However, the majority of muslims i asked what year it was couldn't answer me... unless they read the newspapers here often, since it is written on the top on the page, alongside the 'western date'.
In reality all that seems to happen is a public holiday for schools and offices... which at least means the traffic is quite for a change!
Oh- on a completely different note. Those of you reading this who have staying with me over the last year will know i was most upset that my bourganvilla wouldn't flower.... well... it has now! Lovely orangey blooms... not many of them but I was beginning to wonder if ii had been sold a dud!!!
Oh and thanks for all the responses to my blog about the shark attacks in sharm. seems they closed the beach wed-fri, reopened it on sat, and a german woman was attacked on sunday. Hmm. You would think they might check these things a bit better... Here's what Egypts News has to say about it; http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/environment/expert-blames-sharm-attack-on-illegal-shark-feeding.html
and another piece of breaking news... one of my dressers saw on the news that 4 people had been eaten by crocodiles in the Nile!!!! Seemingly with various food shortages further up the nile the crocs are having to swim further north to find food... and they found it in human form!Fishermen seemingly who were complaining becuase they were losing fish to these smiling competitors!! we are talking about the very south of Egypt here... but still, it makes one think of pharonic times when these were the monsters of the Nile, along with hippos- wonder if they will make a reappearence too?
so sharks and crocodiles in Egypt... eating people. It's all very excting, and a bit scary. Especially as all incidences are due to an ecological imbalance in nature!
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I feel as if it's New Year, new start, too.
My mum died three months ago and I thought that was the worst thing that could have happened to me - until I read about the shark mauling. I think that would come pretty close. I think death is probably quite a taboo subject. Yet we all live with it. If you are a dancer, you try and dance through it too.
I feel as if belly dance is almost a substitute mother, it's non-judgmental, even if you do it competitively, you do it your way. Also, my mother loved my dancing. So I keep on with it. I will never forget her, she is with me always. But she would be the first to say: bring on the new beginning! (And mind the sharks, especially the human ones!).
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