Aicha, since you insisted, here you go!
So, it's been 2 weeks since I started schooling with Egyptians. From a no-Egyptian school to an all-Egyptian school is pretty dumb ain't it?
First day of school in a new school is always the hardest. Finding new friends, where's the toilet and the list goes on. What I like about that school is, they only wear a red Port Said t-shirt and a gray trouser. Yup, that's it. So I arrived at 7.45 a.m. Haih...first day of school and already got stopped coz of wearing another trouser. So I had to stand there for like an hour till the Headmistress came. Ouch, let me tell you what she's like. The face is EXACTLY the same as the on in PISC. The only difference is that, the one in PISC walks slowly and doesn't raise his voice but the one here...Egyptian style....you got the idea. She started to kick students out of school coz of wearing the wrong uniform. I stood there, intimidated. Luckily, she took it easy on me and asked to buy a new trouser coz that day, I was the only foreigner. I got lost while finding my class. Haih. When I finally arrived, I checked which was my class, a or b. OMG. My full name is Muhammad Hilmi bin Johari but I omitted the 'bin' part to avoid curiosity and confusion. You know what, THEY FREAKING EGYPTIAN-IFIED MY NAME!!! From Muhammad Hilmi Johari to Mohamed Helmy Geniry. C'mon! WTF is that. How can Johari turned to Geniry? I wrote my name CLEARLY on the form. Haish.
Second day, I was on the hot stool/chair..etc. Means that people kept questioning me. I thought I was the only foreigner there but luckily, 2 Vietnamese will suffer with me.
Now about the teachers. Phy, Chem and Bio teachers all write notes in English but EXPLAINS in Arabic. Phy is 50% Eng and 50% Arabic. Bio is 25% Eng and 75% Arabic. Chem is 2% Eng and 98% Arabic. I'm screwed? I thought Class 9 here is taking O-level but no. It's Class 10. Have to stay another year. I got a lot of free periods but I can't get out of the class of course. Arabic, Social Studies and Religion are the ones I'm not taking. I don't know about IT and German. German? YES! They gave me an option, it was either French or German. So I took German and now I've to write an essay about 40 words in German. HAAAAAAIHHH.English teacher is AWESOME. He's from England but has an Arab blood. He's so damn funny meh. He's the only guy that speaks FULL ENGLISH except for the Literature teacher, the ONLY EGYPTIAN THAT SPEAKS FULL ENGLISH. So that took out some weight that I've been lifting for 2 weeks.
So I made a few friends. As you all know, I'm not that rough. Egyptians here are...haih...arabs. You know what, hardly any of them speaks Eng. Most are from National. Oh yea, I'm in Port Said British School. zzzzzzz...the past papers are just too many to solve. Very thick also.
So far, so good. I'm beginning to like this school even though football ain't there. P.E is only 1 period per week. Mafish football and we can't stay after school.
CHOW!
So, it's been 2 weeks since I started schooling with Egyptians. From a no-Egyptian school to an all-Egyptian school is pretty dumb ain't it?
First day of school in a new school is always the hardest. Finding new friends, where's the toilet and the list goes on. What I like about that school is, they only wear a red Port Said t-shirt and a gray trouser. Yup, that's it. So I arrived at 7.45 a.m. Haih...first day of school and already got stopped coz of wearing another trouser. So I had to stand there for like an hour till the Headmistress came. Ouch, let me tell you what she's like. The face is EXACTLY the same as the on in PISC. The only difference is that, the one in PISC walks slowly and doesn't raise his voice but the one here...Egyptian style....you got the idea. She started to kick students out of school coz of wearing the wrong uniform. I stood there, intimidated. Luckily, she took it easy on me and asked to buy a new trouser coz that day, I was the only foreigner. I got lost while finding my class. Haih. When I finally arrived, I checked which was my class, a or b. OMG. My full name is Muhammad Hilmi bin Johari but I omitted the 'bin' part to avoid curiosity and confusion. You know what, THEY FREAKING EGYPTIAN-IFIED MY NAME!!! From Muhammad Hilmi Johari to Mohamed Helmy Geniry. C'mon! WTF is that. How can Johari turned to Geniry? I wrote my name CLEARLY on the form. Haish.
Second day, I was on the hot stool/chair..etc. Means that people kept questioning me. I thought I was the only foreigner there but luckily, 2 Vietnamese will suffer with me.
Now about the teachers. Phy, Chem and Bio teachers all write notes in English but EXPLAINS in Arabic. Phy is 50% Eng and 50% Arabic. Bio is 25% Eng and 75% Arabic. Chem is 2% Eng and 98% Arabic. I'm screwed? I thought Class 9 here is taking O-level but no. It's Class 10. Have to stay another year. I got a lot of free periods but I can't get out of the class of course. Arabic, Social Studies and Religion are the ones I'm not taking. I don't know about IT and German. German? YES! They gave me an option, it was either French or German. So I took German and now I've to write an essay about 40 words in German. HAAAAAAIHHH.English teacher is AWESOME. He's from England but has an Arab blood. He's so damn funny meh. He's the only guy that speaks FULL ENGLISH except for the Literature teacher, the ONLY EGYPTIAN THAT SPEAKS FULL ENGLISH. So that took out some weight that I've been lifting for 2 weeks.
So I made a few friends. As you all know, I'm not that rough. Egyptians here are...haih...arabs. You know what, hardly any of them speaks Eng. Most are from National. Oh yea, I'm in Port Said British School. zzzzzzz...the past papers are just too many to solve. Very thick also.
So far, so good. I'm beginning to like this school even though football ain't there. P.E is only 1 period per week. Mafish football and we can't stay after school.
CHOW!
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