Sinai Weekly Issue 68
Last week we received this e-mail from a Sharmer who requested it to be published. So here goes:
Dear Editor,
Refering to your page in sinai weekly last week, " celebrating Sinai", i think i have an interesting story about sharm "the far distance dream", thought you might like to hear it , or as for our case read it and maybe share it with the readers.
My life was based in a different country then Egypt much more like many sharmers, lived , grown, studied even constracting dreams all over there( Lebanon).Egypt was only a visit between summers. short story long, first time my eyes landed on sharm was when a Doctor in my college gave us an assignment for a brochure about each of the students original country and it's tourristics sight , activities and such ( media college, mass communications) something to attract the tourrists to.
without knowing, all i was doing was searching for anything special that may classify my country in the excellent or A+ level, other then the pyramids, and there it was the " charm of sharm" ,saw it in a TV ad. i kept searfing till i had the most amazing informations i could use for my assignment: pictures, blue pure water, the warm sun, the hospitality, the nature of desert, the diving, the night life, the jobs opportunities....whatever or howmuch i will describe it won't explain to you the image of my face glowing in front of the computer screen with a wide openned eyes and a drewling mouth. yes surprised and shocked how i didn't see this part of Egypt, the part of becoming a sharmer.
Anyway, i had my first A+ for the assignment, the Doctor was speachless with a million question marks on her face, she kept saying :" how? what? how?" i gave her a brochure full of activities and sightseeing and relaxing luxurious vacation for the whole family , even kids could have fun without bothering their parents , a full party in a way that concerns all ages, even little ones can have fun with trustfull supervisors who will take care to make your vacation m ore comforting. well she didn't know that i am simply an egyptian seaking to be a sharmer.
since that assignment, 5 years ago, sharm was a dream , "a far distance dream", a life style ,a goal to reach and here i am, newly wedded to an 8 years sharmer (of course it's another story) turning my life up side down in "the charm of sharm".
Care to see more story? i hope you do, please reply to me and let me see this next week on the sinai weekly.
Best Regards
Laura
Well Sharmers, please let us know if you want to read the continuation in one of our next issues,
Thank you,
Sincerely,
The Editor
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