I've just returned from a a Ramadan tent. Ramadan tents are ones that get set in many places by vulenteering individuals in Raman to feed whoever can't make it at breakfast (which is the first meal after fasting, and comes by sun set). Those usually are the poor and those traveling and still far from home or any place they can buy food from.
So, as an Egyptian, I never went to such, or even thought of going. As I was saying, it's a place for the poor, so, by getting there, you are either saying you are so poor, or (which would mostly apply to me if I dare), you'd be eating what's for the poor, which doesn't seem so ethical. Today, I've just come from one. I found somehow that Alya, our office regulator, told the new cool tester Kent (new to Egypt, not to Silver Key), -who had to pay so much for food first day- about these tents saying something like “Did you pay for food in Ramadan?!! How come, while you have all those FREE places!”.
So, today, Kent took me and Dody (my guru project manager) to one of these tents! It was quite a cool new experience to me, having welcoming people, trying to say anything in English, and offering us food as offering all others on the long tables. Remember that I look like a foreigner, so, we were like a bunch of forgivers hanging around in a tour place than poor fellows going out of the office for breakfast :).
What can I say about it? Nothing much really, it's just a new different thing. We had this warm food, and enjoyed people tries to communicate with us (there was no much talk in fact, other than “feed those coming“, “you want more“ and “thank you“ going everywhere over the tables), and food itself tasted like a home-made family food(rice, soup and meat). We finished eating then Kent and Dody thought if there may be some way we would pay for it, but we agreed that people working on this would never accept money for it, as they'd rather the return from God. It was funny though how Kent thought that we might just hide some money somewhere in the place for them!
Hmm, this was just a small example of what I'm living here in Silver Key. Many new experiences, technical and non-technical. It's really cool to belong to this family. I never was so glad to this extend before belonging to somewhere/something.
Thank you Kent and Dody for this cool experience :) :) :).
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