- Baraka water is bottled by Nestle
- do grocery shopping (plums 6EP, water DASANI 2EP, 2 fruit yogurts, 1 plain yogurt, biscuits Hob-Nobs, 15EP, TOTAL : 23EP)
- assuming not having a credit card and difficulties to get cash i have to take a better evidence of all my expences / from now on I will try to make an evidence of all my expences.
- come to cic / meet with Peio Agguire. Few years ago he was currating an exhibition where we were to take part in. Nothing happened at the end as the gallery space runned by Caixa suddenly shut down.
- heath says he got the rice but he can not eat it
- i go buy cigarette papers at Talaat Harb.
- comming back a man on T.H. Square tells me - Hi I remember you, you'we been passing here often a week ago. Where have you dissapeared ? I said you that you walk like an egyptien when crossing the street. You close your eyes and pray to god. When I answear to a usual question where are you from I say Yugoslavia, Serbia, he says his nickname is Tito.
- I pick up a nice wooden cage on the way back - people gesticulating in the mode of wondering and laughing at me - What do you need it for?
- 19h cic - panel discussion with a critique workshop. Already started. My bottle of water dissapeared and I am so thirsty. Imberable hot in the hall where the discussion is going on. Water gets so precious.
- nobody drinks wine here, it's too expensive - In the 50ies during the revolution all wine industries were burnt and destroyed because they were related to foreign capital - owned by mostly brittish... makes me think about the roots of Egiptian nationalism... / to order or pay the alcoholic drink you have to be sitting on the table - this is the general rule / no bar service / - dinner at Estoril. Leaving the restaurant I go out with a cigarette, I would never do it before when I was trying to integrate - now i think i am just so obviously different. Three young guys following me and trying to establish a conversation - I say I dont speak english in english - its a bit funny.
- 23.30 go home sleep / just falling asleep my phone rings - I can hear some arabic music on other side and the line breaks / trying to get asleep again wakes me up the door bell / I go to the door but nobody answers / so tired I go to sllep again