2010-12-27: Google Summer Internship, Zürich Switzerland

"Hello Hany!...We are glad to inform you that you have been accepted in the summer internship program this year in Google Zürich GmBH!". Call me a geek but these were the best words I have ever heard! I now work for Google, well in one way or another! After struggling with the visa issues I finally got my Swiss Schengen visa and the work permit. The Swiss people are very strict and precise, they thought I was 2 persons, one named Hany Khalil, and the other Hany SalahEldeen! Well I don't blame them (fyi, in Egypt we don't have the concept of family name, your name is a concatenation of your ancestors names, my name then my father's, then his father's...etc). All my life I have been called Hany SalahEldeen but for some reason the American embassy in Cairo decided that my grandfather's name Khalil suits me better. "Ich spreche kein Deutsch!" or "I don't speak German" Was the sentence I was repeating to my self on the plane to Zürich, y