A Day in Life

I know I have not been very diligent about updating this blog. Work has been very busy. On top of all my regular work we have been working on getting our school accredited and I was on the team - it was a lot of latenights and extra work but we did it!

I really have not had time for much of anything worth writing about. Also, life here quickly becomes normal and daily events no longer seem exotic and interesting - it makes regularly updating a blog difficult. So today's events, like many others came and went without much thought - but then I remembered reading a friend's blog where she said that everything we do on this side of the world is interesting to you back home (or to my mom, who is likely the only person still reading this). Now let me start by saying that I was not planning on telling this story. The thing is, stories that involve people driving you too fast and anything that remotely resembles an accident makes parents very nervous and w

hen you are a blonde girl living in the Middle East alone you don't really need more things to worry your parents about. But for the sake of getting my mom to stop telling me it is time for a new blog post and for a complete lack of anything else of interest to write about.... here it is. First a little bit of background information: This weekend I went on a live on board diving trip to Brothers Islands. It is one of thetop dive sites in the world. It gets really strong current so it is a great place for sharks - so we went out in search of them. Every other group saw a few and on the last dive two people in my group finally saw one they say was about two and a half metres long, butby the time they got my attention I had missed it. I did make this lovely new friend though, and yes he is as big as he looks.

Anyway it was a very different kind of diving for me, very challenging and exciting.

Here I am (in the first picture) clinging to a shipwreck at 30 m waiting for sharks.

You had to hold on because the current was so strong.

So this is the story I was planning to tell when I started this post but got carried away with all those picture. Anyway, on the way home I am driving home with some people that I dive with. Around hour six, and only about 10 minutes from home we hit a speed bump going well...very very fast. I felt my body crumple in half and instantly I was sweating and I could not see or talk because the pain was so incredibly intense. So I have not been able to move since. While laying in bed moaning and nauseous from the pain a friend offered to bring me something to help. Now I should mention that in Egypt you don't go to a doctor to get a prescription. Here you just go the pharmacy and tell them what you want and you can get ANYTHING. I knew this. But still, I was a little taken aback when this friend arrived with not only some pretty intense pills but also ...

Yes we filled the syringe and administered it ourselves. Anyway I am feeling much better right now thank you very much strange Egyptian pharmacy.