Hello Everyone,
TGIT... Thank god it's Thursday tomorrow! What a week! There have been some high highs and some pretty low lows. I can't seem to get school off my mind. EVER. Sometimes I feel like I am doing great, and other times I feel like I am doing terrible. Oh well.. I am sure that comes with the nature of being a first year teacher in a new country.
I've been thinking the past several days on my walks to and from school about contradictions in Kuwait. For example:
Our school is implementing Ipad's (school wide), but we have no smart technology.
Many stores sell condoms, but it's illegal to say "girlfriend" or "boyfriend." Although, I suppose a married couple could use those...
There are NO stop signs here, but people drive VERY expensive vehicles. (Even with one of the most dangerous highways in the world)
hmmm...
It's almost as if everywhere you go, you think wtf? Is it or it isn't? Real, not real? Possible, not possible? One piece of advice from an expat who has been here over a month now: Let nothing surprise you and assume nothing. Well, one thing I know for sure it that it's nice to survive that 'hump' until the first paycheck. Now, I feel like I have money... well because I do for the first time. I don't have to make that 2,000 some odd dollars last an entire semester anymore. I just need to make it last for a month. Weird. The first major purchase I spent my newly earned salary on was a T.V., and then a ticket to my sister's in CT over winter break. Still no updates on the apartment situation (enshallah).
p.s. EMBASSY party this weekend!! I will update after :D
Tiffany
TGIT... Thank god it's Thursday tomorrow! What a week! There have been some high highs and some pretty low lows. I can't seem to get school off my mind. EVER. Sometimes I feel like I am doing great, and other times I feel like I am doing terrible. Oh well.. I am sure that comes with the nature of being a first year teacher in a new country.
I've been thinking the past several days on my walks to and from school about contradictions in Kuwait. For example:
Our school is implementing Ipad's (school wide), but we have no smart technology.
Many stores sell condoms, but it's illegal to say "girlfriend" or "boyfriend." Although, I suppose a married couple could use those...
There are NO stop signs here, but people drive VERY expensive vehicles. (Even with one of the most dangerous highways in the world)
hmmm...
It's almost as if everywhere you go, you think wtf? Is it or it isn't? Real, not real? Possible, not possible? One piece of advice from an expat who has been here over a month now: Let nothing surprise you and assume nothing. Well, one thing I know for sure it that it's nice to survive that 'hump' until the first paycheck. Now, I feel like I have money... well because I do for the first time. I don't have to make that 2,000 some odd dollars last an entire semester anymore. I just need to make it last for a month. Weird. The first major purchase I spent my newly earned salary on was a T.V., and then a ticket to my sister's in CT over winter break. Still no updates on the apartment situation (enshallah).
p.s. EMBASSY party this weekend!! I will update after :D
Tiffany
That first paycheck! Congrats... Now, make it last a semester and put the rest in the bank. You'll thank yourself later!
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Hey Tiffany -
ReplyDeleteYour pops shared your blogsite with some of us and I have been enjoying reading about your experiences in Kuwait. Thanks for sharing. Congrats on the first paycheck!!
Webb
Hey Congrats on the paycheck!!! Also, enjoy all of your traveling! Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy!!!
ReplyDeleteLove you! Aunt Kim