Sunday, February 05, 2006

The longest ride

Yesterday, we had the longest ride driving back from our National Conference.
Though it should have taken us an hour to get to Cairo, it took much longer, and felt longer than the drive from Alex to Sharm el sheikh.

The second bus carrying half of AIESEC Egypt, had a huge accident on the way, where the bus ran into a truck, that suddenly slowed down.
While everyone was fine, just some minor injuries, it was torture for us to have a phone call from girls crying histerically, and having to wait to find out how bad it was.

They were trapped in the bus for a few minutes since the front of the bus was very damaged and the door could not be opened, until the boys broke the windows and jumped out.
Their first instinct was to run after the truck driver and kick his ass - but the driver ran for his life, and they did not catch him - thank god for that, he would not have survived.

With a few injured people and a few girls in shock, we headed back to cairo after hours of trying to arrange everything.
The "men" assumed control of course and tried to manage the crisis - which of course could have been done more effectively, had the MC been in charge of the situation.
But the long night ended well, when we returned safely, to Cairo.

An unforgettable experience - a horrible night, with a good ending.

But i guess "Ende gut, alles gut!"

3 comments:

Shady said...

lula, thank god u and the others are okay..thank got nothing happened to u before we r 30 years old, or we ll have to change some things in the contract :P

Westy said...

hey Luli,

good to hear that everything is under control. It was weird trying to piece together the story from the .net postings. Hope everyone is okay,

w

Mix said...

I can imagine the craziness of the situation... and the frustration of a bunch of arab dudes trying to run the show. :)