ear which was painful so he couldn't hear anything whch sucked! The one time where I wouldn't mind him getting all protective and 'SHE'S MINE!! MY LITTLE GIRL!! HANDS OFF! *red shark face', he couldn't and didn't!!!
Towards the end, I would only go out if I was with my dad or my older brother Theo. I just wouldn't go by myself, and then I got used to it, which seems absurd now!!
If only they were asian...
Actually there was one asian guy who was about 16/17, but he had a bald patch glasses and spent his time sitting in the shade drawing naked women on his notebook...
HE WAS 'ARRRRRRRRRD!!!!
But there were no women around!! None! I only saw two local women and they were dressed head to foot in black. I guess it their culture.
It was a total culture shock though, and being back here its wierd to think of everything back there! We went to the market in the evening, and my mum, and sister and me had to wear something that covered our knees, ankles and shoulders as a sign of modesty.
Now...I don't mind, because I was in their culture, so I respected it, but inside I couldn't think how oppresive it was to women! Miss Knightly would have something to say about it I'm sure!
This speaker thing would sound out with the scriptures or something, I'm not sure, and they would get on their mats and start praying, and they did that 5 times a day!
Aside from the molestation, it was such an amazing holiday and the weather was beautiful and it was just what we all needed; a break from the specatacular never-the-same British weather!!
And I would put pictures up, but we have this stupid pop-up block thing that won't let me browse for them..alas!
Good to be back in this lovely weather with yummy work!