Christmas
12.1.2005 | Aqaba, Jordan
It's been quite a long time since my last entry. It's hard to decide where to start and which of the adventures of the last couple of weeks to write about. Does it even make sense to write about things that happened to a group of 50 guests (we tourist guides try to avoid using the word “tourist”) beside me? Maybe it does, because everybody has their own, unique way of perceiving a certain event.
A massacre on the beach
23.12.2004 | Aqaba, Jordan
Morning in a beach close to Aqaba. The sun came out and started peeking over the hills that seem to rise out of the sea and then extend further towards east and the desert. The rays of sun are hitting the windscreen and it's becoming hot. I draw the curtain away and look outside, when I catch sight of dead bodies, lying there helplessly, under the window. Three corpses, being warmed up by the mild morning sun.
EXODOS…
21.12.2004 | Aqaba, Jordan
Before the border I stopped at the gas station and filled up everything I had. First in the place where everything is dirty on the floor and you have to be careful not to fall and then the other place, where it smells of acceleration. That’s where I also carefully cleaned the fuel tank hole with petrol. I only paid about 18 euro for 50 plus 35 litres. It was eleven in the evening. Perfect, I'll make a full use of the Syrian insurance and take out the Jordanian one with the beginning of the new day.
Let’s talk about sex... And the cafeteria got empty in a second. Well, almost.
20.12.2004 | Damascus, Syria
Shireen studies English literature. She's in the second year and her English is more or less at grammar school level. But she's a very nice young girl, wearing – would you believe it? – white boots and a tight mini skirt that makes walking through a door behind her close to indecent. Me and Alexander sat down with her one day after the course in the cafeteria – we were invited to sit down by a friend of Alexander's, who's in his final year of English literature studies. Of course, the conversation led to the prohibition of accepting guests of the opposite sex in the apartment and the moment came when we had to clearly define and explain the difference between “girlfriend” and “female friend”.