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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009The project Model Citizens is updated on our website. For direct link, click here
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The project Model Citizens is updated on our website. For direct link, click here
Water problems
Friday, February 6th, 2009If we want to use water in our apartment we need to turn on the waterpomp. There is only one waterpomp for the entire building and the machine can only produce enough power for one household. In our kitchen we have a switch that controls the waterpomp downstairs. When it’s ...
Update about life in Cairo
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008On Saturday 31 May 0:00 we went together with Katalin Schaak (artist in residence at the Townhouse Gallery, coming from Berlin, Germany) to Odeon to drink some beers. We sat outside at the rooftop, enjoying the cool breeze, talking about Cairo, art and life in general. At 4:00 we went ...
Dancing on Dalida
Thursday, May 29th, 2008On Wednesday Salah told us how much he liked the singer Dalida. He asked us several times if we could play her music. We searched on the Internet and could only find a video of an old revue (1980). We put it on and it was amazingly cheesy, full of ...
Feluka tour on the Nile
Friday, May 16th, 2008Feluka experience The real Feluka experience And than for the first time, somebody (Jan) turned the camera against me. The first two days after we came back from Toronto, we adapted quite easily to the seven hours time difference. We woke up at 9:00 am and went to be bed 23:00 pm. We ...
Engagement party Heba and Salah
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Heba and Salah organised their engagement party last week. Omnia picked us up and on the way to the party we bought some flowers. The party was at Heba’s home. When we walked inside all the women were sitting in one room and the men in another room. We didn’t ...
Saying goodbye
Monday, March 31st, 2008constructing the palace It was 38 degrees Celsius last week, much to hot for this time of the year. It was hard to concentrate and to keep our minds cool. I was working on one of the building that’s placed on the compound of the palace. I made a mistake ...