Military training course.... MY ASS!
Just after having the joy of breaking the pottery and leaving medicine school, turns out that I had to do one last thing to get to my internship year and what better thing to do than a full two weeks of mandatory military training course!! I know it is nuts, isn't it?
Well, welcome to the middle east.
I have just got to the end of the first week and believe me, that did need lots of work and efforts to stand, probably more than the effort I did to pass surgery exams themselves!
First of, I have to wake up everyday at 5 o'clock to be able to get to the university in downtown Cairo at any time before 7:30 other wise I will be threatened by having to do it all once more from the start. A punishment that my nerves can't cope with these days, Doing it once is enough danger on my sanity
After arriving, at 7:30 and amongst 300 hundred other freshly graduated medicine students, I stand up in the campus doing stupid military marches in front of the amazed students of Faculty of Literature and Commerce who can't help giggling and laughing at the site of students saying stupid things like military idiots!
Man, Am I different from my early days! They wanted us to say stupid stuff and slogans like "If I am offered to choose between immortality and martyrdom I would answer saying I am a fighter, a fighter, a fighter" and " We are ready to sacrifice ourselves for Egypt's glory"
I mean, I had no trouble at all doing all the stupid marches and moves, but when it came to saying stupid slogans, My tongue got paralyzed, I don't believe in a single word of such idiotic words, I don't repeat them, even saying the National anthem seems harder than any other task in the world.
Words about heroes and the enemy no longer interest me, They even irritate me more than the thousands of insults and curses thrown on homosexuality and LGBT individuals, even when they are being said in front of the same ex - friend to whom I came out two years ago... I no longer care about his opinion, to me he is just a little rat!
But I had an oath never to say anything that I don't believe it.. I will never break it
Happy news to Israel!!
today, while having a lecture about Psychological tactics used in wars, the discussion took us to the current Egyptian - Algerian crisis and of course according to our lecturer the officer (My ass again!) he thinks that the Mosad did it all... nothing new at all
The happy news was the response he got, 300 hundred angry students not buying his shit for a cent.... He kept referring to Israel as the enemy then one student asked him," What enemy do you mean?" he replied ,"How many enemies do you have?" and the answer was almost from everyone in the hall repeating : NONE
I mean it is so ridiculous to throw every trouble and every failure of our precious governments on Israel to take the blame, this is no longer acceptable... All students blamed Algeria directly for the crisis and those who blamed someone else, threw their curses on both Qatar and Iran...
I guess, even Egyptians are starting to change.
Anyway, we have a proverb here and it says "If a dog has something you dearly want, call him sir!" I do guess you got the point... I need to finish this week to graduate at last, even if it means that I will have to kiss some homophobic stupid Egyptian army asses... as long as I don't say any stupid words against my beliefs...
Military training in the civil university , Ha! way to go Mubarak !! well done baby, keep the good work just to stay in power... What is left more to do: Islamic religious teachings in a Church!!? well, I can expect anything from you...
By the way, this is just a personal reminder for me: I must post something about the stupid military domination in Egypt and Israel.. such a nice idea
Well, welcome to the middle east.
I have just got to the end of the first week and believe me, that did need lots of work and efforts to stand, probably more than the effort I did to pass surgery exams themselves!
First of, I have to wake up everyday at 5 o'clock to be able to get to the university in downtown Cairo at any time before 7:30 other wise I will be threatened by having to do it all once more from the start. A punishment that my nerves can't cope with these days, Doing it once is enough danger on my sanity
After arriving, at 7:30 and amongst 300 hundred other freshly graduated medicine students, I stand up in the campus doing stupid military marches in front of the amazed students of Faculty of Literature and Commerce who can't help giggling and laughing at the site of students saying stupid things like military idiots!
Man, Am I different from my early days! They wanted us to say stupid stuff and slogans like "If I am offered to choose between immortality and martyrdom I would answer saying I am a fighter, a fighter, a fighter" and " We are ready to sacrifice ourselves for Egypt's glory"
I mean, I had no trouble at all doing all the stupid marches and moves, but when it came to saying stupid slogans, My tongue got paralyzed, I don't believe in a single word of such idiotic words, I don't repeat them, even saying the National anthem seems harder than any other task in the world.
Words about heroes and the enemy no longer interest me, They even irritate me more than the thousands of insults and curses thrown on homosexuality and LGBT individuals, even when they are being said in front of the same ex - friend to whom I came out two years ago... I no longer care about his opinion, to me he is just a little rat!
But I had an oath never to say anything that I don't believe it.. I will never break it
Happy news to Israel!!
today, while having a lecture about Psychological tactics used in wars, the discussion took us to the current Egyptian - Algerian crisis and of course according to our lecturer the officer (My ass again!) he thinks that the Mosad did it all... nothing new at all
The happy news was the response he got, 300 hundred angry students not buying his shit for a cent.... He kept referring to Israel as the enemy then one student asked him," What enemy do you mean?" he replied ,"How many enemies do you have?" and the answer was almost from everyone in the hall repeating : NONE
I mean it is so ridiculous to throw every trouble and every failure of our precious governments on Israel to take the blame, this is no longer acceptable... All students blamed Algeria directly for the crisis and those who blamed someone else, threw their curses on both Qatar and Iran...
I guess, even Egyptians are starting to change.
Anyway, we have a proverb here and it says "If a dog has something you dearly want, call him sir!" I do guess you got the point... I need to finish this week to graduate at last, even if it means that I will have to kiss some homophobic stupid Egyptian army asses... as long as I don't say any stupid words against my beliefs...
Military training in the civil university , Ha! way to go Mubarak !! well done baby, keep the good work just to stay in power... What is left more to do: Islamic religious teachings in a Church!!? well, I can expect anything from you...
By the way, this is just a personal reminder for me: I must post something about the stupid military domination in Egypt and Israel.. such a nice idea