Thursday, October 9, 2008

First break fast on Air


It was the first day in Ramadan the Holly month, 1st of September 2008, the day of which we suppose to leave to Norway me and my college Mohammad. Unusual day,, full of action, exactly like what we see in movies. we are not fully prepared yet to travel because we have some procedures we have to follow so as to be able to leave at 15:00 pm. Mohammad has to see the national service to get permission from them, then together we have to have yellow fever vaccination and to get the certificate as attachment to the passports, then we have to get the exit visas. to do this we started moving early by National service office to get Mohammad's permission, and that was from 7:30 to 10:45 am, during that I went to the Red Crescent head quarter to see the public relationship officer to get the passports for yellow fever vaccination. After that I drove back to pickup Mohammad and suddenly I mad an accident with the car and it was horribly affected, and I'm very lucky that I didn't get hurt. So I called Mohammad by phone and I asked hem to take a taxi back to Red Crescent head quarters, while I have to pull the car to head quarters too and to inform the owner to get it from there, after paying the cost of fixing of course. then the first challenge was over, and we started the second phase by taking my motorcycle from head quarters heading to the hospital for the yellow fever vaccination, and we finished with that at 1:30 pm. then we went back to head quarter and we gave our passports to the public relationship officer for the exit visa, and we succeeded with that by 14:30, then we parked the motorcycle and we took red Crescent car back to our house and we picked up our luggage, and finally,,, we are in the air port. at 15:00 pm. while a driver from Red Crescent came and took the car back.
Long trip from Khartoum through Cairo and Amsterdam up to Oslo, took around 14 hours with connections. started at 18:00 pm from Khartoum, ended at 11: am next day in Oslo.
we started fasting in Khartoum before departure, and we had our first breakfast in Ramadan on the Air, the captain of Egypt airlines was not sure when is the breakfast time exactly, so he told us to Waite until he observes sunset and then he will declare FATOUR for us. I was so hungry looking out of the window, and the sun refused to set down, woo, we are 36000 feet up, so how it goes down while we are up with her??? . Finally captain declared FATOUR at 19:16 pm after 1 and half hour flying from Khartoum,