Being a swimmer for Team Northumbria, I was asked to perform at the VIP opening for the New Northumbria Gym.
On the day there was a lot of security swarming around the Gym and it was soon known that the VIP guest speaker was to be the former prime minister Tony Blair.
I got in the pool with my swim team mates and we started swimming, we saw Tony Blair looking at us and as much as I wanted to stop and say hi I couldn't as it would have upset the "training session"
At the end of the day the former prime minster gave a speech about his future developments and then was on his way out.
Quickly I went up to him and introduced myself. I had a nice chat with the former prime minister which lead him to ask me "If you're Egyptian why have you got a glimpse of a Geordie accent?"
Finally we had a picture taken (swim team and I) by one of the press photographers,
and then the former prime minister said "Shokran" which is "Thank you" in arabic and then he left.
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