susan elsagir's

stop the clash of civilization!

are we that different?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWyJJQbFago

soon coming on ...

http://www.susanelsagir.vox.com

Listening to: ayo. pink. barbara. billie. closer. patrice,,,

la musique
favorite 07.

 down on my knees.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_laMjmR5nM&mode=related&search= 
help is coming.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTPZD_CZVuw&mode=related&search=
visiting taratata.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ytkh6b08wM&mode=related&search=

 dear mr. president http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6DEh0eSpNvY&mode=related&search=

 memories.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-KPGh3wysw&mode=related&search
send in the clowns.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0tTCaFEEKI&mode=related&search=

 one for my baby.http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=R7llu2aQRSQ&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtUzdI5hlE 

 can't take my eyes off you.http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=cDL8juJ5uBc&mode=related&search=

love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-Pe879Z8U
sunshine.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2d9YHwIA5c
http://www.patriceonline.net/dvd_live/index-de.html

circus.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ErmbDfd4k

Listening to: samba

brazil. 

amir visited his father in brazil.

most kids around here are building
their sandcastles in the netherlands
or the north of germany at the beaches.
but how does it sounds when you're
telling someone, "oh a few weeks
ago i was at ipanema beach or
copacabana playing in the sand
and doing the surfing..."

it sounds really good. but the sand
is the same and amir did enjoy
staying together with armin - his father -
who is actually working in brazil - 
no matter where they meet each
other...

but before we visited the afifis in cairo. 

so now have a look inside...

susan. 

cairo.


sarah. mariam. amir. tabea.

the whole family. tabea. amir. hatem.
aunt nadra. sarah. mariam.
and last but not least dina.

cyber-world is everywhere.

 
going to alex by train. hatem took us to ramses-
station and was joking with the kids.

alexandria.






ina. trying to prepare breakfast.




now this is kareem. he wasn't really there....
he was still sleeping....
correction: as kareem told me via comment,
he was just hungry!!!!!


kareem is writing stories. the day before
he was present on a filmset. cause they
really made a film of his ideas...




ina was so happy having us
with her in alexandria. no. don't
really know, why she was laughing
like this... :-)



 






this is the trukeria. it's made for
meeting friends, relaxing, having
a tea or ashrab shisha there. it's a
must in alex.

 

 
the new library of alexandria. outside and .... inside.

 
celebration of amirs 6th birthday at midnight.

 
the ladies of the house.

 
sisters. susan + ina.

cairo.sinai.cairo.
with friends!

joyning the new years eve via internet round the
world until we reached rio de janeiro, where armin
(amirs father) currently lives. so we celebrated the
new years eve three times encloding being together
with neighbours of our area.

ina and fatih were with us.

 
sisters and the little prince.

 
??? + amir.

 
tabea on her favorite seat - the hammock.

roberts birthday.

autumn 2006 on the farm. somewhere in westerkappeln. 

a weekend spending our time by riding horses. wandering.
feeling the nature. yes! ... 

berlin.

may i introduce olga. olga is our exchange of students
from riga, lettland.  she is joyning me and my family
cause of learning german and knowing a "typical
german family". now i think here she is right. :-)

welcome olga.

visiting robert and dancing salsa was the main
priority in berlin. so we did.

susan. 

olga

tacheles

melanie

robert

sister + brother

now we are back home again. tabea visited her grand-
parents and was flying to budapest. amazing, she did
this  already twice without being afraid of. it's really
courageous for a girl of the age of 9. isn't it? but after
arriving in budapest, her grandparents as well as her
cousin marius picked her up, took her in their warm
arms of family and  went  to serbia.

this is the big chance for all children resulting from
a family of 2 or more different nationalaties. they all
have the chance to jump between different cultures,
landscapes and influences. in this point the elsagirs
are truly rich in. :-)

what evolution, technology and world wide business
serves us, is that the whole world gets closer together
as we know, all people and nationalities, cultures are
going to remix more and more. the only thing we have
to do is, to life this kind of evolution encluding living
our individuality and individual culture we're coming
from or feeling inside our hearts. that's the way ...

but i don't wanna talk about all this global ideas. the
message is: it will become 'normal' (what is really normal?)
having such family constallation regarding the future.
hopefully it is not a point of splitting your soul into
"where do i belong to". It's a chance. so take your
chance ... 

amir and me liked to see the sea. so we traveled to the
NL in this well known little - very little - town named
domburg. nice place specially when you stay next to
the beach and have tropical temperatures that even
the north sea was so hot. very nice accommodation 
(there's a link in my linklist) - allways important for me
- nice atmosphere - these sweet little houses every-
where - friendly people - even the german tourists
(mostly 'rheinländer') and the feeling of to be some-
where else, in a different place than home. but also
a nice place to stay. 

so, no problem finding friends there. amir found two
little surf-ladies at the beach. after one day he was a
surfer too. me, i had small talks to the little ladies
parents and other people around. also i tried to
juggle as i learnt 10 years ago in paris - and it
worked again :-) i'm very proud of it. i even found
a juggle partner who could do it with four
juggle balls. not me, i limited and trained it just with
three. he told me, that you'll never loose it,
if you are able to make it once. it's a little bit like 
riding a bike ... 

so please enjoy some of our impressions ...
until the next entry.

susan.

first kommunion of tabea.

the white looking girl.

mai 21st '06.

...see on www.elsagir.cabanova.de/page4.html.

http://www.elsagir.cabanova.de

the trip to egypt.

april 28th until mai 03rd '06.


what came across me was . . . 

to be welcome.
to be familia'.
being sad - cause of losing
a member of the family.
sensibility of my emotions.
being confused by organizing all the
duties in fact of the fathers death.
to be in need of having not just
a translater - even a mediator -
for a better understanding.
being happy about the final support.
being happy having such a
family in egypt.
the oriental feeling i have inside.
the confirmation of knowledge and
feeling -  that all people all over the
world want and need the same and
have to be very well educated to reach
their "open mind".
at last - acceptance and under-
standig of all the difference between
"my" two countries - al amdu lel ah.
feeling like an ambassadress even
regarding practising religion.
feeling of being connected.
to feel having spent there 6 weeks
instead of really 5 days.
after returning back to germany
my soul needed a little longer to
come home.
at the end - feeling much richer
round about - en schaa allah.

the rest is between these lines ...
is in readers imagination...

susan.

special thanks to hatem, dina, aunt nadra,
uncle mahmoud, sarah and little mariam
in cairo
fahmy, salma, uncle mahmoud and
uncle sayed in port-said
mona, also cairo as an abassadress too.

Ahmed Mohamed Elsagir (El-Saghir) 
passed away on 19th of April 2006 in
his home town Port-Said in Egypt.
We (his family here in Germany)
are very very sad about his
unforeseeable death ...

This is for all of his friends he had all
over the world ...

Susan and Ina (two of his daughters) 

Ahmed Mohamed Elsagir (El-Saghir)
verstarb am 19. April 2006 in seiner
Heimatstadt Port-Said in Ägypten.
Wir (seine Familie hier in Deutschland)
sind sehr sehr traurig über seinen
plötzlichen Tod ...

Dies ist für all seine Freunde in der
ganzen Welt ...

Susan und Ina (zwei seiner Töchter)

growing up ...

tabea march 2006.

crazy pix between

- the kids et moi ...

from our mobile telephone ...

spheres.

welcome to my sphere. . . spheres are the

space where human beings live in,

if they are able to become human beings ...

cause living always means building spheres ...

to live in spheres means to create a dimension,

where human beings could exist.

so come in and n-joy...  susan