We now have wireless in the apartment which makes it a lot easier to download the mail and reply in a timely manner! We're both well. It seems, after 4 days of work, I work twice as hard for half the pay that my husband is getting! HMMMMM....... Any way. So far I am helping on City Scape Dubai which is a huge real estate investment show. Dubai is like fantasy land with projects that are out of this world being proposed, designed and built. I don't know how they will all go in the current climate but I guess we will see! The next things I am helping coordinate ( I am after all the marketing coordinator!) are the Australian Business Council (of Dubai) Business Breakfast with some Gary somebody who works for Emirates and played footy a long time ago, Roger Taylor and Colin Meade are also speaker at another function (footy players) , then it's the SIDs & STARs (some cockpit terminology) event for the Emirates Pilots Club and this is being held at the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club , Then the EPI sailing series,Nathan Wilmott Aussie gold medallist in sailing will be there to sail, teach the youngsters and perhaps speak, then the Bledisloe Brunch and the Kiwi Ball....the rugby 7s, getting the picture, I will be expected to attend some but not all of the events. So far the job is easy enough- just organising people places and bits and pieces however there are currently very few guidelines so I don't quite know how much to spend,who and how many are likely to come etc etc.
I will be able to set up my bank account once my husband writes a "no objection" letter- sharia law and all that and I will be able to get a "labour card".
David still has the company car and I am either catching a taxi to work (6.50 AED or about $2.20) or walking- I always walk home. Today I was in the building behind the apartments at City Scape so walked both ways.
My next task will be to buy a few more "corporate" clothes and Hina, aki (Packistani with Glasgow accent-gotta love the cultural diversity here) is drawing me a map to find her favourite tailor and fabric supplier. They're apparently really cheap and if something is good value on special in a shop but too big you buy it anyway and have it altered.The suburb where all the tailors work is called Satwa and is close to here (750m) Most shops are open from 9am ish to 12 midnight or 1 am. Nothing is open early. The other area I have to check out is Karama where they have the copy handbags- a "real" fake means it is made of leather not an ordinary fake. I actually bought a vogue magazine so I can take the pictures of the ones I want! Now we have the internet in the room and as soon as we have my account set up we will be able to organise the internet banking.
The cat had a rough few first days- she was dehydrated and refused to eat. She arrived on the second day of Eid ( a public holiday celebration for the end of Ramadan) and so we couldn't get anything done. We eventually bought some piriton (appetite stimulant in cats) from a chemist having purchased 25 different sorts of cat food (can't get Hills here) and force feeding, getting bloods run at a near by vet hosp etc etc. Last 48 hrs she has been pretty good (since the stimulants) She is starting to play in the tunnel and likes being on the (now cat proofed) balcony (14 stories up).
We have purchased some pot plants and herbs to help us feel at home.
Another big day tomorrow. He bought home camel milk to try today- you've got to be joking! Sykesy had a camel milk milk shake and says phooey to us infidels- he says he now has a big hump!