Excerpts from 'A journey to finding me' Eps 3

10th September Went to Natalie’s Iftar, Sudanese, Americans, Canadians, English, Ethiopians, and Egyptians filled the boat house, such lovely people too. It’s always nice to meet a group of warm people in the midst of the harshness of Cairo. MG came over with her boyfriend, she is not the Assistant Director at AMERA, and she gave me such a boost when I told her I was thinking about working for AMERA and doing an internship. She suggested that it was a good idea and would most likely turn into a job especially if I am in Cairo for a long time. Met an African American From St. Thomas and he shared much about what he had expected coming to African but has been disillusioned by being in Egypt as a country in Africa and how African descent people are treated as foreigners. Being African and raised in Africa, I do not spend time focusing on racism as an issue, I have faced it but have learned to ignore it and move on. It is different for African Americans, African Brits and even Nubians in Egypt. I think it is because in many ways they face it in a place that to them is home without an option, I have faced it in countries not my own. I have to learn to not judge them because I started to feel like,’ please move on it will always be there’ but that is not being sensitive to the issue on their hearts. So am trying so hard to view it from the perspective of them searching for what they call home and being accepted in that place called home.