Yesterday my younger sister graduated high school, from American School of Kuwait (which I briefly attended if you recall) and it was quite the event. The graduation ceremony was held in the grand ballroom of Le Meridian hotel downtown, and each student had a mere eight tickets for their family and friends. This might seem like a lot, until you ( Read more... )

So here I was, dolefully eyeing the clock as the minute hand slowly slid towards the twelve, thinking, "It's only three?? ugh, an hour and a half more of sitting around" - when the phone rings. The secretary had gone out to get the mail, and the nurse had left for home early - leaving the Nurse Practitioner,Gail, and me. I had been instructed to ( Read more... )

I submitted an *official* resignation letter last wednesday for my last day of work this wednesday. Also, as an aside, for those who didn't know the weekend in Kuwait is Thursday and Friday. Saturday-Wednesday is the working week - this is due to the fact that in Islam the day to go to the mosque is Friday, so they make their weekend around it in ( Read more... )

Today I had a really good workout swimming - 11 laps, plus I treaded (tread?) water for 4 minutes and also was able to swim the length of the pool underwater without coming up for air! This is significant improvement from when I started swimming about a week and a half ago when I could only do 6 laps and not swim the length of the pool underwater. ( Read more... )

Actually no matter how well or badly I make this food pyramid poster, I'll still get paid. Ha ( Read more... )

Two weeks into my job at the health office, with only two weeks to go, I was fingerprinted!I guess it's standard for all embassy employees, but I was still a little weirded out by it, that my fingerprints are going to be on file somewhere. I guess I better wear latex gloves when I decide to steal office supplies (That was a joke Embassy internet ( Read more... )

My friend Katy and I went to a party tonight, although it was a high school party and we really didn't know anyone at all. It was kind of nice because it was a bonfire on the beach (more like a campfire) although it occured to me that since the air temperature was probably something like 85 degrees we really didn't need a fire at all... There were ( Read more... )

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I'm at home, sick again - I have a feeling it's the water or something, because after the two or three days over the weekend, I felt great until this morning. Oh well. Hopefully the nurses at the Embassy don't need anything urgently photocopied ( Read more... )

Being in Kuwait has caught up with me somehow and now I am pretty sick - it sucks since I'd managed to avoid any fullblown illness all flu season. I sent my dad on a mission to find me some gingerbeer and hopefully he will be sucessful since they have this really good imported stuff from australia called bundaburg - I may have butchered the