I just ate a pork dumpling that one of my Korean students brought in. I asked where she got the pork and got the diplomatic answer "no one knows". Delicious! An unexpected treat.
Recently, I think I am learning more Hindi than Arabic from the taxi drivers and cleaning staff at the school. Not that I expect to be able to converse in either.
I got a ride from an Afghani taxi driver yesterday and it was about the friendliest conversation I have had here. In his broken English (which was quite good) I found out that he's been here for years with his parents and brother, the Taliban is very very bad, he never went to school but speaks five languages, Kuwait is not a good place to work but the money is good, and the northern mountains in his country are beyond belief. The fifteen minute discussion made me smile.
Despite my best efforts, I do not seem to be drinking enough water during the day. The dry air does not help and hopefully within a few weeks we can turn off the a/c as the temperatures settled into the seventies.
Everyone at school is waiting with baited breath to see whether the Ministry of Education will extend the Eid Al-Adhar holiday from five days to ten in order to give time off for Muslims to go to the Hajj in Mecca. For the rest of us, it would just be a great time to catch up on a few things.
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