My life in Dubai is becoming a series of routines. I get out of bed early, watch a little Fox news while I get dressed (Remember I am 9 hours ahead of you right now). Then I leave my apartment just before 8 am and drive the 5 minute drive to Subway. There Lisza fixes me my egg (American egg patty!) and cheese -a dash of salt and pepper - on Sesame Bread (Is Subway really cheating on the length? That is anti American, but may make it a little more Middle Eastern - lol) with my fresh cookies and Diet Coke to make it a meal ($10.61 with tip). Then I drive the additional 15 minutes to the Farmer's Market where my office is. The real joy to my week is the lunch time visits with friends and customers and the interactions with my customer friends. After my work day ends at around 6 pm, I head home, maybe stopping at the grocery store. Then most nights I cook grilled cheese with either Ham, Bacon or naked) or eat a bowl of cereal for dinner. During the evening watching whatever I have taped, maybe a random phone call to someone that I miss in the states. Occasionally, I will go online and check my Regions Bank balance and hope that somehow it has mysteriously grown, and my time here will grow shorter. The UAE is not a bad place to be, it's just not America. I know I am working to secure my future and hopefully many retirement years, but I also know that I am paying a price to be here.
The change of pace day is my "off day" Friday. Friday here is like Sunday in the states. Most Friday's I get up, have a bowl of cereal, write this blog. Shower, go out to drop off my weekly dry cleaning, have lunch and then run any errands that are left for me to finish. Friday night I call my mom and check in (usually we review the blog that she has just woken up and read. It is also part of the routine life I live here. Today, will be a little different. Mom had some rather serious surgery back in Virginia, and is recuperating in the hospital. My brother has asked me to wait until Saturday when she should be released to check in with her. I am worried, but she is as tough as nails, and I am sure she will be fine. When you read this on Saturday mom, I am thinking about you and praying for a speedy recovery. Not being close enough to friends and relatives in the states to be there for them is a price of living half way around the world.
Speaking of prices, I haven't followed up with you on the expensive ties here in Dubai. I think two weeks ago I shared that I found ties that were between $200 and $300 dollars in the Dubai Mall. I did find a store (Saccor) that had much better deals ($60). I also visited the KM Trading store (Bargain Indian Department store). They had some ties priced as low as 8 Dirhams ($2.18). Well I bought a couple of the $10.20 variety from the "style" rack lol. I now have developed a tie habit. In the last 2 plus weeks, I have purchased 7 new ties. Time to get that habit checked, a little like a woman and her shoes...lol.
I did get a call from my car leasing company asking permission to charge my Master Card for the two tickets I got in December...sigh. Now talking about a waste of money - $400 to the Emirate (I could buy 189 ties at KM Trading for that lol). I think it is time to go back to religiously using the ole cruise control. I only get the date I "excessively sped" and the Emirate that I got caught in. I can request more information (even a copy of the ticket) but from experience, it would only mention in Arabic the roads name and the date. If I want to fight the fine/ticket I can by going to the "Ruler's Court". Yes enough said. I consented to my charge and I have moved along.
Speaking of costly, I got my second Filipina hair cut last night. I still cant believe that with tip, I am paying $48 for a hair cut. There are so many things I could write about the benefits of the salon ladies cutting my hair (I think next time I may get a pedicure also (would be my first ever). The guilty pleasure of people taking care of you is really a nice benefit over here. I still enjoy going to the spa twice a month for a $100 (including tip) massage. So, between massages and haircuts, that's $2,400 a year....now that is a nice price to pay for pampering, and that I will miss paying for when I finally return to the USA.
Two months from now, I will be in Virginia. I need a vacation. In February there is a huge trade show in Dubai. The Gulf Food Show is humongous. For the first time since I arrived in Dubai, I get to attend the show as a visitor. It will be a totally different environment than the first two shows where I was responsible for keeping everybody happy (Customers, Senior Management, suppliers, and Sales people) and somehow have a "good" show. I do look forward to visiting with the many Americans that attend this show. It truly is a spectacle.
