Now it's up to me Training period at work is now over and responsibility feels heavy on my shoulders. Tunc, the old Residence Maintenance Engineer flies home tonight and I am continuing his work. At the moment I am at the apartment where he lives and where me and Vera will live. Some of his friends are here and later we will say "goodbye" to him. Today was somehow nightmarish day at work. Just before 14.00 when we finish work here and I was going home the system showed several technical alarms and I had to start to sort out where [View Full Entry]

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One week in Kuwait So, it is one week and one day gone since the day I arrived here. Yesterday I had almost a day off. I went to working place at morning to check something I promised to check twice a day. I wanted to rent a car but it became clear that I am not allowed to drive a car here before I get local driver's license because I am here with work visa. If I was just visiting I could drive with my EU and international license. Then I came back to hotel to write some emails and [View Full Entry]

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The first days Today I feel more like being present in Kuwait and somehow connected to the working place and to this country. Now three days has passed since last entry in this blog. There has been many things happening and many things didn't happen which I wished to happen already. It has been challenging to keep all the tasks in control and in memory. Some things have gone forward and some things have had many difficulties. Now I am mainly talking about work related issues and the paper work to be done for residency and other important permits and documents. [View Full Entry]

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Now in Kuwait So, I arrived yesterday. Lufthansa brought me here through Frankfurt. The day was tiring and full of different feelings. Sitting in a plane from Frankfurt I saw the alps, felt the feeling of leaving Europe behind. Totally blind to the future. When the plane made a curve and approached the airport in Kuwait, I had seen the burning fires in the desert which are caused by the oil drilling sites, then it flew over the Kuwait city. The view was very nice I must admit. Sky was dark but the whole city was like hot lava, glowing in [View Full Entry]

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So, I've been here in Kuwait for about 2 weeks now. I'm just now getting a cance to use my own computer on the internet. it's not so bad here... I'm living in a tent on a cot, with about 20 other girls. It's air conditioned, and although you have to walk a mile to get to anything, there's a Taco Bell, Subway, Burger King, coffee place, pizza place, and many call centers and internet cafes. The dining facility is better than any of the ones I ate at back in the states, and they ALWAYS have grilled cheese. The only [View Full Entry]

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Dear Everybody, Some of you may have gotten this on email already. I had not yet sterilized this website. I had to take all last names, unit information, etc. off so that I could use it. I will use this website to keep you all updated. So if you post comments, please don't post last names From the email: I’m in Kuwait right now on my way to Iraq. Laura is still in Alaska with Jaeden and Selah. Please pray for us. Pray for my safe return to my family. Pray that the Holy Spirit will comfort Laura and the girls [View Full Entry]

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I hope someone read that title and freaked out…... I have been on my little journey for about 3 weeks now o an update is well over due. So, everything is going……. (drumroll) really rather well. I will sum up some basic stuff/events in a few witty-ish bulletpoints: - 45 degrees weather does feel quite normal after a couple of days, I play football sometimes in the midday heat - "Mad dogs and Englishmen" etc, but you get used to it. As long as your're downing 3/4 litres per hour of sport everything seems OK, only collapsed once during sport activities. [View Full Entry]

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Good Evening my friends, Well, end of week 3 and im still enjoying it. Although i teach mostly P.E here its pretty hard. We work off 3 different timetables so we dont have a lunch break at 12 but we do have the odd hour here or there. Its Ramadan on Sunday, its lasts one lunar month. No-one can eat or drink or smoke from 6am to 6pm roughly. Even small kids. We've been warned that if we are seen in public drinking water or smoking we could be put in jail for the rest of Ramadan, and thery always [View Full Entry]

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Well, im here.. I've managed to find an internet cafe which is not to far from my flat. Its usually in the mid to late forties (C) until 5pm so it hard work to walk there. There is no humidity though so its not as bad as you think. When there is wind it is really hot, but nice. The same as when you open an oven (thats below the hobs on the cooker Nick!) I have met quite a lot of people already. Irish people, Australians, South africans, and almost everyone is very friendly. There is a guy who [View Full Entry]

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This journal account is primarily about what happens from the time after September 06 in Kuwait, but feel that a quick recap of the 26 odd year before 06 might help give a more rounded picture. So.... here goes (Will be like the Reduced Shakespeare Society etc) So, were born in January 1980 to parents, Roy and Jacki, in Poole - Dorset. Waiting for me was my big sister Jayne who arrived a couple of years before me. Oh, and Filley - pet English Setter Dog. Parents moved us to Seaford (sussex) 3 months after my birth and Tamsyn (second sister) [View Full Entry]

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