I have registered with the local embassy, have my passport back, and now have my iqama (green card). It is awesome, I can open a bank account and everything. Nowadays all we do is bus to campus (1.5 hours each way) to watch slow powerpoint presentations. Someone asked today if we had the first amendment at [...]
In WWII we lost many bombers. We noticed the planes coming back had bullet holes mostly in certain places. So we reinforced those places hit. This was wrong because they were the planes that made it back and thus did not suffer a fatal impact. We should have reinforced the places returning bombers did not [...]
Boom. Boom. Boom. Went the firecracker in the crowded pedestrian tunnel in old Jeddah. Of course what went through my head for a second was the suicide bomber in Riyadh that tried to kill a prince earlier in the day. The relief came fast enough. But the group of us Westerners in a place that [...]
Yesterday we got on the buses at 6:30 am for a full day of activities that last until midnight – no room for sleep. On the buses were boxes that were about the size of a laptop box. The excitement was dwarfed by the reality of a lot of packaging that had at its core [...]