Kelly called this morning between her jet setting trips with her new job. She was in Switzerland and Jordan last week and is traveling to Egypt and New Orleans in the next 6 weeks). I will worry about my Canadian friend while she travels to New Orleans...the place just isn't safe...lol. My inner routine clock is telling me that it's time to hop in the shower and fulfil today's schedule. I hope you have a great weekend, and please keep my mother in your prayers.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
A Good Week for Following up on Past Tidbits of "Great Adventure" News
What a beautiful day in Dubai. This morning when I woke up it was 54 degrees, and the high today will be 70 degrees without even a wisp of a cloud. In the last month, almost 400 people read this blog. I know many of you read regularly, but these numbers would seem to say over a 100 people keep in touch with our little career move through this blog. Rarely a day goes by that something interesting doesn't pass by me, sadly as old age creeps in I forget half of the good things I could blog about and probably 30% of the blog worthy events are self censored out because of Government, work, or friendship concerns...All that being said, this seems like a good week to ramble on about various loose ends.
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that one of my most memorable New Years Eve's was a childhood holiday spent with my mother and late grandmother. Well my good friend Lee Croy appealed the judges ruling by reminding me about New Years Eve 1985. I was attending Law School at George Mason University just outside of Washington, DC. Lee Croy and Danny Messimer (two of my life long friends made at King College) had come to visit me at my Arlington, Va apartment. There was a free James Brown concert being held in downtown District of Columbia and Lee and I thought, free why not. Danny was a scarity (Not sure this is a word, but you get it) cat (he was a wise scarity cat) and decided to watch the festivities on TV from my apartment. Well the crowd was immense and you had to push through the jam packed streets to approach the stage. As midnight approached people were throwing empty champagne bottles off the surrounding rooftops into the crowd. Lee and I pushed to about 75 yards from the stage when right in front of us a man was stabbed and collapsed to the ground. As I looked into the crowd, I realized a young white boy from rural Virginia did not appear to be a safe profile. Lee and I looked at each other and immediately acted like two salmon trying to swim upstream against impossible odds. We had ridden in on the metro/subway system and probably had a mile walk to get back to our station. As we scurried back, we saw a gang of teenagers beat and rob a young man. We finally made it to the subway train and watched a guy strung out on drugs repeatedly bang his head into the glass and try to pick a fight with some surprisingly restrained Georgetown students. We made it back safely...Here's Lee's memory from that night...
"I thought for sure I was making your blog again when you headed toward your most memorable New Year’s Eve. Our night on the town in DC can’t be beat. Leaving our cop friend at the apartment across from the Iwo Jima memorial, taking the Metro into town with the guy tripping out punching the walls and others on the train, seeing James “I feel good” Brown at the US Post Office building, glass bottles flying through the air striking other partiers in the head, the crowd opening up to reveal a stabbed guy laying on the ground, heading back to the Metro, mistakenly walking down a deserted drive between 2 buildings, 2 guys walking toward us, 2 guys coming from behind us, the 4 of them jumping the drunk youngster behind us, safely getting back to the apartment to find our brave cop friend waiting for us in safety. Was that 85 or 86 when you were in DC?"
Lee's right....very memorable night...I was genuinely scared for my life for a good hour. Of course that year in DC, I was generally scared...lol.
Speaking of scary nights, last night one of our Barakat office employees had a going away party. He has gotten an opportunity to relocate to London and we had a goodbye bash at an Indian restaurant. yes, the prearranged menu had me terrified! I sat with Suresh, Murali, and Nidhi and slowly ate my way to a stomach ache. It was a nice night to share with over 30 employees - but it was not Currylicious. Murali and I were suppose to go to Vietnam this coming week with a very important customer, but for reasons mentioned in the first paragraph about self censorship....well, let's just say the trip is cancelled, and sadly, no Vietnam trip for now.
One of the things that has changed the most since my summer of 2010 arrival, is American eateries in Dubai. New to the UAE, Texas Roadhouse (2), IHOP (2), Bennigans, Cheesecake Factory (2), and Shake Shack. These have joined some of my other favorites that beat me to Dubai - PFChangs, Fuddruckers, Chillies, Fridays, Pizza Hut and Papa Johns. I have found Papa John's to be one of my favorite places to eat. I love thin crust pepperoni pizza. Now,I have also found Papa John's to be woefully short on product availability. Almost half of the time (I wish I was exaggerating) they are out of a key item for me. Thin crust is out routinely. The garlic butter sauce is regularly unavailable. This week I went to lunch there and yes, they had no pepperoni. I may have to get busy and figure out how to supply them....lol.
