Ramee California Hotel Manama
P.O Box: 10823, Juffair Manama, Bahrain
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... and host a mini-camp there as well, to replace the island trip we and the kids will be missing out on. So there was a lot of brainstorming and debating the options all day and into the night, but it sounds like we're mostly all on the same page now. The plan is to break all the kids up into groups, and circulate them through various activity stations all day long. They have a ton of basketball chairs here, so I'm stoked to run ...
Bahrain Day #2
... neat. It was built around 1800 to house the family of, you guessed it, Sheikh Isa Bin Ali. The house is divided into four sections. From east to west they are: guest house, servants’ quarters, family residence, and the sheikh’s private quarters. The house was built in traditional Arabian architecture with a wind tower as the prominent feature. The tower captures the wind and directs it down into the residence, providing a primitive form of ...
Another fort (those Portuguese!)
... while still huge, look run-down: plaster and paint peeling, rips in window screens, rooms partially dismantled. One house has a dark gray-greenish exterior, with vines growing across the windows -- clearly haunted, probably abandoned.
Stranger still, just past the collection of mansions, is an open dirt lot, in a crescent shape. Beyond this, are two major roads, running perpendicular to each other. And, on both roads, tangent to the crescent-shaped dirt ...
Chicken fingers
... classes on fire safety, child development, diaper changing, cpr, and others along that line. There were I think 11 new hires. Everyone already working in the child development center was from the states and so after this week they will fly back and we are it. There is a mixture of spouses and third country nationals working there and there all very nice. I have been excited to meet them. At the end of the week we were assigned to an age group. I am school age kids or 6-12 ...
Trapped in Yemenia Hell
... it out OK, but it would be important to keep a low-profile. This mean clothing, method of transportation, and hotels.
So I had spent the last week and a half growing a beard (or at least an attempt at one) to better blend in despite my very conspicuous blue eyes. I think it partially worked---Saad had said that I didn't look "American"---that I looked like from the northern part of the Middle East (e.g. Syrian like my friend Basma had said I could pass for before) because of ...
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