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| The moving truck looked exactly like this except it didn’t have this many things on it. |
Moving in Egypt is way different than moving in America. It is harder than moving in America (At least compared to Pennsylvania). The biggest reason for that is because most of Cairo is apartments. Once I saw these elevated platforms going up to the apartment and taking down couches and other furniture through the window.
So our old house had many problems: such as mice and mold and other nasty things. One day we got sick of these things and it was time to move. So we decided to move to a house on the same street but bigger and better.
We hired these guys which showed up in a big white truck and loaded our couches and tables to the back. Then they went to the other house and brought the things up to our new apartment. This was the first time I’d seen something like this, they were loading our stuff into a truck, with the back open.
We offered them juice and soda after we were completely done moving and they thanked us took their money and left. See in America there wouldn’t be much interaction with the moving guys, but it also would be way more professional, they wouldn’t be using trucks and stuffing the furniture onto it. So there are good differences and bad differences.
Our new house
Our house is a pretty new house which was painted and cleaned right before we moved. However we noticed that whoever painted the walls didn’t paint them pretty well, the paint was good but it was splattered all over the ground.
I remember scraping off the dried paint from the ground with a knife, oh what troubles we had to go through to make our house good…
Our new house is great, bigger, better, cleaner. The only thing that I still haven’t gotten used to for the 3 weeks I’ve been here is the location. When I first came I didn’t get used to the place right away. This might sound weird, but I couldn’t get used to the calm surroundings. Our old house was in a more colorful and noisy surrounding however this house is in a more quiet and dull one. I already miss the sound of the steam from the ironers across the street that iron clothes the whole night, that is the sound we used to sleep with. The only thing I don’t like about this place is it’s calmness.
Other than the silence, our new house is way better and way bigger. There’s three good-sized rooms and three bathrooms. You can imagine what a delight it is having three bathrooms in a house of six students. We used to have only one in the old one and now the struggle of arguing for bathroom turns is over.
And yes it does get better than that, our new house is in 5 minutes walking distance from our house. You might be thinking why this this is better than the bathroom struggle, it’s better because it gives us 5 more golden minutes of sleep. This might not seem too important however a last 5 minutes of sleep for a student is like the last 5 minutes of a soccer game, it can make a world of difference before shooting that last goal and waking up.:)
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