Unfortunately, my upload picture feature is not working on the blog....otherwise you would have gotten pictures of Suresh, Murali, and Nidhi and me with my stomach ache. My football pool sees me in 4th place with this weekend and the Superbowl to go. I think I will finish between 2nd and 9th (in the money for the first time ever) so it has been a better year for me than my Cowboys (If my Cowboys would have won against Washington I would have a chance to win still :-( ) Darn Cowboys....suddenly I am done writing for this week. Have a nice weekend, see you here next Friday!
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that one of my most memorable New Years Eve's was a childhood holiday spent with my mother and late grandmother. Well my good friend Lee Croy appealed the judges ruling by reminding me about New Years Eve 1985. I was attending Law School at George Mason University just outside of Washington, DC. Lee Croy and Danny Messimer (two of my life long friends made at King College) had come to visit me at my Arlington, Va apartment. There was a free James Brown concert being held in downtown District of Columbia and Lee and I thought, free why not. Danny was a scarity (Not sure this is a word, but you get it) cat (he was a wise scarity cat) and decided to watch the festivities on TV from my apartment. Well the crowd was immense and you had to push through the jam packed streets to approach the stage. As midnight approached people were throwing empty champagne bottles off the surrounding rooftops into the crowd. Lee and I pushed to about 75 yards from the stage when right in front of us a man was stabbed and collapsed to the ground. As I looked into the crowd, I realized a young white boy from rural Virginia did not appear to be a safe profile. Lee and I looked at each other and immediately acted like two salmon trying to swim upstream against impossible odds. We had ridden in on the metro/subway system and probably had a mile walk to get back to our station. As we scurried back, we saw a gang of teenagers beat and rob a young man. We finally made it to the subway train and watched a guy strung out on drugs repeatedly bang his head into the glass and try to pick a fight with some surprisingly restrained Georgetown students. We made it back safely...Here's Lee's memory from that night...
"I thought for sure I was making your blog again when you headed toward your most memorable New Year’s Eve. Our night on the town in DC can’t be beat. Leaving our cop friend at the apartment across from the Iwo Jima memorial, taking the Metro into town with the guy tripping out punching the walls and others on the train, seeing James “I feel good” Brown at the US Post Office building, glass bottles flying through the air striking other partiers in the head, the crowd opening up to reveal a stabbed guy laying on the ground, heading back to the Metro, mistakenly walking down a deserted drive between 2 buildings, 2 guys walking toward us, 2 guys coming from behind us, the 4 of them jumping the drunk youngster behind us, safely getting back to the apartment to find our brave cop friend waiting for us in safety. Was that 85 or 86 when you were in DC?"
Lee's right....very memorable night...I was genuinely scared for my life for a good hour. Of course that year in DC, I was generally scared...lol.
Speaking of scary nights, last night one of our Barakat office employees had a going away party. He has gotten an opportunity to relocate to London and we had a goodbye bash at an Indian restaurant. yes, the prearranged menu had me terrified! I sat with Suresh, Murali, and Nidhi and slowly ate my way to a stomach ache. It was a nice night to share with over 30 employees - but it was not Currylicious. Murali and I were suppose to go to Vietnam this coming week with a very important customer, but for reasons mentioned in the first paragraph about self censorship....well, let's just say the trip is cancelled, and sadly, no Vietnam trip for now.
One of the things that has changed the most since my summer of 2010 arrival, is American eateries in Dubai. New to the UAE, Texas Roadhouse (2), IHOP (2), Bennigans, Cheesecake Factory (2), and Shake Shack. These have joined some of my other favorites that beat me to Dubai - PFChangs, Fuddruckers, Chillies, Fridays, Pizza Hut and Papa Johns. I have found Papa John's to be one of my favorite places to eat. I love thin crust pepperoni pizza. Now,I have also found Papa John's to be woefully short on product availability. Almost half of the time (I wish I was exaggerating) they are out of a key item for me. Thin crust is out routinely. The garlic butter sauce is regularly unavailable. This week I went to lunch there and yes, they had no pepperoni. I may have to get busy and figure out how to supply them....lol.
