Socials for oldies and newbies

what abt making it a friday as its a holiday for most of the people

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I know that there have been other 'meet-ups' planned on expatblog before and as much as I'd enjoy meeting new people, I can't help but feel paranoid that,this being a public forum and all, some individuals many try to take advantage and spoil an honest gathering.

eltviola, am in, thank you so much:) am in for sure and thank you again for supporting the new comers to Expat
Have a nice day

Hi Elaine,
I'm in too

Don't forget about tomorrow's social hope to meet lots of you there!
Elaine

Hey Panda bear,

I understand what you mean, but I finally managed to attend one (though briefly) and it was great. Maybe DM someone on the blog that you know will be going and relatively trust and swap mobiles and then meet up before hand, or bring a friend and if it's not what you expected you can peace out. Sorry to miss out on this one though...last day of teaching. Elaine, I'll txt you if I can join after class to see if you guys are still there. Have a great day all.

cheers,
J.

I'm in   ..ISA..
thanks Elaine

Thanks Stumble_On, maybe in the future I'll bring a friend along.

I'm in

Hi,
many people are going to the Couch Surfing bowling meet up on Friday (Check the separate forum topic for details) so I haven't organised a separate social this weekend. The following weekend I think we should do something the following Thursday or Friday (assuming we survive the paintballing...!)
Any suggestions for Friday (20th) anyone?
Otherwise I'll suggest something

Elaine

OK thanks, that's fine if it's what the majority want I'm not really into dancing, so personally I prefer just chatting in a nice relaxed atmosphere, but some places have both. Concerts are fun, agreed, but need more organising and may not be to everyone's taste. Anyone know of any events happening on the 20th or 21st?

there is a cool bedwin cafe in a big hill in front of the pyramids called basata cafe,and from there u can get horses
and they have a great way of BBQ they put the girll in front of u and u can eat from it directly,we can have shisha also we can dance they have a good dj and sound system there

or we can have a day use in Amarante hotel,,,i can have a good discount there,,,,,we can swim and enjoy the sun

eltviola wrote:

Hi,
many people are going to the Couch Surfing bowling meet up on Friday (Check the separate forum topic for details) so I haven't organised a separate social this weekend. The following weekend I think we should do something the following Thursday or Friday (assuming we survive the paintballing...!)
Any suggestions for Friday (20th) anyone?
Otherwise I'll suggest something

Elaine

Looks like we're making progress and the forums are become active!

So...

- Bowling on Friday 13th
- Paintballing on Friday 20th (as suggested by Amgad)

What about horse-riding on the 27th? Another Expat.com  member (Boby moon) owns stables and I have ridden  in the desert close to Saqqara pyramids, and it was fantastic - thoroughly enjoyable. Some may consider his prices as being steep, BUT the horses are PERSONALLY looked after in such a wonderful way, and are beautiful. (Okay, I'll stop advertising... just thought I'd put it out there for anyone interested. )

Horse-riding, good suggestion :-) Sadly I'll be away for two weekends from that date, but if you can organise it I'm sure you'll get some attendance I'm all for supporting people who take care of their animals properly Thanks my dear

ok so Paintballing on Friday the 20th in the afternoon - can we have some definite numbers please? I think I need to book in advance. Post on here by Wednesday if you're up for it.

I also propose a social at the Marriott hotel in Zamalek (it's one of my fav places ) on Thursday 19th from 8pm, in the palace gardens. This way it'll be before we're bruised and battered from paintball!

Hope to see lots of you there.

Elaine
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Elain, I love Marriot so much, really
And i didnt play "Paint balling before"I love to play and do new things i didnt do before, sound interesting
Love u all guys

MMMMMMM....
i wished to meet u in this gathering, specially am new here and wanted to experience this Paint Ball, but unfortunately i cant make it

hope to c u all in another gathering.

Lili 

i wish i was there too , continuing the happy time i arranged someone New watch this topic

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=81864

eltviola wrote:

ok so Paintballing on Friday the 20th in the afternoon - can we have some definite numbers please? I think I need to book in advance. Post on here by Wednesday if you're up for it.

I also propose a social at the Marriott hotel in Zamalek (it's one of my fav places ) on Thursday 19th from 8pm, in the palace gardens. This way it'll be before we're bruised and battered from paintball!

Hope to see lots of you there.

Elaine
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Should I just confirm here or send a PM to someone with it??

No, posting here that you want to come is enough :-)

eltviola wrote:

No, posting here that you want to come is enough :-)

I want to come

to both events actually!!

5 th may

Hey, I'm really interested in these socials, my parents are Egyptian but I grew up in England, and apart from family, friends from play school days in Egypt, and work colleagues, i'd love to socialise with people from England who i'm more familiar with! Please let me know about any socials! Thanks

Oooh! Just seen the social at Marriot! I'm so up for that!

can we make it 7pm ?
coz i wanna have more time with u all before going to PARTYING

yeah, i prefer to make it at 7 pm too, coz i wanna stay with all of u with a longer time, coz really time passes too quickly with all of u

We can make it 7 but I can't make it until later you guys can take the lead and find us a good seat :-p

eltviola wrote:

We can make it 7 but I can't make it until later you guys can take the lead and find us a good seat :-p

well 7 is good

How is everyone going to find everyone??

Naz Nabeeh wrote:

How is everyone going to find everyone??

lol
that's a good question
u can contact eltviola if u want

Well hopefully she'll see this and tell us if she's gonna carry a sign or something ;D

I guess that the first one will be there just tell the waiter if someone asked about the "Expat-Blog group/table" he should guide her/him to it.

maybe "Expat-Blog group/table" would be hard for the waiter to remember, we can just agree on a name or anything!!!

r u planning for another one, i wanna join , Details please

Ok I'll get there as early as I can, I'll aim for 7 I guess I can eat out to save time! Choose a table near the exit from reception so it's easy to see people. You'll recognise me I hope. I'll bring my Egyptian flag and stick it somewhere visible (no jokes please). There are way too many waiters and they're disorganised so having a table name won't help
See you tomorrow!
Elaine

Hey Elain,
I'm definately in for the Marriot gathering. I love the place. It's very relaxing. I could be there at 7 pm if that's when everyone will meet. I'm sure we'll have a great time!

See everyone then.

eltviola wrote:

Ok I'll get there as early as I can, I'll aim for 7 I guess I can eat out to save time! Choose a table near the exit from reception so it's easy to see people. You'll recognise me I hope. I'll bring my Egyptian flag and stick it somewhere visible (no jokes please). There are way too many waiters and they're disorganised so having a table name won't help
See you tomorrow!
Elaine

that's a good plan
and no jokes loool

Incidentally I don't have enough people signed up for paintball on Friday  so I haven't booked it, event cancelled :-( or postponed - Maybe another time! It'd be good to get a big group going
Sorry about that everyone, see you tomorrow
Elaine