Updates

        "You live but once; you might as well be amusing."

o   Coco Chanel

          Not a lot going on these past few days on the Alasem frontier. It is Eid this week, so Badr and I have a week off of work. I love it, since my job is somewhat of a bore. But, thank God for my job because if I had to sit at the apartment all day by myself doing nothing, I would go crazy.
           We went to Dairy Queen today, which was an experience. In Saudi, there are "Men Sections" and "Family Sections" in restaurants (I know, DQ isn't really a restaurant). Family sections are basically a nice way of saying, "Hey women, this is where you can go." I honestly feel like I'm in the time when the "separate but equal" stuff was going on in the States with black people and white people. In this case, I'm the one being discriminated against.
           Badr was with me and we had to go to the back of DQ. I'm not joking, the men's section was the front door and families (any group including a woman) had to use the BACK DOOR. And the restaurant is divided into 2 levels, so Badr and I walked up a flight of stairs and ordered our food on the second level. The men's sections is the bottom floor and you use the front door to enter.
            Tomorrow we are planning on going shopping for more decor for the apartment (which I'm excited about!) and then on Thursday we are going to Thadiq, a small village that Badr's grandparents used to live in.

This was in the States at the Gentry Safari.