the one-month milestone

♠ as the title suggests, i've now been in Dubai for one month!

♠ nothing major to report with this blog post, just to stop in and let people know that i'm still alive and have a smile on my face -- i'm beginning to feel settled here in Dubai, have met some great people who i'm becoming great friends with


♠ in another two weeks time, i will have completed my six-weeks training, and will be taking to the skies, off to see this world! i'm so excited and it feels like it's just around the corner, and at times i have a little difficulty in grasping the concept of jetting around the world and seeing all that it has to offer, but that very concept will soon be my day-to-day life, and i cannot wait!!!


♠ i tried taking a couple of photos of my apartment building to show my friends back home where i'm living, but the photos didn't do it any justice, so i've trawled around on the internet and found a couple of shots from the professionals:










♠ that's all from me for now, i look forward to writing home about my first flight!! hope everyone back home is just swell, and please keep in touch, i love hearing from you all -- it keeps me going


let the good times roll!!

do it, buy it, dubai it

♠ ok, so i've now been in Dubai for one week, roaming around trying to do my very best at discovering the city that will be my "base" for the next, well, i don't know how long.

as a real rough estimate, i guess i'm here for a fair while anyways

♠ after a pretty rough start -- the first few days were so hard, for some reason i couldn't shake the immense feeling of homesickness and was just missing my family and friends an incredible amount

but now, i've begun my training for my new job, and my mind has been kept so occupied with meeting new people and learning new policies and procedures that the homesickness only has a chance to creep in at night times as i'm drifting off to sleep -- and consequently, my appreciation of this city is growing


♠ this adventure thus far has taught me that there's a massive difference in:

♣ seeing a city for the first time through the eyes of a traveller passing through
and
♣ seeing a city for the first time through the eyes of someone who will be residing in this city for an indefinite amount of time

i'll elaborate:
-- where previously on my travels abroad, i'd instantly been able to fall in love with the slums of Bangkok, the cheap trashy glitz of LA, and the dangerous streets of Papua New Guinea at night, for some reason i was unable to instantly bestow upon Dubai my immediate unconditional love -- though it is immeasurably cleaner than Bangkok, has more culture than LA and far safer than Papua New Guinea.

i can only guess that i loved all those aforementioned places because they were so different from my home, -- and now i couldn't do the same for Dubai because now THIS IS my home, and I needed it to be perfect, like the home i'd left behind.


♠ but skip a couple of days ahead of all that melancholy, and i'm much happier here now -- i'm happy to be in a position to be able to meet so many great people everyday, and i'm indescribably happy with the idea that in five weeks time when all my training is done, i'll be off to a new country every week! finally, this insane desire to see the world will finally be satiated!

♠ anyways, i'll spare you any recount of my training, for if the training is somewhat boring for me at times, for you i can only imagine that talk of this training would border on the mind-numbingly mundane.


♠ i've attached the one and only photo i've taken in Dubai, it's me in my new apartment and a portion of the view from my room


i find it odd that in a city full of so many people, that i could ever feel lonely -- i guess that's me discovering i'm human!!





♠ i will post again when i have more photos -- i'm scared of boring you to death with all this TEXT!!!


let the good times roll!!