After talking about the Koshari officially let me tell you something weird that I saw before ...

In Cairo there was a Koshari kiosk, at the beginning it looks normal, after that when you try to order something to eat there you find the man putting the ingredients with his hands, without gloves even (at the beginning you think that the invention of the spoon didn't come to him yet, but after that you discover the weird "ideology" he follows) ...

When he was asked about the reason why he does that, he said (our ancestors didn't have spoons, they were eating with their hands, so we must do like them) ...

NO COMMENT   O.O

Koshari is the most famous Egyptian dish of all time, maybe it doesn't look so delicious as some foreign friends told me but when they try it for 1 time they got addicted to it ...

If you eat it in any restaurant here it'll cost you less than a dollar, and it will make you full ...

It was made for the first time in Egypt in the 19th century, it's made of rice, macaroni, lentils, covered with tomato and vinegar sauce and garlic juice and fried onion on the top with boiled humus (the sauce can be hot or sweet as you want) ...

It's so easy to cook at home, it takes less than 30 minutes, here's the recipe for who wants to try ...

I encourage you to try actually :D

http://www.food.com/recipe/koshari-39446

After going to get my file, having another 4 hours' queue and having the same journey to home, I started finishing my army papers and they made me go around the city 3 times to get all required signatures and papers and I still didn't finish the army papers till now :/ , I think I don't need to say the story of the army because it's not same interesting as the university's story, I would just keep saying (I went there and waited for 3 hours, then went for the army office that is far 3 hours from my home and needed 4 buses for this journey ..... etc) , but just try to feel how tiring it is to need to ride 4 buses to go somewhere and same for coming back home, and of course I don't go out of the bus and find the other one waiting for me, I search for it and sometimes wait for it for more than 30 minutes ...

But at least I've had another 2 hours' queue in the university, applied and now I am a university student :D

Some people who have an innocent brain like I used to have would think that everything has finished now, but the hard painful truth is that still I must choose a department inside the faculty of arts, I have another journey, or maybe other journeys ...

And put in your minds that I am doing all that just to apply for the university abroad, so I do all that for nothing, just to have my name in a university here ...

Still story that I wrote in few hours took me 3 months to do ...

Hope I won't be a zombie after all that ...

Before I have this journey I thought that college must be replaced with school in this picture, but now I understand why it's college and not school, the one who made it have a better future vision than me ... much better ... but the only difference is that he thinks it's the college itself that makes a zombie, but I believe that it's the preparation for it that makes a zombie ... OR maybe he still has a better future vision than me ...

Don't know what's waiting for me after that, but actually


I HOPE NOT TO BE CONTINUED ....

The real problem came when I had enough courage to ask the clerk a simple question (when we will finish that please?) he took my papers and said the worse thing I could imagine (oh,you must come after 3 days,your papers are not ready yet) , at this moment I looked exactly like that, I wanted to cry like kids and smash everything I find on my way ...

So even the 4 hours I kept waiting were for nothing, I couldn't even get the file to apply later, I won't describe how furious I was because I think it's obvious for everybody ...

The problem of that day didn't stop here, because of course all this nation in the university would go home, so it means they would need the bus, so imagine with me for a moment the scene of of any zombies movies when they run after a car trying to eat brains of people inside it, hope I made it clear enough, but still I believe that all examples are not enough to illustrate this scene ...

After 3 days I went to the university again, and believe it or not still my papers weren't ready, and I had the same journey to home ...

But this time I found a good helpful student in his second year, he goes there everyday, so I took his phone number and told him to ask for me when shall I apply when he goes and I will cal him from a day to another, if I didn't find that student I would keep going for nothing, because I would never try to call the clerk again ....

Then oneday I called him and found that my papers were ready ...


TO BE CONTINUED ...

Then I have done as the awesome clerk has said and I decided to visit that "thing" called "university", but actually it wasn't so bad except that I needed to pass 2 inspection points, because maybe I would have a bomb in my bag!! :/

After I prepared my papers and went to apply I stayed in a queue for more than 4 hours, then at the end discovered that this queue was only to get my file to apply for the university later, at this moment I remembered a phrase that I kept saying when I was in the last year of high school and  understood how stupid I was when I said (I hate school, I want to go to the university), and waiting for 4 hours for just getting the file to have another queue to apply after somedays wasn't the real problem as some people would think.

TO BE CONTINUED ....

My innocent brain thought that choosing my faculty was the hardest part, but after that I discovered the painful truth :/ , first I called the university to know what should I do, and the awesome clerk replied (didn't think she would make effort to hold the phone), but the smile on my face when the clerk replied has disappeared so fast when I heard her voice, she was yelling at me!! did I do anything to her??!!!!!!! all what I have done was to ask (which papers shall I prepare to apply for the university?) then I found a cesspool has got wide open in the phone saying (CAN'T YOU COME AND ASK BY YOURSELF?????? SHALL I SAY EVERYTHING TO YOU WHILE YOU ARE AT YOUR HOME?!!!!) , then I understood that it was the clerk speaking and wasn't a cesspool, actually I had nothing to say or do except closing the line, because the awesome clerk had no time to answer my questions, I don't know why she is working actually ...


TO BE CONTINUED .....

After talking about the university of Alexandria officially let me tell you about the real tragic university life :D

The story starts from the time I knew my high school degree and decided to join the university, in Egypt you don't need to be in the literature section to study in the faculty of arts, you can be in the science section then study commerce, you can be in the math section then study history in university, and you can be in the section of arts and literature then study commerce in the university .... etc, so when you don't get the degree to study medicine or engineering you feel lost, you have no idea what to study or where to go, and if you listen to people's opinions you would just stay at home and decide to stop learning or otherwise you would suicide, because everybody has his own experience and opinion and they try as hard as they can to persuade you with their ideas as if they would gain something from you if you do what they say ...

I didn't like anything from things I was able to join, not the faculty of commerce, arts, physical education nor tourism and hotels, so I decided to choose the easiest thing I can study (because I am already planning to study abroad), and my choice was arts and literature because it needs only 1 hour everyday "maximum" (if you are planning to get a so high grade) if not, so you can study for the last 3 weeks before the exam then pass so easily :D

TO BE CONTINUED .......

Finally after graduating from high school I'm back to the blog, there were hard times with school stuff, but now I'm out of that weird nightmare called high school (the last year was a nightmare to be specific), spending more than 10 hours everyday studying everyday to study medicine isn't humane, specially if you don't get the result to study medicine at the end and study arts, but anyway let me tell you somethings about the University Of Alexandria ....

In 1938 it was a branch of the faculty of arts of Fuad university (Fuad university became the university of Cairo later on) in Cairo, after that it became an independent university in 1942 and it was known as the Farouk university till the revolution of 1952, then it was called the University Of Alexandria from that time, now it's the second largest university in Egypt ....

It has 19 faculties, the most 3 crowded faculties are the faculty of commerce, the faculty of arts, and the faculty of law, and they (those 3 faculty with the faculty of tourism and hotels) are in the campus of El-Shatby, next to the bibliotheque de Alexandrie (we will talk about the library later Insha'allah) ....

There are a lot of famous people who ere graduated from the university of Alexandria. the most known example is Dr.Ahmed Zewail, the Noble Prize winner in science in 1999, he graduated from the faculty of science in University Of Alexandria in 1974 ....

And many other famous people like Yusuf Shahin, Zahi Hawwas, Hamza Namira, Samir Ghanem, Yousef Zidan and Yousef Nada ....

 The University Of Alexandria administration building.

The faculty of Arts.

The faculty of Engineering.

Dr.Ahmed Zewail.