You know you lived in Khartoum when...

- you went to Afra Mall for your first week but never went back after. 

- your main work from Monday to Wednesday is to find out how to place your name on a guest list for a Thursday evening party.
- the DJ for those parties was Seif. 
- you think that 35 to 39° C is a good outside temperature. 
- you were involved / witnessed rickshaw crash. 
- you had 2 occasions in a year to wear a sweater. 
- every Friday morning you take breakfast to Ozone and say hello to everybody out there. 
- after that you go to the swimming pool at the Sudan German club, and complain about the huge number of people in the water.
- you know that Al Hawi is cheaper than Amarat centre.- you have something coming from the small Omdurman leather shop (you think it is a secret address but everybody knows it). 
- you saw ashtrays made with baby crocodile heads. 
- you know that the French Cultural Centre is the only place for discovering Sudanese culture. - you hated at first but finally enjoyed non-alcoholic beer, especially the fruit flavoured ones. 
- you prefer Universal Café ice creams to Tutti Frutti’s ones, and Tutti Frutti’s ones to Ozone ice creams. 
- you live in Khartoum II, Amarat and Riyad. Elsewhere is another town. . 
- you enjoy to turn your air conditioner on 18°C only in order to sleep with a blanket. 
- you think that every foreigner in Sudan is working for UN or NGOs. 

- you still not understand why you have to pay to leave the country (isn’t it like being an hostage ? ). 
- it was quite hard to get adapted to the country at your arrival ….but after a while you like it.
- you have never read so many books in your like. 
- you’ve been drinking any sort of alcohol packed in small bags. - you employ and pay tradesmen to fix things, (air-conditioners, toilets etc) only to find it is A: still broken afterwards, or B: worse than before.

- the power goes out and you continue eating/cooking your dinner, even though you can't see it. You know the generator will start up soon.

- you have created your own names for landmarks... Barista Street, Power Pole Road, the Egg, the Roundabout of Death etc and you use these names when

 giving people directions.

- you clean your white clothes in brown water.

- you start enjoying a hot water shower even in the heat of summer.

- you return from abroad, your luggage includes several bottles of "water"

- you see that the outside world does have more then one paved road!

- seeing people walking around with AK47 as norm.

- the words 'bukara enchala' makes you cringe especially when spoken about your broken ac!

- you receive daily phone call from people you don't know, speaking a language that you don't know also

- you start loving the wine served in airplanes or airports.

- you were sweating without doing any thing.

- you promise not to come back before at least one year and two month later, you sign another contract for one year more.

- you go for a barbecue on the Nile and you come back with malaria.

- you know exactly everytime where is the East.

- ...

...and so on...

(all for fun....tratto da feisbuk groups)