"I live for the weekends" is a phrase I started to use to comfort me about living in the west. The weeks go by fast in the classroom so my goal every Sunday is to make it to Thursday so that I can start my weekends and go into the city to be a part of civilization again. Honestly though, the past few weekends have been filled with business: going into the city to buy things for the house (stores in the west are very limited), chasing this debit card that I applied for the first week I got here and still have not gotten, and other important not so fun starting a new life in a new country things.
Despite the business stuff, we try to squeeze in occasional fun. Last weekend we went to the movies to see No Good Deeds. The movie was better than I thought with French and Arabic subtitles. That's a lot of mess popping up on the bottom of a screen as you watch a movie. What made the movie even more entertaining was watching the Arabic speaking women actually enjoy the movie. I thought maybe it would be a little too much for them, but they gasped, jumped, and cheered on Taraji just as much as we did.
Last night we went to Roof Top Rythms, a poetry/open mic event in Abu Dhabi. The event was a lot of unexpected fun. Some of the poets were great, some were on their way to ok, and some were outstanding. The featured poet was a man from Australia who was absolutely amazing (clearly I am bad with names so I don't remember his).
In essence, I guess I actually do live for the weekends. Now, I can't wait until the weekends involve more fun, more traveling, and more shopping for things other than household items. And I hope we get some good concerts here to pay everyone back for all of their posts about the Outkast Atlast concert that I missed in Atlanta.
P.S. we hear a PING from our text messages when we get paid. There was no PING heard this week. What a fun killer!
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