Excerpts from 'A journey to finding me' Eps 2

9th September Went out with my roommate to a typical traditional Egyptian café In Horreya (Café Baladi) my Italian roommate has a wealth of Egyptian friends that I would otherwise have never met, if I had never met her. Being at AUC is a good thing although it keeps one away from the locals. The cultures and races are diverse that we end up mixing with the foreigners because we seem to share the same ideas and thoughts about being a country not our own. At this Café, Local celebrities hang out, music bands and ordinary Egyptians. Of course being black I drew much attention, An Arab man in a Galabiya smoking shisha called out to me ‘Idi Amin” I wondered how on earth he had found out where I was from. Later I realized that my roommate told this one person who kept telling everyone else who asked where I had fallen out from and in a short while I was the Ugandan in the place. It’s interesting how people associate Uganda to Idi Amin, makes me wonder whether that’s all we are known for? Bad stuff? Maybe it’s time to change our face.