Nazza's post

You call any older person you've never met before: uncle "Ammo" or "Khalu".

Getting a visa to Europe or the States is like getting a baby,everybody tells you "mabrook"

You always carry excess luggage when you travel and learn how to beg the personnel at the airport to allow the excess baggage you've got as soon as your father stops doing that for you.

Your dream is holding a different passport.

When you FLY BACK home you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport.

Every time you fly back home you meet relatives you never knew existed, and they look nothing like your family.

You always curse at Egyptians when you are back home, but when you live abroad you make many Egyptian friends, and say how wonderful are the ones back home.

Everyone is a family friend.

People are never happy with what you've achieved.If you graduated from school they'll tell you "Oqbal el Shahadehel kebeerah", and when u get that "Oqbal el Aroosa or Areees',and when you get that "Oqbal ma nefrah be Aoulad-kum", and when you get that "Oqbal ma tefrahu bi! ! shahadit-hum", etc...

You only walk on the streets in groups of seven or more people and talk really loud in Arabic all together.

You fight over who pays the dinner bill.

You teach Westerners to swear words in your language.

You keep on saying Kol Sanna Wa Inta Tayeb left, right and center !

You pronounce your p's as b's (bebsi and bolice) unless you were raised also speaking a western language, a rare breed in present Egypt

You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you a story of how he had to walk miles just to get to school.

Your dad swears at you with words that affect himself (Ya Ibnil....)