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The Beginning of Goodbye
... addition, I have had more than enough of this culture. I want to go somewhere where indentured servancy isn't acceptable and I don't get eyeball-molested while walking to get milk at the bacala across the street. I thought I could hack it for longer but I just don't want to - overall, I just don't like being in this culture and that's that. It would take a near-miracle to get me to stay here for next year...
The reality is that I want to come home but that probably ...
Just a little messed up
... lines. I have arrived in the largest mall in Kuwait. The avenues the first thing that greats me. Shake Shack. We can't even get those in New Jersey!
As of now the only thing that is different from the states in the Mall is that the stores are over-lit and the locals garb.
I'm going to be honest I feel as if I'm stuck in my churches Christmas pageant.
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Kuwait - ofwel "visa issuing, hoe het niet moet"
... Het probleem is vooral dat er niets uitgelegd of aangeduid staat behalve dan een loket bemand met een stuk of 10 mensen, met daarachter een bord met "VISA ISSUING". Voor die desk staat er dan een 50-tal mensen te wringen.
Een geluk dat ik op dat moment een collega tegenkwam die me wegwijs kon maken in de transparante 8-stappen procedure:
1) je neemt een nummerke van een dispenser die ergens op de toog tussen ...
It doesn't get hotter than this...
... put me up for a few nights in Kuwait. Since I'd never been to the middle east before, I thought this would be fun! Honestly, though, I thought it would be fun to be able to book a business class seat on an Emirates A380 from Toronto... In my research, this is a pretty easy set of flights; Toronto to Dubai nonstop on the upper deck of an A380, and then Dubai to Kuwait. Glorious! Regrettably, as a state-owned and ...
Patience is a virtue
... into driving skills and road safety and we delight in the fact that we say 'thank you' if a driver gives us the right of way, or if we finally get to the end of a 4 hour queue on the M25 despite cursing under our breath. We don't beep our horns or shout and swear out of the car window in the majority of situations and thus generally have a safer, calmer driving experience.
I've had to adapt slightly as adopting this style of driving ...
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