JEREMY TAYLOR: WRITER - TEACHER - JUGGLER
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Jeremy in Egypt (Part 3 of 5) |
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One evening in Cairo, I went to the circus with my juggling clubs. I watched a great juggling act - and then met up with the jugglers afterwards. One of them, Adel Badali, (top left in the picture) could speak good English and was keen to juggle with me. | ||
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Adel became one of my best friends in Egypt: An excellent circus performer and all round good guy. Adel and the rest of his troupe were trained by East German jugglers during the time when Egypt was flirting with communism. As a civil servant, working for the State Circus, Adel's wage was 'modest'. However we teamed up to do private shows around Cairo, improving our modest salaries. | ||
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The first month in Egypt was spent learning Arabic and finding out more about the country. Kevin, Florence, Gill, Sahar (teacher) Jane and Stuart. Florence and Stuart not only worked for three years in Sohag, Middle Egypt but then went to Hungary for another three years and were last heard of in Vietnam... | ||
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Many Egyptian women are gorgeous including my good friend Ghada, my Egyptian-landlord's daughter. She is now married to Hassan, a knee doctor and lives in Edinburgh. She is not really that pale, she has a wonderful olive complexion. This is traditional makeup for an Egyptian wedding. | ||
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Faith, one of my VSO colleagues, invited me to visit the orphanage where she worked in Cairo. A very different world from the opulence of the Marriott Hotel in Cairo. Note that the older woman has a tattoo on her chin. | ||
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And she can juggle! Not what you expect from an Egyptian woman running an orphanage. | ||
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The children were very friendly, funny and had no problems communicating, despite my limited Arabic. | ||
| Want to see the team I worked with in Egypt? Click on Jeremy in Egypt 4 ? | |||