Last night I went for a border run to get a new stamp in my passport so that I'm legally here in Dubai. I went with a company that takes its passengers in a van to the Oman/Dubai border where you simply cross, then cross back. The drive to Oman is about an hour and a half. This is normally not a big deal for me, but for some reason I get motion sickness like crazy here. Armed with my Sea Bands, no pun intended, I felt semi-at ease. That is until this chick decided it would be a good idea to eat her donkey smelling burrito in the van with recycled air.... Seriously?
The trip went well with zero problems. It was a bit unnerving to have armed men hardcore staring us down at the passport check points. I'm hoping I have my residency visa prior to my 30 day mark so that I don't have to go visit them again. Don't worry - we were safe.
The people that I traveled with were all very nice. There were two other Americans and three Brits. While I enjoyed chatting with everyone, I was disappointed that their conversations centered around drinking. The only thing they seemed to want to talk about was how they were "so smashed" and it takes X amount of drinks for them to get drunk, and they did this stupid thing and on and on and on.... Can we please have an intelligent conversation? O yes, we can! About Kim Kardashion. Sigh...
After our return to Dubai, Ben picked me up and we made it home around 12:30 a.m. Both of us had to get up early this morning to go into school and neither of us were pleased with how fast the morning came. I had an interview with the principal and vice principal at Ben's school for a potential resource manager/assistant librarian position. Basically I will be organizing a lot of crap if I get the job which I am more than ok with. Fingers crossed that I am offered the job and that the money is decent.
The trip went well with zero problems. It was a bit unnerving to have armed men hardcore staring us down at the passport check points. I'm hoping I have my residency visa prior to my 30 day mark so that I don't have to go visit them again. Don't worry - we were safe.
The people that I traveled with were all very nice. There were two other Americans and three Brits. While I enjoyed chatting with everyone, I was disappointed that their conversations centered around drinking. The only thing they seemed to want to talk about was how they were "so smashed" and it takes X amount of drinks for them to get drunk, and they did this stupid thing and on and on and on.... Can we please have an intelligent conversation? O yes, we can! About Kim Kardashion. Sigh...
After our return to Dubai, Ben picked me up and we made it home around 12:30 a.m. Both of us had to get up early this morning to go into school and neither of us were pleased with how fast the morning came. I had an interview with the principal and vice principal at Ben's school for a potential resource manager/assistant librarian position. Basically I will be organizing a lot of crap if I get the job which I am more than ok with. Fingers crossed that I am offered the job and that the money is decent.
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