So, here we are, still stuck in our little slice of heaven.
Still no news from the Ministry of Health about when or if we will be released.
There is now 15 hours until our plane leaves for Dahab. We are packed and our bags are by the door incase we get “permission” to leave the building.
The doctor (who normally visits the dorm 3 days/week for office hours and is stuck here like the rest of us) said that Insha’allah the Ministry officials will be here soon (it is 10:15pm now) to let us know the results of some of the swabs and hopefully a timeframe for their decision.
Now, their decision may be “48 more hours of quarantine”.
So it is looking unlikely that we will escape to Dahab for our vacation.
If it gets delayed by more than a day or so, it becomes less worth making the trip, what with having to buy new tickets and still having to get back here to meet our packing/paperwork obligations prior to our final departure.
The good doctor kd is taking this hard. I am used to spending 2 or 3 days in the flat without leaving. She is getting stir crazy, and the control freak in her is having trouble with not having control of her destiny.
Of course tomorrow may be a lot less rosy for me as well. I am currently drinking the last beer in the house! :-O
BTW: FYE is an acronym used by AUC (at least they used to) as part of their orientation for new students. It officially stands for First Year Experience. I have redefined it to express my more heartfelt emotions about living here.
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God forbid you’re still stuck in there tomorrow, we’ll send you beer somehow! If you can get pizza delivered, Drinkies should be willing to deliver! :p
Last beer? The horror!
Jack: to make it worse: The last beer was a BELGIAN beer.
Procured at great expense and trouble from a shady character named Ahmed, with a camel, one eye and a fez (Err, the camel had two eyes. and the fez wasn’t on the camel… Let me start over)
It was a dark and stormy night…
Ah, fuck it.
I AM OUT OF BEER
Which Belgian beer was it? At least you went out in style!
Jack and KD, I’m sending all sorts of positive karma waves your way that this settles out, so you two can get away and have a break to regroup, so the process of getting out of there at your main departure at the end all goes well. I’ve been following all the blog postings from both you and KD for the whole time you have been there, and fell you both have the right frame of mind to make it through this new travail.