I finally got paid on Friday. I didn't realize they were paying me more for working after midnight.. so I sort of got more than what I was expecting.. which is always a good thing, in terms of money, eh? I'd decided that I'd shop for groceries with the money that I'd earned and then give the rest to my parents (who arrived on Saturday from Dubai) ( Read more... )

I'm sure everybody's heard about the shootings at Virginia Tech in the US. It's pretty shocking, what happened. You expect foreign students to be really quiet and hard-working because they're away from home, they're paying higher fees etc., but the nutty gunman who shot and killed 32 people and injured many more before killing himself was a South- ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we packed ourselves into my mom's four-wheel-drive and drove off to International City [a "suburb" of Dubai] where our family friends live. The drive was sort of long, but we got there ( Read more... )

There was a big fat fog in the morning when we were driving to school. Well, at least it slowed people down a bit.

Anyways, at school, I volunteered to take part in this global 'Make Poverty History' campaign. So my classmate, Anish, who's managing the whole UAE division of this campaign gave me a load of flyers and posters to put up in my ( Read more... )