Well I have been back in Dubai now for over 2 months and have yet to blog anything; sorry...life happens I guess. There have been a lot of things going on this year for me, some ups and downs along the bumpy road. For those who don't know I am now the Curriculum co-coordinator of Physical Education at our school. It a step into middle management, all I can ever think of when I hear those words put together is a commercial I saw years back that had kids yelling out what they wanted to be but they were all jobs kids would never say. One of the kids got up out of his desk and yelled i want to struggle my way into middle management!! It made me laugh and still does a bit today, we usually never see ourselves in the spot that we get to. Now in saying that I do not expect that this is the top of the pile for me, but a good stepping stone onto bigger and better things. It has gone fairly well so far, it has been a big learning curve to deal with different personalities, schedules and agendas that are out of my control but over all something that is going to make me a better teacher and administrator if that is the direction I want to take this life.
The year has started like many other years but this being my 3rd year in Dubai I would say it has lost a bit of the luster it once held when i first got here, I would say that we have fallen into a routine, not that it is a bad thing and we do have more opportunity to break that routine in the middle east but it is what it is. We play slow pitch on Wednesday nights, it has been fun to do that. I try to golf once a week if possible, that is always a bonus, I do have to say that my confidence in my golf swing is terrible right now and my score shows that with most rounds in the 90s at the moment. I take a golf lesson once a week, that has been great too but I feel the latest change that my instructor has been trying to implement has been the hardest to do so far and my swing is not great, I am sure it will come back though. I do have faith that it will make me a better golfer. I have been reffing rugby a fair bit, I have been to Qatar and this weekend back to Kuwait to ref in some tournaments, it has been good fun to do them. Oh and I am still working on the old fitness goals, I would really like one day to buckle down again and really attack that one but it seems life gets in the way of that particular goal, guess I am not much different than most people on the planet.
I am not going to be travelling much this year personally, I am intending on buying a Jeep this month and want to do some camping in and around the gulf so I my jetting from country to country will slow a bit so I can pay off some debt and chill a bit. Now in saying that I have gone to Qatar and will be going to Kuwait and in the spring I am taking a select group of students to Switzerland on a ski trip in the spring it should be a good time, but organizing it is a bit of a pain in the ass. I am sure it will be worth it, I have always wanted to ski in the Swiss Alps so I hope all goes well with it.
I was going to do a bit of a rant about parents in my school, but thinking about it it is not the right venue to post that information, if you send me an e-mail and want to know the story about how I was threatened to be kicked out of the country I will give you the story but I want to make sure that kind of thing cannot bite me in the ass later on so I will keep it off the public forums for now...
other than that all not much is going on with this guy, still single, still working away at life and still enjoying my time in the desert. until one of those change I can't really see myself leaving here anytime soon. Guess it is going to depend on my mood and how things are going here when it comes to contract renewal time...
that is all for me at this time, keep checking back from time to time and I will try to get more up here. I still want to take a day and go around the city taking some interesting pictures of things you would not normally see here or in the tourist side of Dubai.
Thanks for reading.