Unfortunately, my upload picture feature is not working on the blog....otherwise you would have gotten pictures of Suresh, Murali, and Nidhi and me with my stomach ache. My football pool sees me in 4th place with this weekend and the Superbowl to go. I think I will finish between 2nd and 9th (in the money for the first time ever) so it has been a better year for me than my Cowboys (If my Cowboys would have won against Washington I would have a chance to win still :-( ) Darn Cowboys....suddenly I am done writing for this week. Have a nice weekend, see you here next Friday!
Friday, January 11, 2013
The Mayor of Sandoval Gardens Reelected in a Landslide!
We are in the middle of a brutal winter chill in Dubai, highs most days not even reaching 80 degrees...Blah, blah, blah...Honestly it would be nice to see something other than sand blowing around in the air here. It appears that I will get to travel before the end of the month, and experience a little weather diversity. Murali (our Fish Monger) and I have planned to take a customer to Vietnam in late January. We are scheduled to fly into Ho Chi Minh City and then travel to a couple of seafood processing plants that produce "Basa" and a Black Tiger Shrimp aqua farm. I can remember joking back in the states that Basa (White fish that is a cousin to the American Catfish, that is also called Creme Dorie) was "porch raised Vietnamese Catfish". Who would have ever guessed that I might get to travel to Vietnam someday and see a Basa Farm. I am totally psyched! I have also already purchased my ticket for a vacation at home for the end of March. Eleven weeks from today, I will be trying to get over severe jet lag at my parents home in Lebanon, Virginia. I am looking forward to being back in the States.
Just over a year ago, I moved into my nice little Sandoval Garden apartment in Al Barsha, a neighborhood in Dubai. It was eerily quiet living in this 4 story apartment complex as the only resident. People slowly trickled in as my new neighbors, the parking garage filled. A year later there are no vacancy's in the complex, and I am happy with my nice apartment. It is 4 thousand dollars a year less than the building Bob and I first lived in here in Dubai, and it is closer to my office and much closer to our new facility being built in Dubai Industrial City. The roads were in disarray, but now a year later there are no longer any construction roundabouts on Al Khail highway, and I can drive from my apartment to Dubai Mall in 10 minutes. In a couple places there are 18 lanes of wide open highway, and none of the radar camera's yet. I cruise to work in the mornings at speeds approaching 150 Kmh (95 MPH). If I had a convertible and a full head of hair...well I don't have either, so let's stop the dreaming...
The latest news that may or my not be filtering back to America. Last week, the UAE security forces arrested 11 Egyptian Nationals, that were here in Dubai trying to organize a "Muslim Brotherhood Political Party". The Egyption Government is demanding their release and so far the official Emirate response is a resounding no. It will be interesting to see if these eleven Egyptians just disappear or are tried for their crimes or The Obama Administration steps in to put pressure on the UAE Government to release the prisoners...Somehow, I fear the latter of the three choices. I guess with old age come cynicism.
Speaking of Americana, I am enjoying the new Cable sports channel here that is featuring American sports. I got extra NFL games every week on the HD channel, and now they are showing all the PGA golf tournaments (all 4 rounds!). This is outstanding for me. I can't wait to see if they cover baseball this spring (fingers crossed). I forgot to tell you that my watching of the X-Factor was "spoiled" by my beloved Fox news. The show is on an 18 hour delay here, and Fox news blurted out before I could could close my ears that the Country singer (Tate) had won. It certainly made the final two shows less enjoyable. I taped the whole season of Survivor, rooting hard for Angie Layton. Man, or should I say Woman...(That's my Brent Musberger creepy old man moment)..lol.
Sadly, Angie was the third one voted out...
Season two of Homeland has just started, and of course I am just happy to get to watch some of my favorite American shows over here....speaking of fashion....
I did go shopping for ties last night. I was thinking that I should be able to get a couple of nice ties for under a $100. I was shocked to see the prices for ties at Dubai Mall...they were 1100 AED to 650AED ($300 to $170). Are they insane? Do ties cost that much in America now? I am going to stop in at KMTrading (Indian shopping at it's finest) this week and see what kind of deals are available...
Wasn't it nice of Al Gore to sell his TV cable network to Al Jezeera. Now you can come to the Middle East from your living room...lucky you...lol.
Enough of my dribbling (and drooling) this week, Thanks for stopping in, God Willing, I will see you next week.
