Sunday, July 17, 2005

Anakara or bust

My way to Ankara was amazing, I never enjoyed a bus ride like this one in my life, 5 hours I didn’t sleep I sec, amazing view and weather.








The way from istanbul to ankara






Anyways all that changed when the bus stopped in Ankara, I thought in the beginning that no one was there for me, but there was.
A short thin guy, call ozon , he seemed like a nice but the truth is beyond that.
I was just going to get my back when he came and asked me if I am an AIESECer, so I said yes I am.
I was happy that this time someone came for me , anyways I asked him where we are going , he told me that we are going to the LC office and it’s like 10 Mins far , so I said no problem walking wont kill me anyways.
So I got my 2 big bags plus my laptop bag , he offered to take one of them so he took me of the 2 big bags , anyways we started walking and he was like falling every 2 ins because the bag seemed to be heavy for him so I took and gave him my laptop bag , and that was still heavy for him so I took it as well and said to myself : its just 10 Mins it wont kill me.
After 10 Mins I asked him where the LC is, pointed at some stairs and told me after these stairs we will be there , let tell you the truth , its like going a 10 stores building.
Anyways some stairs won’t kill me after 15 Mins of stairs we were at the top, and let me remind you that I was carrying everything I have.
I asked him , are we there ? he said after 10 Mins I was going to kill him ,bas I said to my self okay some other walking wont kill me .








Ozan the guy who picked me up from the bus station









Anyways the 10 became an hour of walking , when we got there everyone was like where the hell were you, its just 10 Mins by bus , then I was going to kill him .
They were going to kill him as well and they started fighting with him and stuff , for members of our LC you may consider him like Mohamed Samir ( the poem member we had ) .
Anyways I had some fun in the LC office witch is very big well in fact it’s a villa and the best thing in it that Shady beshr flag is still here with his name on it , OUR FLAG IN TUREY YA MASR.

Anyways until now it wasn’t bad, until they told me about the dorms , I have a curfew , me having a curfew , FENEK YA MARGO .
Quality case quality case, HELP ME YA MASR.

My curfew is at 12 do you believe that, BoB who always go home at 4 and 5 am have a curfew.
Anyway I managed to get around that he he its like Egypt, if you know the way.

I will start work tomorrow (Monday) and I am very happy about it , thought I didn’t go to a lot of places but I will this weekend .
All the trainees here are great , there is trainees from the UK , USA , Poland , France , China , Finland , Germany , Ukraine .
And there is a polish girl who is always over my head, BUT she is a really nice girl, don’t get any ideas.

Well that’s it for now , I will write to you guys later

BoB Has Left The Building


BoB in tukey

Well I don’t know where to star…
He he this is my first blog every anyways I will start from the sec I came here
I landed in Istanbul so happy and ready to start my traineeship but no one was waiting for me in the airport witch is something I wasn’t thinking about, I didn’t have an address or anything I just had riham (a trainee from AAST Cairo) here in turkey so I called her and she gave a contact from Istanbul LC, when I called him he told me that they thought that I know my way around (whatever)
Anyways I took the bus to a place called taksim , it’s a nice place its like downtown Alexandria , lots of people buying stuff and walking around , and thank god there was this guy from the LC waiting for me at the bus station .
I went to the hotel and thank god I met malky (AAST Cairo) he was attending the conference here in Istanbul. So we spent some time walking around, went for some shisha he he it was nice.
The second say was more fun, or should I say more walking, me and him went to this huge mall like 30 Mins away from our hotel, and took some picture with really cool cars.
Then went back for lunch and more walking, all that and I don’t have any idea where is the LC members who should be with us in this trip.

The funny thing here is that no one speaks English at all, or let’s says in every 100 you will find one and not evens that good English; it took us 4 hours to find the lonely planet turkey book in English and 1.5 hours to find aspirin.
After that we met some friends from EuroLDS, and then for a walk around in the night cafes and because we are 2 stupid Egyptian guys we went into a gay bar , so the first thing we saw was two guys kissing and everyone was like stopped talking and took a look at us ( I don’t think I am this cute ) .

the second day I had to take the bus to Ankara , and the person who booked me the ticket from the LC gave me wrong directions but I went the right place in the last Mins , thank god.

But I must say , Istanbul LC has a very cool office , I felt that I am in a company not an LC , who knows maybe one day we will have one as big as that in Alexandria.

pictures time :) :)

cool car isnt it :)

Cool Office as well