After a long week at school of marking midterm exams and getting progress reports ready before our next holiday, Julie and I had a very nice and relaxing day. It started at Etisalat Academy, the recreation facility we joined (Etisalat oddly being the main cell phone company here). We had a nice time swimming and sitting by the pool. After getting back and a little bit of planning for our trip to Ethiopia, we went out to the Jumeirah Palm. That's right, onto Dubai's famous man-made island. Amidst recent complaints about the Palm that the sand was not smooth enough and the sewage systems did not always work adequately with the shifting sands, it still was very neat to be out on it. A friend of a friend's aunt is staying at his aunt's house while he is on an internship in Dubai. The house was massive, as are most of the villas out on the Palm. We had a nice walk on the beach around the tip of the Palm. It was nice just being outside of our flat and in such a special place (although I would not want to live there). So next time you see the palm on the map, you can see where I walked on Frond O, the second closest frond to the shore on the southwest side of the Palm.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Palm Frond O
After a long week at school of marking midterm exams and getting progress reports ready before our next holiday, Julie and I had a very nice and relaxing day. It started at Etisalat Academy, the recreation facility we joined (Etisalat oddly being the main cell phone company here). We had a nice time swimming and sitting by the pool. After getting back and a little bit of planning for our trip to Ethiopia, we went out to the Jumeirah Palm. That's right, onto Dubai's famous man-made island. Amidst recent complaints about the Palm that the sand was not smooth enough and the sewage systems did not always work adequately with the shifting sands, it still was very neat to be out on it. A friend of a friend's aunt is staying at his aunt's house while he is on an internship in Dubai. The house was massive, as are most of the villas out on the Palm. We had a nice walk on the beach around the tip of the Palm. It was nice just being outside of our flat and in such a special place (although I would not want to live there). So next time you see the palm on the map, you can see where I walked on Frond O, the second closest frond to the shore on the southwest side of the Palm.
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