Today is Sunday. Which, in the UAE, is the equivalent of Monday, and was the first day of classes. But I had an interesting day.
I woke up earlier than my alarm, which was nice- I figured I would have a nice, relaxed breakfast and then get to the Downtown Campus for my 10AM class. But I checked my email. And I got a syllabus for my Arabic 101 class, which meets Monday-Thursday. Yet the syllabus I got said that the first class was today, the 4th. I had a moment of panic and got down to the DTC as soon as I could, where I found out the syllabus was for all of the Arabic 101 classes, some of which did have class.
Then 10AM rolled around- Government and Religion. Now, this is an odd class, because it meets all year, and not on every Sunday. Since this was the first week of class, we all assumed we had class. And then, like what sometimes happens when you put smart people in a room, logic goes away. We waited for 40 minutes before calling one of the assistant professors only to find out this was one of the Sundays that we didn't have class.
And then I got lost. Judy and I were trying to find the stationary store to get school supplies, and because it was really hot and we were told the store was far away, we took a cab (cabs are really cheap here- one reason- cheap fuel). But we didn't know the street intersections (they don't use numbers much here). We knew the name and one of the streets. Which wasn't enough. So we ended up going to Marina Mall, to a store called Carrefours- like Wal-Mart. Never found the stationary story. Moral of the story- know the street intersections or directions before you go!
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I woke up earlier than my alarm, which was nice- I figured I would have a nice, relaxed breakfast and then get to the Downtown Campus for my 10AM class. But I checked my email. And I got a syllabus for my Arabic 101 class, which meets Monday-Thursday. Yet the syllabus I got said that the first class was today, the 4th. I had a moment of panic and got down to the DTC as soon as I could, where I found out the syllabus was for all of the Arabic 101 classes, some of which did have class.
Then 10AM rolled around- Government and Religion. Now, this is an odd class, because it meets all year, and not on every Sunday. Since this was the first week of class, we all assumed we had class. And then, like what sometimes happens when you put smart people in a room, logic goes away. We waited for 40 minutes before calling one of the assistant professors only to find out this was one of the Sundays that we didn't have class.
And then I got lost. Judy and I were trying to find the stationary store to get school supplies, and because it was really hot and we were told the store was far away, we took a cab (cabs are really cheap here- one reason- cheap fuel). But we didn't know the street intersections (they don't use numbers much here). We knew the name and one of the streets. Which wasn't enough. So we ended up going to Marina Mall, to a store called Carrefours- like Wal-Mart. Never found the stationary story. Moral of the story- know the street intersections or directions before you go!
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