in Dubai
Ah - Stephen posted a comment! I never guessed. See, you sound just like my friends other places - that's funny. And wow! Stephen's reading! haha - Man, I really wish I could upload pictures onto the blog; it would make it all so much more interesting. (BTW, Stephen voted for Bush. So anything he says we take with several grains of salt - haha)
I'm in the Dubai airport which will always be associated with cleanliness heaven to me. This is where I stopped on my way out of Accra, and the clean, quiet veneer was a refreshing change for me. I'm here for 5 hours, and I have found the most awesome "business center" ever - it's not cheap to use internet here, but for $5/hour in my own personal office with pretty doors, that's a nice place to hang out. Ah, I'm so easily pleased.
I'm such a bad blogger - I never post just the unusual things because they stop being unusual to me once I experience them. For instance, security checks in the Middle East at airports - there are separate lines for men and women, and the women go into a curtained little room where a woman or two uses the wand - we don't step through the metal detectors. I understand about men not wanding women (haha), but I still haven't figured it all out. And soon, I'm out of the Middle East.
So, I was sitting on the airplane getting ready to get off and was really missing West Africa. Just random thoughts like that - you know, ME-think. And I look up and there's some African guy smiling down at me. And walking in here I got one of those West African guy "hellos" (waiting until I walk past to see if I'll turn back). Man, I can't wait to go back. Not for the pick-ups or anything, but just the way I feel so comfortable there. I don't want to remember it as perfect because then I'll be disappointed when I return, but in some ways it's fantastic for me.
Hm ... none of the places I've contacted about housing in Bangkok has replied to me. This is mildly alarming. Only very mildly right now - and worst case scenario I just arrive and find a place. It's not like India, where I arrive at 3 a.m. - I get into Bangkok at like 3 p.m., so things should be good.
OK, I'm off now to finish Children of the Arbat, which is making me have some serious flashbacks to my time living in Moscow (Russia), and if my stomach weren't so upset I'd indulge in a latte because I can here. Emirates is totally the best airlines ever (I particularly like the movie choices and the TV at every seat), but they serve way too much food and it's pretty good and I hate to waste it.
And for those of you on the edge of your seat about Liberian elections like I am (they were held yesterday), here's an article. Unfortunately, results won't be known for probably two weeks, and a run-off election will probably be required, and refugees could not vote. I want to be there. But I'll be in Riverside, and that's ... well, that's different.
I'm in the Dubai airport which will always be associated with cleanliness heaven to me. This is where I stopped on my way out of Accra, and the clean, quiet veneer was a refreshing change for me. I'm here for 5 hours, and I have found the most awesome "business center" ever - it's not cheap to use internet here, but for $5/hour in my own personal office with pretty doors, that's a nice place to hang out. Ah, I'm so easily pleased.
I'm such a bad blogger - I never post just the unusual things because they stop being unusual to me once I experience them. For instance, security checks in the Middle East at airports - there are separate lines for men and women, and the women go into a curtained little room where a woman or two uses the wand - we don't step through the metal detectors. I understand about men not wanding women (haha), but I still haven't figured it all out. And soon, I'm out of the Middle East.
So, I was sitting on the airplane getting ready to get off and was really missing West Africa. Just random thoughts like that - you know, ME-think. And I look up and there's some African guy smiling down at me. And walking in here I got one of those West African guy "hellos" (waiting until I walk past to see if I'll turn back). Man, I can't wait to go back. Not for the pick-ups or anything, but just the way I feel so comfortable there. I don't want to remember it as perfect because then I'll be disappointed when I return, but in some ways it's fantastic for me.
Hm ... none of the places I've contacted about housing in Bangkok has replied to me. This is mildly alarming. Only very mildly right now - and worst case scenario I just arrive and find a place. It's not like India, where I arrive at 3 a.m. - I get into Bangkok at like 3 p.m., so things should be good.
OK, I'm off now to finish Children of the Arbat, which is making me have some serious flashbacks to my time living in Moscow (Russia), and if my stomach weren't so upset I'd indulge in a latte because I can here. Emirates is totally the best airlines ever (I particularly like the movie choices and the TV at every seat), but they serve way too much food and it's pretty good and I hate to waste it.
And for those of you on the edge of your seat about Liberian elections like I am (they were held yesterday), here's an article. Unfortunately, results won't be known for probably two weeks, and a run-off election will probably be required, and refugees could not vote. I want to be there. But I'll be in Riverside, and that's ... well, that's different.
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