Death day in Canada.

Everything stopped. People

stood like statues all around
me, people in cars, men on
bicycles, all lifeless, frozen in
time.

I am Hussein Mohmmad, I'm a

student of The American
university in Cairo. One day my
friend Hossam said to our
colleagues we have to spend
our vacation in Canada.

I said Why?

He said because our university

gives permissions to its
students to travel to All North
American countries.

I said really! But why canada?

He said: Actually I want to fight

with swords there, especially
when there's a festival and all
people are going to join it and I
like it a lot.

I said but we don't like swords

and we can't use them.

Elena said: let's try something

special and Mostafa said: yes
we want to change our routine.
I looked at the rest of my
colleagues and I saw the
approval on their faces.

Elena said Fortunately my dad

has a big bus there and we can
use it to drive around the city.

My friend Abdallah said but we

can take uber.

I said: how can we take uber

and our colleagues are forty
colleagues, and it will be
extremely expensive.

I asked Elena while we were

going home
What was your father's bus
used for?

Elena: My dad was using it for

making hot drinks and hot
soup.

It can make five thousand cups

and also 5 thousand bowls of
soup.

I said How?'' She said it's a

very big bus and it was made
for this job.

I said to her: can we use it?

Elena: Yes we will use it for our
trip.
I said no: I mean can we use it
for selling hot drinks and soup.
She said: Oh wow, actually I
will call my friend Amanda
there to prepare it.

But if she refuses, what should

we do?

I said to her: How long does it

take to prepare?

Elena: it takes about a week.

I said: I will tell our colleagues

to stay at the airport hotel
for a week to finish preparing
the bus.
Elena but it needs a lot of
money!
I said: I will prepare the money,
don't worry, but how much
should I pay for preparing the
bus,

Elena: ten thousand dollars.

I: Oh my God. It's extremely

expensive but I will prepare the
money.

Elena: If you give me the

money today I will convince my
friend Amanda to do this job.
I: ``It's great to take this credit
card and send the money to
your friend by Western Union.

After 2 weeks we prepared the

tickets and we went to the
Cairo airport and took a
wonderful plane to Canada.

I can't describe what a

wonderful journey it was.

We arrived in Toronto after ten

hours and stayed at the hotel
all night.

While my colleagues were

playing with each other, I was
arranging everything on the
bus with Elena and Amanda.

After we finished we returned

to the hotel and while we were
walking, suddenly Elena had a
call with her parents and she
had to return home. As
something happened, I didn't
know it.

After two days we got on the

bus, after Amanda finished
everything.

The weather was very cold,

and we thought that it was
going to snow.
All my friends were wearing
light clothes, but I was wearing
heavy clothes.

I was drinking hot chocolate.

and hot drinks all the time, but
they didn't like to try it.

They were laughing at me

because I was very cold, but
they were enjoying the snow.
We went to sleep. But when I
woke up, I watched something
very difficult.

Everyone around me was

frozen, they couldn't speak and
move, they were like statues.
Everything stopped and I ran to
the driver, but he looked like
them. I opened the door and I
was shocked because of the
view. Everyone in the city was
frozen.

I was thinking and finally I got a

plan.

What I have to do is to help my

friends who are with me in my
car, and they can help me after
they get well.

I thought that we can help the

whole city and survive them.
I ran everywhere and I was
asking for help with a loud
voice.
But I didn't find any.
I ran again and I was crying
and thinking.

I fell to the ground and I found

firewood that was used before
to warm the people who were
staying here.
And finally I got an idea and it
was I have to go and collect
firewood.
But how?
I thought and finally I
remembered that we have
swords which we bought from
Toronto for a festival.
I was searching for a forest and
finally I found one from a far
distance.

I ran to it and I started to collect

the firewood by cutting them
from the trees using my sword.

I thanked my God, because we

brought the swords to fight
with it.

I collected the firewood and Iit

the fire and started to warm my
colleagues and gave them hot
drinks and bowls of soup.

I was so lucky because I had 5

thousand cups and also five
thousand bowls and I could fill
it with hot drinks and soup that
I prepared with Amanda and
Elena to sell.

My colleagues started to feel

better and I gave them bowls of
soup.

I said to them, guys we have to

survive all the city.

Hossam said: what are you

saying? We have to go home
now, we don't know what those
people are.
And what's gonna happen to us
again.
I said: listen guys carefully,

I helped you and I also

survived all of you. If you want
to leave, leave now and don't
forget who brought you back to
life. God who brings you.

Not me, we are Egyptian

people and they don't forget to
help and I will say it again,
Egyptians don't forget to help.

I will go now and who wants to

leave, Let him go and who
wants to stay, let's welcome
him.
Hossam cried and said I agree
with you, you're right.

More than 5 hundred

households lost power and
some mobile phone
connections and we found all
people in the city were opening
their houses and asking for
help as all the heaters were
turned off because of the loss
of power. Also people in cars
and buses were asking for
help.

We ran to the forest again and

started to cut the trees and
make firewood.
 After we collected a lot of
firewood we went to each
home and put the firewood into
the fireplace in their people's
houses.

We gave them hot drinks and

bowls of soup.

All people left their houses

after they became well and
they started to help us to
survive the people in cars, and
buses.

We carried them to the

people's houses and we did the
same thing with them.
After 7 hours the sun rose and
the power came and we
survived by the ambulances
which came from Toronto.

We were awarded by the

President of Canada for our big
achievements and they made a
big sign board for us at the
beginning of the city.

It was Forty Angeles who came

from Egypt and survived the
whole city.
They wrote our name under
even a photo of us and also
wrote our country Egypt.

After we returned to our home

in Egypt, I called Elena and
said to her what happened to
you, what's matter.

She said my parents told me

that it would be very cold after
two days and it would snow a
lot, it may have caused a lot of
problems.

I said what: and I threw my

phone on the wall and it was
damaged.