Mena

Today I have received an email from my friend Mena, from Alex. He and his brother Bassem were very close friends to me while I was living In Egypt. Especially Mena whom I consider the best person I ever met during my one year and half there. The thing is, I have many friends there, muslims, christians... and I enjoyed a lot our friendship. Mena every night made sure I got at my appartment (oh that appartment that smelled always humidity! and the ceiling was falling down every time there was a rainstorm! And yes even the water filtrating fell down my face while I was sleeping... waking me up!) Anyway Mena was my special friend with whom I shared many of my thoughts regarding certain people who were at that time (some still are) living someway in my heart. I used to go have "dinner" consisting in "Koshayry" at 3 in the night! And went have breakfast at 6... also koshayry! LOL I loved it so much. And the tramway passed near our table and the people and children started walking here and there.... while we were thinking that it was time to go to sleep :)! And Mena had a girlfriend called like me and he didn't want to marry her... I wonder what happened. I wait for his re-reply now. His brother had a very funny car, a red volkswagen and he always laughed when I entered inside because it was real weird the way it looked inside. Everything would fall down when he was driving. Even the cassettes from inside the stereo!! And we joked about the people who crossed the street without watching the lights. Typical egyptian, by the way. "Kill them!" I used to say laughing. And we laughed a lot when they were in the middle of our way. Then the rain started to fall, and the thing is: in Alexandria the rain is not only meteorological but sentimental, devotional, what else can I say. The raindrops falling against the windows and we singing inside the car, going somewhere, just drive, let's go anywhere. Let's enjoy the rain!

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