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"I was just finishing my praying , trying to walk out of the crowds , as I am not used to crowds , it takes more than 20 minutes to walk through all those people to get to calm place , to get rest , eat or lay down ... but as am still stuck , I heard the people chanting , and screaming " HE IS GONE " , "Allah Akbar" , " We Won. " Some starting signing , but soon as one of the old famous songs came up , we all starting repeating after it , all in one voice ..
Some were crying , personally I cried too , I could not believe that yet , I tried to confirm many times though the phone but phones network were busy , but I don't need to confirm , cause we already are celebrating our victory .
Celebration , started alone , I thought the real celebration will be out there , at the streets , especially from the people who didn't join us at the first day , and from whom are manipulated to believe we will never win , and of course from those who started to doubt our revolution ..
I went out of the crazy crowds , when i was trying to get I found myself standing face to face with mother of the one of the martyrs , she was happy singing with the crowds , her eyes were full of tears but she were singing , I could not find any words except " Thank you mam , Thank you you are the first hero in here " , she locked at me back and said the last thing i never expected " NO , You could take the bullet too instead of my son , you are all heroes " ... My tears started to come out .
In my way to the streets , People still gathering at " Kasr Al-neel bridge " , that famous bridge with lions in Cairo , People are more there , the celebration is not just in Tahrir square its all over Egypt , young men standing on the head of the lions , the crowds are more massive out side , and at the bridge , cars went crazy honking their horns in celebration, people expressed their happiness with their car horns , as people were expressing their happiness using whatever they can . Crowds still massive , I need to get to the real streets ....
Soon as I got to the real streets , the people are still coming toward the Tahrir square to celebrate , people who were in Tahrir square and get out as me were saying " rise your head , you are Egyptian " , people repeat after them . still too many people coming in waves to Tahrir square ...
Soon as I cross over the Bridge at the other side too , I walk down to the street , and seen the incoming cars , the people were looking at me , and salute me , don't know why at first , but one of them said " Welcome home champ " a women in a car were saying " Thank you hero. " I am not hero , after few moments I knew why , my bad , my exhausting dirty look suggests that I was in Tahrir square , as my back bag I dress it in-front of my chest to protect my netbook I used to communicate ..So people know that I was in Tahrir and just came out ...
I kept walking , to reach " Lebanon Square " as I decided to go to their walking , people are still coming on foot and in cars and the streets are crowded too , I walk in the middle like victorious rising my both hands as victory sign ... Pople focused on me , keep saluting me . Well this is the real gift ..... This is the real outcome .
Well I was not in Tahrir square all this time , but I was in the streets since Jan 25 , I lost 2 of my friends as I held and treated babies who were suffocated from gas , I never lost faith or withdraw or doubt about us ...
Minutes later I got call from my friend whom I met in the very first day , he told me " Mansoura " my home town " went crazy and streets are celebrating the victory " ...
I kept walking , for more than an hour , people are less cars are less, but still saluting me and someone else who were going back home from Tahrir with 2 back-bags one on his chest the other on his back , with victory signs we kept walking , few minuets later I asked him " how long " , " he said : 11 days , now I am going home to my mother " , well this is the real hero , 11 days staying in Tahrir square I knew some hid , some ran away , but he lived there , I rise his hand as a boxer who just won , and tried to be get one of his bags off him to carry with him " were too loaded and heavy " but he refused ... We walked together ..... now some people are screaming " Those are Tahrir guys " and keep saluting us ... Well.. This is was our real celebration ....
After sometime walking on the streets and after , that real hero goes home I felt tired of walking I decide to go back to my second home " Tahrir square " , I took the subway " Boohoth station ", it was crowded too , people coming from and to Tahrir square , they said it's the last " Metro " but it was 8;15 pm . in the subway some were crying yet , some are celebrating , waiting the last " Metro " to Opera station which beside " Tahrir square " a Metro horn's voice is coming through the tunnel , is the driver celebrating using his Metro's horn , Wow , the driver didn't stop honking ....
I arrived to the station and on the earth I was shocked about the numbers , the people still gathering ......
I walked to Tahrir square , no look-up now , no ID check as there is no fear anymore of Mubarak's thugs or the secret police , as the Regime is out .... In the Tahrir square the people were still celebrating ... I picked quite spot to open my netbook , and connect to the Internet to see what's going out , and how the people outside received our freedom news ...
Many emails , saying " Congratulations , for your freedom " , most of those emails comes from Europe , USA , Asia and with particular country Turkey ..
My Friend Jason White , who was supporting us , translating , making video and podcasts , about what's going on , called me in the subway more than an hour ago saying " Congratulations , I am so happy for you " chat with me , along with many other friends , especially anonymous group were so happy and excited .. My friend " Nasser Alkhateeb " called me from Australia to congratulate me .. well this was the best emotional call I got in this day ... My father called minuets later , he was crying ... he was so happy ... so as my mother ....
News revealed people are happy in Islamic and Arabic worlds , I could not get what is that mean until I received an offline message from Salahudeen he is young activist programmer from Bangladesh saying " WE ARE ALL HAPPY in Bangladesh , THANK YOU and Congratulations " , So as Younes Rahman my friend from India . Joan canning , Roy from " Outland Community " at USA , thank you for your support , and spreading our words to the media and your local communities . Special thanks to my friend , Darren who created the map of " www.egyptcrisismap.org " as he knew i will prefer protesting than coding .. THANK you all
To Adem Marmekaya , Akf Emre , Sinan Ata from Turkey , Thank you ...... Alim Bey from Ukraine .
To my friend Bartalan Mesko " scienceroll.com " from Hungry , Thank you ..
Well this made me happy more than ever ....
You may be wondering what's next ?
Well it's simple , the last part of getting our freedom as I see it me and my activists friends we will prosecute them all , we will not let them get away with what they did to us , to our Egypt .. me and my friend decided to not go down or calm but we will hunt them down in court room , we will protest peacefully and never give up , will never give up hope , and hey a message for whom is coming next , WE KNOW THE WAY and we are NOT AFRAID ANYMORE !
Thank you all , my friends no my family overseas , for supporting , protesting , writing , publishing and spreading our words ."
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