That's me

Hey guys,

I have been blogging for a while but did not introduce myself. I completely forgot about that as I was focused on composing serious high quality blogs :D. Maybe now is the perfect point to tell you who I am because I think it should be a bit more personal.

Now, my name is Nora and I am in my twentieth. Actually my dad is Egyptian and my mum Austrian. One day I met a funny guy and he said: “Ohhhh… so you are an Austgyptian girl then.” :D

I have been a billion times to Egypt as my paternal family live there. Our home is located in the heart of Cairo, the capital city (for those who are no geography geniuses). You may have heard about the Arabic spring and all the demonstrations and people who were shot during the last two or three years. Yes, it is just a 10 minutes-walk from where am living during my stays in Cairo but it is ok.

 Currently I am studying transcultural communication in the first semester at the University of Graz. My two foreign languages are English and Arabic and my mother tongue is German. For one thing I chose this field of study because I like being able to communicate with people from other countries and who don’t speak German. It is very interesting to gain insight into other cultures and this works best if you speak their language. For another thing languages have been becoming more and more important as a result of globalization. My aim is to work as an interpreter although I think it is tough to translate perfectly. Particularly Arabic translations may cause problems as sentences are composed and structured differently. Another difficulty I face are the subtle differences between words. There might not be an equivalence in another language and this makes it difficult to translate correctly and to catch the meaning of what’s being said.

So right now I am on the train from Graz to Innsbruck, where I used to live before coming to Graz, to spend the Christmas holidays there. I wish you merry chistmas!!!!!!!!!!

Nora