Intro

It is very difficult to write, I have to admit. I have not written down my personal thoughts and impressions since I was in secondary school – that is more than 7 years now. This lousy comeback is because of my dearest friend Harith Elrufaie. He thinks I have a lot to share – I don’t know where he gets that idea from? So if you like what I write, it is because I am a great writer, if you don’t you have Harith to blame.

My name is Hamam Shawgi. My parents and relatives pronounce that as “Hammam”, please don’t get confused; “Turkish Hammam” is a completely different thing.
Hammam in Arabic means “The man with a great motive to do the good”.
My friends however, pronounce it as “Homam” which holds an entire different meaning, it means “The Lion”, and I have also read somewhere that it means “The icy water coming down from mountains”. Both are true, as Arabic language is a treasure of meaningful words and expressions. One word can have so many interpretations that depend on the context it is mentioned in.

My academic background is a Bsc. in Electrical Engineering and I am pursuing Msc degree of power engineering now. I work as a field engineer for a Saudi petroleum company “Alkhorayef WSP” in southern Sudan. It is a great experience to live in the south surrounded by rainy forests and wild animals. There are creatures in life I have been certain I would only see in T.V or Theaters, but time proved me wrong, as it often does. Here, you always have the opportunity to meet Mr. Anaconda and his entire family and you can also have a warm friendly chat with a tiger or two. No matter how big you think this globe is, it always turns out to be bigger. I have never imagined that a 2 hours flight from Khartoum the capital of the Sudan, would take me to such a magical and mysterious place like where I am now.