Just over a year ago, I moved into my nice little Sandoval Garden apartment in Al Barsha, a neighborhood in Dubai. It was eerily quiet living in this 4 story apartment complex as the only resident. People slowly trickled in as my new neighbors, the parking garage filled. A year later there are no vacancy's in the complex, and I am happy with my nice apartment. It is 4 thousand dollars a year less than the building Bob and I first lived in here in Dubai, and it is closer to my office and much closer to our new facility being built in Dubai Industrial City. The roads were in disarray, but now a year later there are no longer any construction roundabouts on Al Khail highway, and I can drive from my apartment to Dubai Mall in 10 minutes. In a couple places there are 18 lanes of wide open highway, and none of the radar camera's yet. I cruise to work in the mornings at speeds approaching 150 Kmh (95 MPH). If I had a convertible and a full head of hair...well I don't have either, so let's stop the dreaming...
The latest news that may or my not be filtering back to America. Last week, the UAE security forces arrested 11 Egyptian Nationals, that were here in Dubai trying to organize a "Muslim Brotherhood Political Party". The Egyption Government is demanding their release and so far the official Emirate response is a resounding no. It will be interesting to see if these eleven Egyptians just disappear or are tried for their crimes or The Obama Administration steps in to put pressure on the UAE Government to release the prisoners...Somehow, I fear the latter of the three choices. I guess with old age come cynicism.
Speaking of Americana, I am enjoying the new Cable sports channel here that is featuring American sports. I got extra NFL games every week on the HD channel, and now they are showing all the PGA golf tournaments (all 4 rounds!). This is outstanding for me. I can't wait to see if they cover baseball this spring (fingers crossed). I forgot to tell you that my watching of the X-Factor was "spoiled" by my beloved Fox news. The show is on an 18 hour delay here, and Fox news blurted out before I could could close my ears that the Country singer (Tate) had won. It certainly made the final two shows less enjoyable. I taped the whole season of Survivor, rooting hard for Angie Layton. Man, or should I say Woman...(That's my Brent Musberger creepy old man moment)..lol.
Season two of Homeland has just started, and of course I am just happy to get to watch some of my favorite American shows over here....speaking of fashion....
I did go shopping for ties last night. I was thinking that I should be able to get a couple of nice ties for under a $100. I was shocked to see the prices for ties at Dubai Mall...they were 1100 AED to 650AED ($300 to $170). Are they insane? Do ties cost that much in America now? I am going to stop in at KMTrading (Indian shopping at it's finest) this week and see what kind of deals are available...
Wasn't it nice of Al Gore to sell his TV cable network to Al Jezeera. Now you can come to the Middle East from your living room...lucky you...lol.
Enough of my dribbling (and drooling) this week, Thanks for stopping in, God Willing, I will see you next week.
Friday, January 4, 2013
"They'll put you in Jail for Banging a Camel" - Kumail Feyzee Jan. 3, 2013
Well, now that I have your attention, it's time for the first blog of the new year. The multicultural, multi linguistic UAE leads you to learn different languages and phrases. English is the official business language here, and almost everyone speaks it with some degree of fluidity as their second or third language. I admire the ability of everyone to communicate, I know my two years of college Latin (fraudulent community college summer school courses to meet my Liberal Arts mandate for a degree) does me little good, and the three years of Spanish that I took, only helps me to say hello to Juan occasionally. Upon arriving here, I quickly learned some Arabic words like Halas (finished), Yani (like), and Burj (big). I also picked up some Philippine (Tagalu) words/phrases like Trabajo (work-it helps that the Filipino's use a lot of Spanish...) Uno, dos , tres (one, two, three) and "Too much Gurgle, Gurgle" (your talking to much and I don't want to talk - Yes, Rodz said this far too much lol). The difference is with my Indian friends. India itself has more than 25 different languages, but most Indians speak English and Hindi. I have not really picked up any of their language, but I do smile when they say awkward things because of an innocent out of context translation. Thursday afternoon, Kumail, Sufi and I visited our new 72,000 square foot plant (yes I was misinformed on the size earlier). We could see lots of progress from just two weeks ago.
On the way back from our tour, I was driving 140 kmh on Emirates highway, when a bunch of Camels appeared on the side of this fast highway. Kumail then said "You know John, they will put you in jail for banging a Camel", yes I smirked and then laughed out loud, then Sufi said it's true, "If you bang a Camel, they will arrest you"...I continued my laughing, and told them that they arrest you for that in America also, then they joined in laughing when I shared with them the alternative translation of what they had said. (Sorry mom, I just had to share that story - hopefully Mike will have to explain it to you)...So, I will definitely try and avoid running over a camel with my car, so I can stay out of jail.
