Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
constructing 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 ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Our presentation on Sunday went quite good, though we both agreed that it was a little too long. We presented almost all of our projects. Next time we will select only the best ones. In general the reaction of the audience was enthusiastic. Esam, Anna and Karim said it was ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Anna
Salah
Ibrahim and Khairya
On Thursday we went for diner together with Heba, Salah (Heba’s boyfriend), Ibrahim, khairya (Ibrahims girlfriend) and Annastacia (an artist in residence from Swiss). We ate Egyptian pancakes in Islamic Cairo and smoked ‘shisja’ afterwards in a café. We made some pictures of our friends in the café.
On ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Last week the guy from the coffeeshop that serves us drinks was suddenly fired. His name is Torabi. Heba told us the news with tears in her eyes. We all thought it was a pity because he’s funny and we were all used to him. After three days he got ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Dina (the artist who had an exhibition in the Townhouse) brought one of her friends to our studio. She was a singer and an actress. Ibrahim told her that I was a singer too, so he suggested to sing together. Since I can’t sing any Arabic song (I’m practising) we ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Eddy invited us to go to a concert in the French institute. We went with Dalia, Heidrun, Ibrahim, Eddy and his girlfriend. We met even more people at the concert. It was an ambient / dance performance. Normally Egyptian people start to dance very easily. At this concert everybody ...
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