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[QUOTE]Originally posted by harankash: [QB] Okay here we go. Today Jean and I had to go to Akbar Elyoum University in 6th October City. Anyone of you here study there? Anyone of you there about 2pm? If you were you would have seen the pantomime. We both very respectfully dressed in fact over dressed in the heat! We were accompanied by an assistant to a cafeteria. From the very second we entered the door, it seemed like some sort of wild rodeo show had started from the roars of the students. Both male and female! All females in Hijab all sitting cosy! with all the male students. Both Jean and I walked with the man to the counter and we could not be heard for the screaming and shouting in arabic directed at us. Immediately as I went to the counter one student left his seat and being egged on by the males and females in the room came and stood leaning against my arm and saying hi and a load of the usual crap to the raucous applause of the onlookers. Jean was trying to explain something and was having trouble being heard over the din. Now I can best describe the scene as being in a nursery school for chimpanzees with megaphones on full volume. As I stood there bewildered and looking at the tables of students all staring and laughing, making comments I was just totally disgusted. I slide my arm away from the one on my right and he turned to take a bow from his audience. Having had enough I went over to the table with the most student. About 12 of them mixed and asked if they spoke English. They all said yes. I then asked them collectively was this a university or a nursery school. I asked their ages to thunderous applause and to one specific girl in particular who was answering me checking with her male friends to see if she was funny enough. I stood there amazed and asked had they no respect for visitors to their university. They replied through the screaming with laughter yes we are children. I said yes you are very young ones at that. Like little 4 year olds to which they laughed even louder. I asked what was so funny and they had no reply. I said that it was shameful that visitors come to their university and see behaviour that most would not even see in a primary school. They were each trying to say things to me in broken English each trying to outdo the other in comedy. The next table up was a young man sitting with a young girl. He apologised for them. They were both embarassed ans said to just ignore them and told them to stop. They totally ignored him. I walked away back to the counter where Jean was talking with the man and they still ( it is hard to describe in detail but were almost in a frenzy of throwing, things, pushing and jostling each other whilst laughing and back slapping). I was so sad. I tried to imagine my university and 2 foreign women walking in and having to endure this fiasco? I just could not imagine it ever. As we walked outside I asked the assistant accompanying us 'how could he suffer this every day from supposedly adults in education and he just shrugged his shoulders. So out of a room of about maybe 40 students only one was embarassed enough to intervene. I was sad that half were hijab'd girls. ( and if their parents knew what was going on would not be paying next years fees for sure!). I was incredibly sad that this was your future. Your next parents, your next mothers and fathers, your lawyers and doctors. God help Egypt! :( [/QB][/QUOTE]
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