| |  | | | Travel stories from Beni Suef | Collection of 12 travel stories from Beni Suef, Egypt. Written by your friends on the road. | |
| | | | | |  | The final word
2007-06-10, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | It’s getting harder to take a keen interest in writing in this journal. I suppose a mainly because I can only explore so much of my experience in such a public space, and given my limited computer ti... |
| | | | | Horses, pigeons, choosing a wife...
2007-04-09, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | Hey, it's a long one here. Feel free to take a look at it in bits.
I am nearing the end of another phase of my work here in Beni Suef. My work in the school will finish at the end of April. The ... |
| | | | | Just a boring note about the pictures
2007-03-11, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | The pictures I have put up during this new year of 2007 have all managed to come through dated 2006. I'm not sure if this matters to anybody, but just in case it does, don't get confused.
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| | | | | | | | | | Belly dancing, Canadian style
2007-02-25, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | Now for something completely different: the weekend of engagement parties. The memories come to mind vividly and makes me smile. Before this fateful weekend I had not been to any engagement parties ... |
| | | | | The Journey
2007-02-25, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | One especially memorable day from the month was the day of the ‘rehla’, the Arabic word for a trip or journey. In the context of the Coptic Orthodox church it often means piling onto a bus at a devas... |
| | | | | Sea food and unexpected English camp
2007-02-25, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | It’s been a while and I have many things to write. To make it more manageable I’ll post it up in a few sections. If you have a sufficient attention span, you can read them all at once!
January ha... |
| | | | | Egyptian family immersion
2007-01-09, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | I had great fears before Christmas that the time I would spend without evening English classes or work in the school to keep me active and occupied, and no serious travel plans, other than a Christmas... |
| | | | | Christmas and some whining about my bicycle
2006-12-31, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | Life in Egypt continues to make for interesting adventures and realizations, and I'm happy to finally sit down and share some of them.
It's December 31st today, and I'm soon going to bike over to t... |
| | | | | Animals and a sea of cars
2006-11-14, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | I have a feeling that enough time has passed, enough new experiences have accumulated, that it is the "right time" to write some more about the life of a tall, blond, Canadian young man in Egypt.
I... |
| | | | | A different flavour in Egypt
2006-10-27, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | This past week has been of a somewhat different flavour for me. As Ramadan came to an end there is a week-long holiday here in Egypt, and therefore no school and no work for me to do. We cancelled t... |
| | | | | The Beni Suef Transition
2006-10-04, Beni Suef, Egypt. By: torchmaker | | I arrived here in Beni Suef on Friday afternoon, and it seems very appropriate to try and communicate a bit about this latest major transition in my life here in Egypt.
Before all that I can say th... |
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