It turned out
that we were inside an area that gets locked off when the ship is underway. One
of the staff came out and cleared out all of the Sudanese/Egyptian guys that
had chosen the same area, and gestured to us that we’d need to move. We packed
up our stuff, but by the time everyone else had cleared out, the captain told
us that we could stay. It was clearly only because we were white, but we
weren’t going to argue when it meant that we wouldn’t have to try and squeeze
in elsewhere.
(to be continued)
