Excerpts from 'A journey to finding me' Eps 6

21st September Today I decided to watch Entourage, a TV series I have become addicted to. Spent the evening at Beanos because for some reason there is no internet in my apartment, a starting to get wary of calling the DSL people as everything seems to be so bureaucratic. You would think that the Computer age would make things and systems better than they used to, it only seems to make things a little bit more complicated. Or maybe it is us humans who want to make things much complicated that they really are. I spent the evening taking lemon mint drinks at Beanos, love it! Did some of my reading and typing there. It’s such a nice warm and cozy café that I find refreshing, different air from being locked up in my apartment all day long. The waiters seem a lot more friendly and honest compared to Cilantro which is only a few blocks away. Is it that the managerial policies are different or is it that the temperate of the place determines how the waiters treat customers? I finally decided to attend the Evangelical church behind Mogamma where my Landlords have invited me to. I enjoyed it, still the same stares, I might as well get used to them. The struggle was listening to the sermon on the headphones which had the English version of the sermon. I knew that the interpreter was not translating word for word that put me off. It was not making as much sense as I thought it would if she did not let some words pass. My motivation therefore to learn Arabic. On my way to the church I did the most un-lady like thing, a group of about six Arab boys walk up to me while I waited to cross the road. One of them came right in front of my face- in my space and starting saying things about my color. I lost it, putting in mind that I had faced enough this week I decided to slowly take my earphones off, looking at him straight in the eyes, raised my hand and slapped him. He ran so fast and I can’t even remember what happened to his friends, they kind of just disappeared. The moment I did that I felt un-lady like and wondered whether it was the right thing to do. Yet am sure emotions overrode logic today. Maybe it was just fine after all.