Speaking of jail, I don't know if most of you are aware of the recent Al Qaeda arrests here in Dubai. The Governments of Saudi Arabia and UAE jointly arrested a terror cell and seized their weapons from here in Dubai. The Emirate and Saudi Nationals were planning on attacks against the UAE Government in retaliation for their strong ties to America. This happened on December 26th. In the fall, 60 suspected terrorist were arrested here in the UAE. Some of these Jihadist were from Sharja and RAK two of the most "zealous" Emirates. Now I am not officially worried yet, but it is alarming news. Hopefully, the UAE Government will remain vigilant in their effort to protect me and the rest of the law abiding Westerners that make up a lot of the "White Collar" work force here.
I spent my 50th New Years Eve in bed watching Dubai TVs coverage of the Burj Khalifa fire works show. It brought back my favorite New Years Eve memory (the runner up was having a double date with Fred and two gal-pals, coming back to Fred's parked car at 1 in the morning and finding it on fire. I called Fred's step dad collect from a pay phone because I though it was long distance - it wasn't and whenever I see Bill, he loves to needle me about this event from 30 years ago). When I was about 12 years old, my mother, Grandmother(Gran) and I were driving from the mountains of Southwest Virginia to Hamilton, Ohio on New Years Eve. A terrible Thunderstorm came, and the rain was coming down so hard that Mom couldn't see to drive. We stopped at a hotel in Prestonsburg.,KY, and got a room for the night. We had dinner at the hotel Restaurant (Johnny Bench was the entertainer at the hotel's New Years celebration - I wanted to go soooo bad...) and my mom was in bed asleep by 9 pm. Gran and I sat and watched Guy Lombardo and heated a roll on the rooms heater for a snack before midnight. What I would give to have a night chatting/cackling with Gran again....It's even funny to me, with some of the parties and wild events that I was a part of on so many New Years Eve, that special night with Mom and Gran is the most memorable of my life. I think living here away from family and friends has put a lot of things in perspective.
Thank you for checking in with me, I hope to see you all soon...
Speaking of jail, I don't know if most of you are aware of the recent Al Qaeda arrests here in Dubai. The Governments of Saudi Arabia and UAE jointly arrested a terror cell and seized their weapons from here in Dubai. The Emirate and Saudi Nationals were planning on attacks against the UAE Government in retaliation for their strong ties to America. This happened on December 26th. In the fall, 60 suspected terrorist were arrested here in the UAE. Some of these Jihadist were from Sharja and RAK two of the most "zealous" Emirates. Now I am not officially worried yet, but it is alarming news. Hopefully, the UAE Government will remain vigilant in their effort to protect me and the rest of the law abiding Westerners that make up a lot of the "White Collar" work force here.
I spent my 50th New Years Eve in bed watching Dubai TVs coverage of the Burj Khalifa fire works show. It brought back my favorite New Years Eve memory (the runner up was having a double date with Fred and two gal-pals, coming back to Fred's parked car at 1 in the morning and finding it on fire. I called Fred's step dad collect from a pay phone because I though it was long distance - it wasn't and whenever I see Bill, he loves to needle me about this event from 30 years ago). When I was about 12 years old, my mother, Grandmother(Gran) and I were driving from the mountains of Southwest Virginia to Hamilton, Ohio on New Years Eve. A terrible Thunderstorm came, and the rain was coming down so hard that Mom couldn't see to drive. We stopped at a hotel in Prestonsburg.,KY, and got a room for the night. We had dinner at the hotel Restaurant (Johnny Bench was the entertainer at the hotel's New Years celebration - I wanted to go soooo bad...) and my mom was in bed asleep by 9 pm. Gran and I sat and watched Guy Lombardo and heated a roll on the rooms heater for a snack before midnight. What I would give to have a night chatting/cackling with Gran again....It's even funny to me, with some of the parties and wild events that I was a part of on so many New Years Eve, that special night with Mom and Gran is the most memorable of my life. I think living here away from family and friends has put a lot of things in perspective.
Thank you for checking in with me, I hope to see you all soon...
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