10 Things I Like Most and Least About Living in the UAE
Alan, who writes a wonderful blog, just tagged me, which apparently means I must write the following.
10 things I like about living here, in no particular order:
The students
The Persian Gulf
Meeting cool muslim girls
Meeting cute Indian guys
The lack of coldness
My job
The small but growing art scene in Dubai
Cheap, great Indian food
Rocks on strings
The dunes, the palm trees, the camels…
Things I don’t like about living here:
The maniacs on the road
The lack of good customer service
The camel jockey problem
Other labor issues
The lack of English subtitles on Bollywood films
The lack of nutritional labels on local and French food
The extra care one must take when teaching students about the Italian Renaissance, so as not to show them any nudity
Taxi drivers with body-odor and physical boundary standards which are different from my own
Expats who find it uncool that I like my job
November 19th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
I’m a “cool muslim girl”?!! Hahaha. That was a good one! Agree with you on the rest though. The dunes and palm trees…*sigh*. And they should honestly have subtitles on Bollywood films. It will benefit them greatly. (oh, and us). And I like your job! Always wanted to be an English teacher…(until I changed my mind. Lol)
February 3rd, 2006 at 1:44 am
hello Rachel.. Just happened to c from friendster that, u had a look at my profile.. so.. from there to ur profile..
The title “Things I don’t like about living here” was found.. Thus.. I am here in ur blog..
wot u have mentioned is absolutely rite.. :)But there has been considerable improvement in all these matters compare to how it used to be one decade ago.. lets not go back to two or three.. so there has been fast changes.. Which cud be termed as an unnatural growth or change.. any such unnatural growth or change has its on drawback as well..:)
Lets hope for the best… Cheers..