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Could you help me to revise my story about escaping from the comfort zone?Thank you! Tracing back in my university life, my experience of volunteering in Egypt still glistened in my mind, as a start point for me to get out of the comfort zone bravely and embrace the diversity of people and culture. My volunteer project was to protect women rights. But after arriving in Egypt, the abominable living environment for women really astonished me. And as a foreign female myself, I suffered countless sexual harassment. I was traced by two Egyptians in a shopping mall with my friends. They met us in a supermarket on the ground floor and we found that wherever we go they were always within meters from us. And the safety guard didn’t even pay attention to us, and said we were too nervous. At last, we called some male friends and fortunately nothing happened. This was a bad experience, but it was just one of the sexual harassment we met. I began to ask myself if my parents’ stereotype of Egypt is correct. All these things made me feel upset because I think it’s actually a cultural and educational problem and it’s really hard to change in a short time. But during my trip around Egypt, I changed my mind gradually. I approached many Egyptians through Instagram and they were willing to be our guide there. We talked a lot and they had some interesting views about women rights. One man told me he thought women right is a joke, because women already had superior status in Egypt. Girls in his university didn’t need to make much effort to get good marks because the professors were prejudicial. That really shocked me, I mean, communicating with them help me get some insights about the topic instead of concluding it harshly. Then I told him women right is about equal right and we discussed other issues like Egyptian marriage system and “He for She” campaign. At last, he told me “ok, then I’ll be a person protecting women right” More surprisingly, months later after I came back China, he told me that he was now a volunteer in the UN to do women rights project. I met culture shock certainly, but I think communication is the best way to understand it instead of stereotype. Besides my volunteer work, I was also an oversea specialist of CAIXIN media. Could you just imagine a Chinese girl without any journalistic knowledge finally interview the chairman of Egypt Railway Administration? But I did it! The hardest part of this task is to find the chairman. I tried phoning, but no one answered. I tried sending e-mail, but nobody reply. I searched the address of the emba

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Could you help me to revise my story about escaping from the comfort zone?Thank you!

Tracing back in my university life, my experience of volunteering in Egypt still glistened in my mind, as a start point for me to get out of the comfort zone bravely and embrace the diversity of people and culture.
My volunteer project was to protect women rights. But after arriving in Egypt, the abominable living environment for women really astonished me. And as a foreign female myself, I suffered countless sexual harassment. I was traced by two Egyptians in a shopping mall with my friends. They met us in a supermarket on the ground floor and we found that wherever we go they were always within meters from us. And the safety guard didn’t even pay attention to us and said we were too nervous. At last, we called some male friends and fortunately, nothing happened. This was a bad experience, but it was just one of the sexual harassment we met. I began to ask myself if my parents’ stereotype of Egypt is correct.
All these things made me feel upset because I think it’s actually a cultural and educational problem and it’s really hard to change in a short time. But during my trip to Egypt, I changed my mind gradually. I approached many Egyptians through Instagram and they were willing to be our guide there. We talked a lot and they had some interesting views about women rights. One man told me he thought women right is a joke because women already had superior status in Egypt. Girls in his university didn’t need to make much effort to get good marks because the professors were prejudicial. That really shocked me, I mean, communicating with them help me get some insights about the topic instead of concluding it harshly. Then I told him women right is about equal right and we discussed other issues like Egyptian marriage system and “He for She” campaign. At last, he told me “ok, then I’ll be a person protecting women right” More surprisingly, months later after I came back China, he told me that he was now a volunteer in the UN to do women rights project. I met culture shock certainly, but I think communication is the best way to understand it instead of stereotype.
Besides my volunteer work, I was also an oversea specialist of CAIXIN media. Could you just imagine a Chinese girl without any journalistic knowledge finally interview the chairman of Egypt Railway Administration? But I did it! The hardest part of this task is to find the chairman. I tried phoning, but no one answered. I tried sending an e-mail, but nobody reply. I searched the address of the emba
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The comment is for the unfinished part of the story. Thank you so much for your time and help!
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I searched the address of the embassy on Google map, but it was an invalid one. Finally, I thought there might be an institution on the second floor of the railway station, as it is in China. But the chief there told me he was not the one I wanted but he could write me a recommendation letter and the address in Arabic. Therefore, I finished the task successfully. That was a really amazing experience not because of the interview, but I found my potential to do anything I want with boldness, smart mind and communication.

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