Saudi Arabia

So life has been incredibly busy here at school the past couple of weeks. We're coming to the end of several of our units, so preparing for the assessment at the end and trying to fit all of the necessary instruction into our condensed Ramadan schedule has consumed most of my time. It hasn't all been work though. Last weekend a friend of a friend who's in the US military took a couple of us to the Saudi border. Women can't enter Saudi without their husband, father, or son, so we were only able to go to the border and turn around, but it was fun to get to see the desert of Kuwait outside of the city and look into Saudi. I have several students who are from Saudi or have relatives in Saudi, so they were all very excited for my little excursion as well. :)






Other highlights of the past couple of weeks have been visiting the Kuwait towers:






and breaking the fast at a posh hotel with the other AIS Kuwait staff:




I've started Arabic classes with a couple of other teachers at the Arab-Western Awareness center, hired a maid (I'm so spoiled! I know) and enjoyed just getting to spend time with new friends here.


Today is the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which is the three day celebration of the end of Ramadan. We have six days off of school, so I'm really excited to have some time to catch up and get ahead at work and to just relax. My Kuwaiti Residence permit came through just this Sunday, which means I'm able to leave the country! A friend and I booked a flight to Dubai for Thursday-Sunday of this week, and I'm excited to see a new city and experience Dubai. I hope everything is going well with all of you, and check back next week for pictures and stories from Dubai!