10 Reasons I love Sudan

To you,
            There are ten reasons I love my homeland Sudan,

1- The food is really good. God I'd love me some "shayyat seekh" right now.

2- You're never alone. On times of ease and hardships, your extended family will always support you and show you how much they care.

3- Weddings! Sudanese weddings can be very dramatic, but the whole process of preparing for a relative's wedding is spectacular.

4- When you need help, almost everyone offers a hand.

5- The wise grandmother (haboba), who never fails to make you feel better after a talk with her.

6- Family gatherings, when your whole family get together to eat, and gossip, and point out who's not married yet.

7- That sense of tragedy you get when you wake up to find out that it's been raining all night, so you predict how many ponds are going to be on the way you take to get to work/college/school . lol

8- Witnessing a fight on a haf'la (bus). Always so funny.

9- Those familiar strangers you see every morning when you're heading to work/college/school, but never really talked to them.

10- That feeling of greatness you get when you spend a whole day without facing the sun. (doesn't happen a lot though)
                      With Love

Mowasalat (101): General Guidelines

To you,
            Here are some guidelines in terms of taking Mowasalat in Sudan (Public Transportation)

* Haf'la (The Bus)

 You gotta be really smart when it comes to haf'la, because you have two things to bear in mind:
1) The duration of the trip from point A to point B (including the gazillion times it would stop to drop and pick up passengers), and add an estimation of the time you'd probably wait so you could find a bus with an empty chair. (specially if you're going out in the busy hours).

2) That there's an 85% chance there's going to be a fight on that bus. 50% chance it'll be you fighting with the kumsari (the collector).


*Raksha
Raksha drivers will always try to rip you off. therefore you should agree on the money before you take the raksha.
You only take a raksha if:

1) You have absolutely zero time to waste (he'll probably waste it anyway with all the "shortcuts")

2) There's no haf'la to the place you want to get

3) The sun's too hot - if you're a hankoosh (soft)


 note: 1- Rakshas are not allowed to cross bridges.
         2- It was scientifically proven that a raksha can carry up to 7 medium sized females.



*Amjad

Amjad drivers often love to talk about politics and curse the government, so never reply back to them.

It's only useful when you're crossing a bridge and you're very late.
Otherwise never take an amjad, it's too expensive for crying out loud!





*Hiace or (Hayis)

Like a haf'la, it has a known point A to point B price. Apparently it has different stops than haf'las.









                                                                                           
          With Love.

Different does not always mean worse.

To you,
         

            I'm not sure about a lot of things, but one thing i'm sure of is that the world today is not the same as yesterday. Our generation is completely different from our parents'. We dress differently, we speak differently, and hence have different interest than what they had when they were our age.

But different does not always mean worse. 

What i'm trying to say is, although we cannot control all the events happening to the world around us, you can still control your behavior, and desire to improve yourself. I mean, why settle with what you got when you can be a better person?

Find a topic that interests you

-Read a book about it OR

-Watch a video OR

-Ask the experts

THEN practice what you have learned 

It does not matter how knowledge is obtained, what matters is that now you know!

                                                                           

                                                                                                                             With Love