Since I am the only male child my parents have, I am exempted from military service. I have to go through a pretty painful process for getting the exemption paper work done. So I decided I would start today. took all the pre-required paper work..stuff like my parents' id's and my sisters' birth certificates and went to where I should have got a family record..a piece of paper that says lists my family members names i guess. The place, which was totally empty on Saturday, was now so full that you hardly can see the desk where the employees who hand you the papers are behind.
Since I had a meeting at Cairo University's faculty of economics political sciences - FEPS-, I left and told myself I would go back on a later day.
I had to go to FEPS to meet with a group of NESA alumni. NESA -Near East/South Asia-is a student exchange program supervised by the U.S. dept. of state on which I went to Montana to study more than a year ago. We had to meet coz we want to organize a reunion for NESA alumni from all countries.
Originally our meeting was scheduled on 10:30 put it was moved to 12:00. Lucky me, I did not make it to the meeting place until a little after 12:00. I was planning on going to my college after but since we started the meeting after 12 and my college was like an hour away, my intention to go to college began to fade away.
FEPS is a very unique place. I think it holds a special place since it's the only place were politicians come from in Egypt. Well, the only government owned place coz I think people study politics at the AUC as well. Anyway, the place is cleaner than and building in CU or Helwan university i guess. It's definitely cleaner than my college, I can tell. Students seem to have more privileges here than anywhere else. The place is warm compared to my college. warm as in cozy. I like to be there, for short.
We had a decent meeting. People were brain storming for ideas and we came up with pretty good ideas i think (Thanks to Allah). The meeting was over around 2:15. Went to make "Al'dhuhr" prayer or whatever people write it in English. I was close to the faculty of engineering where a lot of my high school buddies went. So I decided to skip college for the day and go do something good with my day. I went hoping I would find people I know which was what happened.
I ran into a middle-school kid, Mo'taz, whom I have not seen for too long. I then met with my dear M. Osama from high school. We had a good talk about our graduation projects. My buddy Mahmoud Raouf was the next one I met. He has recently grown interest in photography and they now have this exhibition at the college in which he's participating with 3 of his works. Me, Mohammed and Mahmoud had a good time then talking about the pictures and other stuff too. I always like to hang out at their college. I feel I belong there as I originally wanted to do engineering after high school but my grades sent me to where I am right now: Computer Science. I think I made my peace with computer science but still it's like marrying someone you did not like and trying to grow feeling for them.
We went to have Al'asr prayer when I met Mahmoudy, a NESA ex-participant from 2008 which was a good thing too. After the prayer I decide I should go home and luckily Mahmoudy lives near by me so we went home together. As we were walking to the place where we could take a microbus or something back home, a colleague of his passed by driving his car. Mahmoudy shouted at him. The guy who was really nice offered us a ride and we accepted the offer.
I went home, ate, slept. I woke up at 10:30 pm. to find my older sister has stopped by. She was visiting my aunt who lives like 15 minutes away.
I don't feel so good about skipping college today but I think it was worth it. It was a good day today.
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