Across the Nile and Back Again – Part 1/3

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Family, friends of me and Joel. Joel, where are you? He’s not
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paying attention. Hi. Okay, so this is a new video. How do I
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turn you around? Oh, *meow.
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How do I turn it around? Show me before I do this. Hey, I couldn’t
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figure out my phone, So Joel am I getting me. Hi. Say hi. Hi.
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Hi, this is our house which I’ll show you later. This is our very,
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very good friend Auf.
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Say hi Auf. Hello. He speaks amazing English, better than my
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English, which is kind of sad.
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So… I speak just Arabic and Spanish, English, Italian. Little bit
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German. I know [Japanese]
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This is by Japan.
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Wow. That’s how many languages he speaks. So this is a video to
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show you our trip from the house over to the Nile because we’re
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going to the East Bank tonight for a little bit because I gotta
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go to the pet store. This is our street. Say hello. This is Flash,
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one of the dogs. So we have to stop at the galabia store first,
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at the tailor. And this is the motorbike that Auf drives us
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around on. So I… this is going to be a little bit of a chaotic
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video because I want you to see what we’re doing, so bear with
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me. But we’re going to the tailor first because the galabia,
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which I will show you is the traditional dress. Oh, it was
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what Auf was wearing. It’s the traditional dress of Egypt for
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the men. And Joel has definitely embraced his Egyptian roots and
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actually prefers to wear a galabia now, and as you saw he also
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prefers to wear a scarf. So Andrea and Dick be aware that
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when your son comes home, he probably won’t be wearing hats
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anymore. He will be wearing scarves, so he will have more
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scarves then his mother and his sisters put together. [inaudible] Oh, okay.
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So, this is our road. Now, you guys saw in the video before that’s
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the way to the farm. And then that’s the archeological dig
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they’re doing, they did recently find a new sekmet which is
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one of those statues, so they’re all hullabaloo. I don’t even
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know. So this is our drive down our main street when we want to
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go get stuff what stuff. What stuff do we get going this way. Beer. We get beer
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going this way. We get peanuts, Fresh peanuts going this way. We
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get wine going this way. Oh, the pharmacy where we have a very
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good friend is we we like to hang out at the electrician’s
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store and have tea while Auf has coffee. And they all smoke which
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is kind of gross, but that’s fine. They try to keep it away.
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Oh, and this is sugar cane. So with sugarcane harvest season
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and after they do it they leave it out on the street and these
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trucks come by and they pick it up and take it to the factory
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and I don’t know… Oh, look there’s a… This is a statue of Mumnun,
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two biggest statues for Amun Hotep III. The entrance for
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the temple was between the statue, and the secret system
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works till now. And when the winds are windy you can hear the statue
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screaming, like to scare anyone he wants to steal from
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the temple.
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And these are, are the guards. And I wave to them every day so
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that they do not arrest me for doing anything I shouldn’t be
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doing.
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Which happens a lot. Which happens a lot. But then we also
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have… we also have, oh… This is our pump machine. I don’t know
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if you can see it, let’s see if I can do this. That’s how the
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water that Auf pumps into the fields to farm, which is… our
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farm butts up against the edge of what they’re doing at the
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archeological dig. So there is a little bit of tension every once
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in a while because there’s only a road between us. And we walk
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up and down it and people think we’re tourists but we’re not so.
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So then continuing down. This might be a long video people so
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don’t watch this if you’re driving (Brian) or at work unless
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you can take a break. I don’t want to be responsible for
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someone dying. So you can see, so now you can tell that each
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section of farm sometimes is growing different stuff. Right
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now it’s mostly wheat. It is almost wheat harvest. Auf thinks
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he will start harvesting on the 10th but we’ll see. Oh no wait, today’s the 10th. On Friday. What’s Friday? The 13th. Yeah, so
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these are all different farmers that own these sections of land.
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You don’t necessarily have the same farmer owning land all
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right next to each other, and then they have different parcels.
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This is agriculture school. This is the agriculture school and
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you’ll see a big white section, that’s Auf’s land that he loans
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so that they can dry tomatoes. So there’s nothing on it right
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now. But like a week ago, there was this whole field full of
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tomatoes drying. No preservatives people, no
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preservatives. This is another guard station. We don’t see them
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very often. So this is going into town. Sorry if it’s windy.
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I don’t remember what school this is Auf. That’s the City Council.
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City Council! I should know that since that used to be my job.
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But that’s fine. Oh, we’re stopping. I think we’re stopping,
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are we stopping? Oh, this is our Tailor right here. Okay, I will
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start the video after the Tailor. Love you. Bye. Hey Everyone.
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This is our Tailor and Joel. This is Joel is currently under galabia.
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It’s too long. Say hi Auf. Auf say Hi. Hi! He’s getting it
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hemmed up. I know he looks like a weirdo right now, but you
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should see him in the galabia. We’re also here because he’s
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picked out new material, these two. A dark, dark black and a tan
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to get new galabias and then the white will go underneath.
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And then this is also his blue galabia that he’s already had
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made. But they… he wants… Most traditionally Egyptian men
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have… they have pockets in them, really big pockets. But then
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they have an extra pocket where you can like access your
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underwear. We call it a tuk tuk pocket. And Joel wants a tuk tuk
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pocket which it does not have. So we have to have a tuk tuk
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pocket made in addition to new new, new… See. Exactly. Thank you. Thank
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you for the, Thank you, Vanna. Now what’s, now what’s funny. No,
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I’m about to tell them. Do you want to tell them? Nooo?
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Respectful, I appreciate that. Mom, did you hear that? So, a
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tuk tuk, I don’t see a tuk tuk out here. It’s kind of like a
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half bike, half truck. When I see one I’ll show you. And
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anyways, the joke started like when we got here about basically
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you call someone’s penis a tuk tuk. So now all we do is make
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jokes about tuk tuks. Which when Auf is talking about… We’re
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talking about nothing. Yeah, except tuk tuks. When Auf is… ha,
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There’s the police. When Auf is talking about, like with a
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another guy about something, and they’re really talking about a
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tuk tuk, we find it very funny because in our minds it means
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penis. But Joel needs tuk tuk pockets in everything. So now
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he’s getting his black on.
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So, now Joel is in American wear. But that’s only because he had
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to bring his galabia in. He literally has been wearing the
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galabia and scarf. Every day whenever we do anything, except
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when we’re working and then he wears his work clothes. And all
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the Egyptian men are like ah, you look Egyptian, and he’s like
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yeah, yeah. That’s pretty much, because you don’t speak the language
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yet. So, that’s how it goes. There’s the sewing machine. And
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they see smoke shisha here, which is really bad for you but
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whatever. Okay, we’re getting measured now. Out of the way Auf!
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this is not your video, we’ll do your music video later!
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Is it supposed to drag on the ground? Is it? I don’t think so.
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This one, it’s good? Yeah. Okay, then he can make [Arabic]
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You’re good with that one other than the tuk tuk pocket
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missing. Okay. [Arabic]
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Joel, how do you feel about your shopping for galabias?
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I like my shopping for galabias. And your
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scarves? Look at this design. This is one of Joel’s own
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designs, Right? Or is this one of the ones… I guess. Auf his teaching him
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different designs for his scarf. And then he does sometimes where
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he covers his head and then sometimes not. It’s very
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dramatic over here. Okay, that’s the this video. The next video
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will be when we’re back on the road heading over to the East
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Bank, which we have to take a ferry to for over the Nile. See
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you in a minute.