"you-know-you-lived-in-Khartoum-when...."

i somehow stumble upon this while google-ing for Tutti Frutti ice cream here in Khartoum.
So funny....n yet, so true! Hahaaa.... ;)

- you went to Afra Mall for your first week but never went back after.

- your main work from Monday to Wednesday is to find out how to place your name on a guest list for a Thursday evening party.

- the DJ for those parties was Seif.

- you think that 35 to 39° C is a good outside temperature.

- you were involved / witnessed rickshaw crash.

- you had 2 occasions in a year to wear a sweater.

- every Friday morning you take breakfast to Ozone and say hello to everybody out there.

- after that you go to the swimming pool at the Sudan German club, and complain about the huge number of people in the water.

- you know that Al Hawi is cheaper than Amarat centre.

- you have something coming from the small Omdurman leather shop (you think it is a secret address but everybody knows it).

- you saw ashtrays made with baby crocodile heads.

- you know that the French Cultural Centre is the only place for discovering Sudanese culture.

- you hated at first but finally enjoyed non-alcoholic beer, especially the fruit flavoured ones.

- you prefer Universal Café ice creams to Tutti Frutti’s ones, and Tutti Frutti’s ones to Ozone ice creams.

- you live in Khartoum II, Amarat and Riyad. Elsewhere is another town.

- you enjoy to turn your air conditioner on 18°C only in order to sleep with a blanket.

- you think that every foreigner in Sudan is working for UN or NGOs.

- you still not understand why you have to pay to leave the country
(isn’t it like being an hostage ? ).

- it was quite hard to get adapted to the country at your arrival
…but after a while you like it.

- you have never read so many books in your life.

- you’ve been drinking any sort of alcohol packed in small bags.

- you employ and pay tradesmen to fix things, (air-conditioners,
toilets etc) only to find it is A: still broken afterwards, or B:
worse than before.

- the power goes out and you continue eating/cooking your dinner,
even though you can't see it. You know the generator will start up
soon.

- you have created your own names for landmarks... Barista Street,
Power Pole Road, the Egg, the Roundabout of Death etc and you use
these names when giving people directions.

- you clean your white clothes in brown water.

- you start enjoying a hot water shower even in the heat of summer.

- you return from abroad, your luggage includes several bottles of
"water"

- you see that the outside world does have more then one paved road!

- seeing people walking around with AK47 as norm.

- the words 'bukara enchala' makes you cringe especially when spoken
about your broken ac!

- you receive daily phone call from people you don't know, speaking
a language that you don't know also

- you start loving the wine served in airplanes or airports.

- you were sweating without doing any thing.

- you promise not to come back before at least one year and two
month later, you sign another contract for one year more.

- you go for a barbecue on the Nile and you come back with malaria.

- you know exactly everytime where is the East.

;p