After years of waiting, and pleading to my mom for this trip, I’m finally going to see what some call “the mother of the world.” Egypt.
So why I am I writing about this trip?
I want to try and preserve my first memories and impressions of visiting the place that my parents called home. I want to express my own point of view of the places I will visit, and the people I will meet. The point of view of a foriegner, yet at the same time, the point of view of a a native Egyptian. I always thought of Egypt as some sort of dreamland. A place that only exists in the stories of my mother and father when they were growing up there, and in the old photos of brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, and uncles that my parents brought with them when they came here. I’ve never felt so much anticipation for a trip before. I can only imagine what lies ahead for these next two weeks.
I was actually supposed to leave last night, but given my history of bad luck with air travel, the flight’s been delayed to 3am tomorrow morning. No idea when I’ll get to Egypt being that I’m connecting in Germany, and there’s no available flight to Cairo until Thursday. So yea, maybe this’ll turn into a blog about being stuck in Germany? But there’s a positive side to all this at least … free hotel rooms and free food!
I’m writing in a hotel lobby that’s only 20 minutes from my house. The airline gave us some pretty swanky hotel rooms and LOTS of free food! My only complaint is that they have some pretty obnoxious choices of holiday music playing on repeat in the hotel lobby, the only place that has wifi. Don’t get me wrong, I love the holiday season as much as anyone does, but hearing the chipmunks christmas album being played on repeat all day can kinda get on your nerves after the 30 billionth time. But yea, it’s not all bad. I just hope nothing goes wrong when I get to Germany.
Anyway, I’m hoping for the best, we’ll see what happens.