So it begins

Salamaleico everyone!!! I made through the first day. The flight was a “bit” delayed but I had a pleasant time, there were heaps of movies, tv shows to watch, they even had Flight of the Concords!
I ended up watching dragon balls (bullcrap by the way) and I love you Man (worth watching). As soon as I step out of the aircraft I could already feel the difference, I mean going from Heathrow Airport to the Cairo one....my God tremendous difference, the duty free shopping looked more like a second hand good store, seriously, they were selling second hand oven, microwaves no kidding. I had to fill some forms about my health, passed by a camera that checked my body temperature..maybe all that cuz the swine flu...but nothing worrying. Other thing worth mentioning is their sense of organization, at the passport control there was no such thing as a queue, more like a gathering of people facing the facing direction. It was so freaking irritating, whoever can squish the most will be first. And I, being such a nice guy only took me an hour and a half to get through. I met this Korean guy in while waiting and he was also travelling and since it was late and he had no place to stay planned he decided to checked my hostel. We ended up sharing a taxi with his other friend after minutes of negotiation with hundreds of pushy taxi drivers.
The ability of the Egyptian people to form queues reflects directly on their ability to drive. Forget about lanes or indicating when you are changing lanes, those stripes on the asphalt are merely decorative, cars were zigzagging like crazy motherfuckers. Weirdly I felt at home in the streets of cairo, even in Cairo itself, the wide lanes, the light poles, the dirtiness. It kind of resembles the center of Sao Paulo.
When we got to the hostel I felt I was in a horror movie stage, the whole building was falling to pieces and they had the most ancient elevator I’ve ever seen. The first room we got the fan was broken and insanely hot so we talk to the guy in the reception and he changed our room.

And thats how my first day out of 153 ends.

See ya!