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The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck

1. Do things that you consider embarrassing.
2. Accept, or deal with, awkwardness. Clintons’ method for earning respect in politics is this:
   “If someone pushes you, push back twice as hard” — Clinton
3. Refuse boundaries.
4. Tell the truth.
5. Begin your new life.

Take back your self respect. Do it today— try it right now. Wear something ugly. Do something stupid. Tell someone the truth.

First Days AThe Army

Day 1 - Saturday

Went with @SherifSharkawy to Giza at Rimaya sqr, met with 2 people going to army meeting point and they took us in their car.

From their we met with Ali Mohsen, then waiting looooong time till the bus came to take us to Training Camp. The bus then took us to “Mosha 2” Camp. We waited long time till they finished checking our bags —for mobile phones and anything that can be used as a weapon. we went to get our “Me5la” then checked its contents to make sure nothing is missing. Waited for another round to go to our “3anbar” & they gave us our index number —mine was 117— then finally went to our rooms & slept like I never slept before. Kateeba 2, Sareya 4, Fasela 2

Day 2 - Sunday

One of the hardest days as they threw us under the sun for most of the time with drops of water to receive the rest of our cloth.

Day 3 - Monday

Was the first day of training, and

Next days kinda had the same routine, and you get used to it.

At Maadi

• Nice people
• Nice rooms
• clean w.c with hot water
• place is clean with places to eat and drink
• our non-commissioned officers —saff zabet— treated us very good
• its good to adapt a system with speed in everything
• my body gets harder everyday
• [Negatives] some stupid people cause us to get “takdeer”
• [Negatives] Its boring to eat the same food everyday
• [Negatives] Its hard to talk on the phone Anyway I’m enjoyed my stay there

Army Tuesday 26/04/2011

They started to take soldiers to their service stations. We are waiting @ anytime to be taken at any time. general emotion is FEAR rumors are going that there is war & others saying that they will take same of us during the last couple of days, I beileve that i’m going to Alexandria & I hope for everyone to go there too. I’m trying to be as positive as possible.

So far so good, my experience is good I felt good before the couple of three days, after that I feld boredom so much, now its kinda exciting to be waiting for our transportation. The environment around me right now is kinda depressing, not like they were before, everyone is exchanging their phone numbers expecting to be taken at any moment.

My eyes hurt as hell and i don’t want to visit the doctor again because its troublesome, and last rumor said that we are not going to be around on Friday.

Days passed so fast I don’t even remember they passed. Army wan’t as bad as i expected. it was intresting & i learned so much from it. I was hoping to be trained on shooting but we still have 2 days & there is some hope left. Right now i’m just thinking about 3 things, have an awesome shower, take phone numbers and call mom.

Wednesday

They called my name & Ali came to tell me that my unit will be “Ba7areya”. I hurried up to the “menasa” then went back to prepare my bag then threw everything in quickly inside “me5la” and went back to them. As i was waiting i took phone numbers of my firends. We went to get our stuff in my case books, then we went to markaz el nakleyat el ba7ary till mandoob comes to take us. There was no place to sleep so we slept on the floor but we slept like babies. The place we were had the nile as the back yard, how awesome is that. alot of birds and fish, so far i saw “5orab”, eagles, ducks, humming birds, pigeons and others that i don’t remember.

Thursday

We woke up early, finished cleaning up then they asked us to life some rocks from point to another one. the job was hard as i never did anything like this before and i felt the suffering of daily workers. we spent hours doing this till 3:10 pm. they gave us something to drink then we continued working little bit then stopped due to lack of workers. we went to eat & get cleaned up . after that it was our rest and i sat on the bench infront of the nile reading “predictions, of Nostradamos” till the sun went down. me and khaled went to eat something then got to bed.

Friday

woke up 5:10 am, went to the bathroom then did some training infron of the nile. we cleaned up our sleeping place. i’m now writing some notes under this beautiful sunlight whith birds flying around me. i hope that we don’t work today so i can spend this time reading. 6:30 couple of fishmen passing by going to get some fish … we did some cleanup for toilts then tood a rest till after prayer. we started moving rocks again till we finished half the bricks. they did somekind of a play infront of us about working at night, but we didn’t work after that so we took a rest till the end of the day

Saturday

woke up as usual did our cleanup sections, moved some rocks then went to get cleaned up for our mandoob to take us. we prepared ourselves then got divided into 2 groups to go to the train. we waited as the second group then we met them there. We took the military train which was a new experience and enjoyable one, then we got to moharam bek and went to markaz el mohemat in ras el teen.

At Markaz el na2leyat el ba7ary

• Scenery is awesome as we are positioned in front of the Nile.
• There is not much work
• Food is a lot better than our training place
• Not a lot of people here wich meakes it calm
• No boring stuff like we used to do in our training camp
• BUT Sleep here sucks, a lot of noise and very hot weather
• Bathrooms are much cleaner than before BUT water is very weak if someone is using the bathroom

One of the best moments was

When I told someone whose bed was next to mine “We are going to be Bayareya and in Alexandria”. He laughed and didn’t believe me and placed his bet. And when they were calling people who were going to Ba7areya —btw they took about 13 out of 1000— they called my name and his. and now we are in the same room the chair next to me in the computer room at “Sho3bet tanzeem wa 2edara”

It was a good experience and I’m still trying to hold onto that spirit till I finish my army on 1/6/2012