Being in a foreign country sometimes you witness, hear, or even smell things that just takes you for a second back to your country. It could be the simplest of things but it makes it happen!!
For me in India 3 things so far make this happen to me:
- Sometimes I wake up in a weekend to the sound of a guy selling something in the street. Regardless of what he is selling or what he is saying, which of course I don't understand, but that same scene happens in Egypt. At the same time every Egyptian guy who ever soled something in the street flashed in my mind. The guy who sells tomatoes, onions, watermelon, and the one that sells honey!!
- While I was waiting for the bus to go back home from in front of my office something reeeeally made me feel that I'm standing in the streets of Cairo. There was this small bus, known to us as mini and micro buses, and there was a guy inside calling out for the station that the bus was going to. I swear it's almost the same way they say it in Egypt (Ramseees!! Ramseeeeeeees!! :D). Again regardless of the language, the way it was being said and the whole scene took me right back!! I'll try to catch it on video once.
- Last and defiantly not least is the prayers call. I used to hear it all the time from my room back in Egypt. I hear it from my room here as well as the Mosque is like 5 mins away from my apartment. I feel that I'm in my actual room back home!!
Amazing, huh? All you need to do in my opinion is for you to just concentrate and look around you and you'll find those things that just bring you back home. Even if it lasts for seconds, it's an amazing feeling. You feel your surroundings have changed in a flash second yet everything was so clear.
Still didn't tell you about my last weekend. Maybe next weekend I will :D
Me3o over and out!!
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