Baseball Match

Well this is considered a very new "cultural" activity to do, a couple of days ago, i went with some AIESECers from here to watch a "baseball" match !!! we went ot the stadium near my house, coz i live in SE :(( but anyways, we got the tickets and entered and whooo...........that's a real live baseball game babe, i haven't watched many in my life and i only played once(it wasn't even a complete game by all means) becoz the game in egypt is very rare, like when we played it, we did it only for fun and trying something new. but this time it was coool , of course afteri kept asking all the stupid questions abuot the exact rules of the game and i'm sure the ppl with me got bored from my questions :) poor them they gotta pay a good price for this cultural exchange to work out ;))
but anyways i really got into the game at the end, especially that it was a tight one, with the DC Nationals so close to tie or even win, but the Colorado Rockies got them :(( i was supporting the Nationals out of "geographical" sense of loyalty !!! and i wanted them to win so that i can c what wil the crowd do actually, i kept remembering big imp Soccer matches in Cairo, i guess the stadium would have been 5 times full at least and the crowd wouldn't stop roaring and singing for a second. well generally i think that soccer is more exciting becoz it faster and more in motion than baseball but i enjoyed it anyways, now i'm looking fwd to watch their soccer team "DC United" i guess this would be coool, and lets c how the americans play soccer :PPP
ciao in another post then

FreeeeeeeeeeDDoooooooommmm

hahahahahahahahaha.......................!!

DC at 1.00 am !!

WOW.........i can't really put in words how amazed i felt when i entered the Lincoln Memorial very late at night, and stood watching and wondering the beauty of the place, and how BIG it is......it was really an awesome sight and when u turn around, u can c the refelcting pool with the picture of the washington monument smothly reflected over the water (Though i don't feel comfortable with calling it the washington monument becoz i c it as a typical pharonic obelisque, but however that's only becoz i'm egyptian:))

Well it all started when Franky suggested that she's take me in a walking tour by the famous memorials very late, she said its wonderful and so different that in the morning, well i really liked the passion that she had when she was describing to me how they look gr8 at night, and i think it takes a certain type of personality to actually enjoy the historic places (especially at night) however so, Franky and Richard and i went there and that's how i came to the scene of the Lincoln Memorial, and after that we went to watch the Vietnam Memorial, where they had the names of all the soldiers killed at war written on the wall, and then we went to the Korean Memorial, this was really emotional, it certainly gets into u when u c the faces and the real-size statues of real mean who actually fought and died in the war, with their clothes and gear and true facial expressions.......u know what was the first thing that passed thru my head, i just thought that if we'd do a similar thing for the men who fought the October war in 1973, it would rock egypt to c how these guyz really looked like and who are they and what are their stories...however again i become passionate to my country.....ya3ni i guess this is me and i can't help it :)
however so after that we went to the WWII memorial which is recent as i was told and is an elegant piece of art as well.......the thing that i didn't wanna miss the most was that to read all the qoutes put in the wall in each memorial i've been too, i know that many of them was said by politicians and i'm one of the ppl that consider that most of what the politicians have to say is crap, but i guess the way i saw it this night wasn't political crap, it was more to me of quotes said by leaders to their nation in such a critical and shaping time, and that's why i think i valued what i read gedan.
Well Franky, ur suggestion was amazing and we'll definitely do it again (hopefully with a camera with us) and again my hopes to know more about the american history was stirred inside me.
I really wished we could do something that gr8 or even better to honour ppl who fought for us, i know that being from the younger generation, i didn't witness any war Egypt was into, but i believe that having such memorials would help in attaching the younger generation with our history and encourage them to really "know" about the history (not from school's history books ya3ni)

Beer Pong

Whoo man, i've definitely had the best 4th of July ever, well everything was really amazing, it was so cool to spend such a major national holiday in DC, the fact that this is the capital of this country where most of the major political events and decisions take place, but also this city had an amazing parade, it was so long and so full of different things happening and so many different types of ppl trying to represent their states or their countries, or even their religions (we saw Sikhs in the parade) and it was really cool. After watching the parade we returned to the AIESEC home in GW campus (a really cool place that i really love), we had this 4ht of July party where, it was so fun and it ws mostly about drinking beer and eating burgers and hotdogs........then the guyz started this funny game "Beer Pong" and i'd consider this game the most different cultural experience i've encountered so far :)) well regardless of the fact that its all about drinking more and more beer :))) and regardless alos of the fact that i don't like beer's taste so i don't drink it, what i liked most was the interest and enthusiasm the ppl had for the game, though its very simple but many ppl sat and watched the game, especially if the players are known for their skills ;)
Well the game very simply is that they each team(2 players a team) puts 10 cups in a shape of a pyramid and put beer in them, and then with a ping pong ball they try to throw it inside the cups of the other team, and if this happen then the other team must drink this cup !!!
Well anywyas i finally found a kind partner that was willing to drink all the cups so that i wouldn't drink any, and we started playing, it was so much fun and we stood for the other team till the end, at least we lost with one cup left :)

However after that we went over the roof of a building to wtch the fireworks, and man this was really the most intersting part of the evening, to watch the fireworks for 20 mins or more and stand among some americna students (most of them into politics and stuff) while they're having a national and patriot sentinement and singing out loud some national songs and stuff, this was fascinating for me, really fascinating :)

I guess the more i know about the american history, the more i find in myself te desire to learn more and more about it :)

To Belong

well of course when any blogger starts creating his own blog, takes some time thinking about a unique name for his blog, it usually had to do with his name, personality, something special in his life or with his friends.........i guess i tried to follow this trend, but i realized that it didn't take me more than 5 mins thinking to find that again this thoguht is dominating my mind, it was all an idea that struck me around 7 months ago when i was preparing for this sports camp (this will take a seperate post) however i realized that regardless of where we are or what we do with ourlives, or how much do we seem focused or lost or whatever, we all have some place we belong to, it could be an actuall place, or a group of friends, or a certain community, or maybe u belong to a very special memory in ur head.........i duuno its so random and abstract but eventually u'll find urself belonging to a certain entity.
however what added to this thought is when i traveled to DC, i found out that its when u get out of all ur spheres and daily routines, u start realizing where do u really belong and to what exactly do u belong.....ya3ni.....i'll keep posting about that further but i'd like to hear from anyone that read this post , tell me if u don't think u belong to anywhere, and tell me what do u belong to and talk about, for sure it will feel good talking abuot it :)

DC Life

Well, its the first time for me in the States, and the first time for me to create a Blog and starting publishing my thoughts thru it, well for sure life is so full of new things that u keep discovering and learning about everyday.
However i have many impressions about this city, and i guess through out my posts, i'll be able to point to more specific points of attraction for me in this city.....!!!
Anyways welcome to my blog and ur most welcomed to tell me what do u think of this city as well :)