I find that work is definitely the best time to update my blog.. To avoid doing actual work. I swear I'm doing work though. Surprisingly things have gotten very busy at work, I guess everyone was in the same boat when I got here and no one really knew what to do.
We are kind of involved in everything, recruitment, events, being residence spies ha-ha. The students are actually really nice and friendly, so its pretty good.
Last week was pretty quiet, we didn't do much considering we had been going out every single day the week before. Now we are well rested and trying to do more things again. We are planning on going to an "Arabian Adventure" sometime this weekend.
This weekend we went and checked out a couple of bars/clubs. The first night we went out, we were suggested this place called elegante which was pretty nice. The only funny thing was it was "Indian" night so they had all this brown clubbing music. It was decent we just got super excited when they played an English song ha-ha. The cab driver that drove us home was pretty nice he was asking me what we were doing in Dubai and about my husband HAHAH, and I'm like o gosh I don’t have one. He then continued to give me blessings for my marriage and hopefully after schooling my marriage would happen fast, I just didn’t have the heart to tell him otherwise. I Just agreed hahahaha. I found out he has a son in medical school etc. The things you learn in a fifteen minute cab ride home.
We went to the Dubai museum on the Friday and the place looks pretty small, but it was quite spacious, because it goes underground. We saw old school houses, and traditional wear, and old shops and stuff.
After we left the museum ,at around 7 pm, the area where we were was so insanely busy! Its like everyone woke up all of a sudden at night. So we checked out some place for a phone for me :).. Which I still haven’t got.
Creepy Girl Statues at the Museum
More fake people at the museum
Dubai Museum and Seans Model Shot
Right outside Res
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Getting water from the well
We got home only using transit, and not cabs, which was a huge accomplishment! I can now teach people how to reach me.. Once they get to Dubai :P. That night, we got convinced to go out again with some guys from Hult university.
This part is best said by dancy :
"On our way back from the gym, we encountered these 2 black men, Blue and Ola, waiting for a taxi outside of our building. So we decided to have a little chat with them. Turned out they are nigerian grad students who live in a different building from us. AND, they are going clubbing.
I guess we were desperate for a non-indian clubbing experience, and we were attracted by the idea of sharing a taxi bill, so we said, we'll be ready in half and hour! (what's there to worry about, we have Sean, at least hes half black)
Okay, half an hour later, Misha, Sean, and I are on our way to this York club.
Pasted from <http://dancyli.blogspot.com/> "
The bar we went to was pretty weird so we decided to leave then we went to this arabic-english club. When we got in all the guys there were doing a traditional dance, then they had 20 mins rnb and hip hop and back to Arabic music. The cab driver that drove us home that day was like in his 40s I would say, but man he was playing these crazy beats and driving to the beat (sometimes).. Which may not have been the best thing , but it was fun. He was playing old school Sean Paul and he had a good system in his car. One of the best cab rides !
We did office hours Saturday night (equivalent to a Canadian Sunday night) on residence and then this week has been busy because all the students have been asking us stuff. Every thing is due this week . We are heading to our Waterloo mom's house on wed for dinner. She's a really nice person that works in the office with us working for international recruitment, she always brings us fruits and chocolates and biscuits for us at work :).
Now I got to work some more.. Boo.