Posts Tagged Alexandria
So the So-Cal crew was asked to map out the convoy’s drive to Al-Arish from Alexandria as well as the locations we would be making stops. After looking around at several places in Ma’mura, where we’re staying in Alexandria, Taher and I decided to take a trip to the Library of Alexandria (about an hour away from Ma’mura). You would think: what better place to go to than a library to find road maps of Egypt, right???
After spending the entire day there, asking a dozen different bookstores, shops, and people… we came to the following conclusion: road maps simply don’t exist in Egypt OR if they do they aren’t for sale in public. Almost all of Egypt’s shops in downtown areas, where the Library of Alexandria is located, cater to tourists and tourists usually don’t come to Egypt to drive on a 250 mile convoy from Alexandria to Al-Arish to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Anyhow, we sadly returned to Ma’mura just a few hours ago empty-handed and determined to simply rely on Google Maps. If Google Maps works as great as it does in the United States, then it should suffice for our purposes. I guess time will tell…
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| Viva Palestina USA (Saturday, July 11) |
Mosquitoes!
Jul 11
Considering you all know exactly where we are at (and if you don’t: verbage, livetherevival), I just wanted to update everyone on the lives of those waiting (for the past 2 days) in Alexandria for the Viva Palestina USA vehicles to clear Egyptian customs.
Mosquito bite
#1 on the list… MOSQUITOES! Irresistibly itchy bites are what keep us up late at night 
I think just about every single one of us living together (all the people from Southern California) has been bit several times and counting as you can’t swat mosquitoes while you’re fast asleep. Alexandria is situated near many swamps so there are many more mosquitoes here than Cairo. Most of us unfortunately didn’t bring bug repellant, so that’s something to remember for next time!
Second on the list would definitely be diarrhea… but I’ll leave it at that and say alHamdulilah/Thank God we came prepared for this one… Imodium 
AlHamdulilah, enough of the downsides. We’re in our third day in Alexandria, and overwhelmingly excited to head out for Gaza. InshaAllah/God-willing we hope customs will clear the vehicles tomorrow for us to head out and accomplish our mission to Gaza.