So It is now the Month of Ramadan in the UAE. What does this mean? you ask. it means that all Muslims fast all day until the "iftar" which is basically the only time they can eat it means "breaking of the fast". what does this mean for non Muslims? well, basically it means we cannot eat or drink anything in public... if a Muslim is within sight of you, you may not eat anything or drink anything, this includes water. . . in 108 degree weather. What else does this mean? Bars do not play music. for one freaking month. go to a bar around 11 pm in the states and ask them to turn off the music for a while and see how awkward it is. This also means that businesses are only open specific hours during the day. mainly we do not like the bar issue. ohh well. the good news is that it ends sometime mid-late September, which is very close to my birthday! so when the drinking is fun again, we are going to be psyched!

RedGuy

The Island

Hey folks,
Just a quick update about my latest shift with K. we went to their island, which is fairly small but with enough room for a compound of little bungalows and a kitchen and formal "hat room" yeah i know,.. that's weird. there were like 200 hats or something like that. on the island they have a couple boats and jet skis and all sorts of fun toys. we went tubing and jet skiing and had a blast. i wish i could have taken pictures but i didn't really want to take my camera on a jet ski. this coming weekend I intend on taking my camera out and getting some good pictures.
until then.

Red Guy

A couple more things...

First off, I Want to give credit where credit is due. My best big sister Alley told me to make a blog for being out here and call it something like "Chronicles of the Red Guy" I don't think I could have come up with a better name so i went with it.

Also, I Will be posting pictures as soon as I take some, as of right now all I have are a couple pictures of my Villa, yes you heard (read) that correctly, I live in a Villa. It's sweet.

There can be only one

Red Guy

Genesis

This is The BEGINNING.

Here you will read/see my adventures in the United Arab Emirates (Middle East). You will see the trouble I get myself into and hopefully how I get myself out of it... I don't know exactly how often i will be posting but I will do my best to keep up with it. then again we all know how I do with that. I have a book called "the things they carried" and i am only 3/4 through it... I've had it for about 3 years. but I promise to be better with this.

There Can Be Only One.

Red Guy