CREATING A STORY: ISA POPPINS

WHO? Isa Poppins

WHERE? Egypt

WHEN? In the past  

WHAT? A great confusion

We were in a hotel in El Cairo, the capital of Egypt. The weather was hot and dry and we wanted to rest before going to visit new places. We stayed in the room and called the room service to demand some towels. Our English wasn’t too good and we demanded in Spanish. I said to the boy that we needed “to-a-llas”. The boy returned ten minutes later with a bowl plenty of ice… It was a funny confusion!

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion 

Jack Kerouac