Well it has been an amazing ride so far. thanks again for people e-mailing me to ask various questions, I really appreciate it. in 3 weeks I will be on a plane to Thailand. I can not believe all that I have experienced so far and I am only 4 months into this adventure. I have had some ups and downs, but luckily it has been mostly ups.
Since I blogged last I have been to Kuwait to referee a rugby tournament. it was unreal, a sand pitch that in the sun turned into a very hard packed surface that cut up a lot of the players legs and shoulders when they were making their tackles. I can say with confidence on that day I was happy I no longer play and just referee. It was an amazing experience and I found Kuwait to be very peaceful and very rich. There is a ton of money there, the homes that I got to see are Gigantic. Obviously we were only in the affluent areas but still very nice place. I felt very safe and there was an Erie calm about the place that a few people that I went with felt too. The driving is all crazy here in the middle east and Kuwait was no different. all of the traffic laws are more suggestion it seams, but it all flows well and I have not seen nearly the accidents that I thought I would.
So Kuwait was great, when I got back from Kuwait I had to go get my blood check done and chest x-ray. this is done for everyone who moves to Dubai but we for some reason got the opportunity to go to the hospital that all the immigrant workers get to go to. it took 11 hours for them to take my blood then give me a chest x-ray. it was so painfully boring, there was nothing to do but read a book and wait. there was black mold on the ceiling tiles in the HOSPITAL, it was eye opening. There were a lot of the Indians that were asking why us as white people were at this hospital. Apparently most companies just pay for the private clinics to do this, it costs a bit more but also gets done in days instead of weeks. it was wild. there were 1500 people that go pushed thought this hospital a day, so at $100 us dollars to get the work done there is a fair amount of cash being put into this system. they are obviously not spending it on the buildings up keep. HA HA. it was interesting to say the least.
Other then that there is not a lot going on, we are defiantly getting into a routine, the kids have a very different mind set here. I find if I do not yell at them to be quite they will keep talking till I get mad. I have tried a lot of different techniques and I am not sure what is the next step. I hear that this is just the way it is and to live with it. we will see, I am sure there will be a way we can sort this kids out. money can not robe them of respect....so I hope.
They school is getting better too, there seams to be great strides to fix the network problems we have been having. I am actually able to teach computers now and get on to the Internet for most of the day, instead of hoping every lesson I had that it would be working for the hour. Again, it has been an experience and I do not even bat and eye now when it happens there are always games we can play either on the computer or "heads up seven up" seams still to be a classic for students.
I will get some more pictures up soon too. If you have facebook you can add me there and I have a lot more up there too.
my e-mail again is cehegge@gmail.com
thanks for reading. have a great one!
