Miriam of Arabia

Journaling. Blogging. I’ve been told that I should—no—must keep a blog as I wander around the world. I can see the logic in that, for my future self, as well as for those who care to read it now. Having said that, I haven’t felt as though the time were right for a post. Even this one was prompted by an external force.

So as a recap of the last year, I’ll make a list, since I do like lists and am not feeling incredibly verbose. Plus, this statistics might reveal an underlying cause for my lack of blogging:

2009 – The Year of Schizophrenia

Number of Countries Passed Thru: 16

Germany

Morocco

United Arab Emirates

Oman

Jordan

Turkey

Bulgaria

Romania

Hungary

Slovakia

Czech Republic

Poland

Ukraine

USA

Bahrain

India

Major Languages Used to Survive: 3

French

Arabic

English

Number of Countries Lived In: 3

Morocco

Oman

United Arab Emirates

Number of “Homes”: 6

Number of Jobs for the Two of Us: 0

Languages Studied: 2

Modern Standard Arabic

Gulf Arabic

Number of Schools Enrolled in: 3

ALIF

GAP School

USC – Moore School of Business

Number of Internships Secured for 2010: 2

Creative Concrete Concepts

Target

As 2010 starts, I have just moved to Sharjah, UAE (الشارقة, الامارات) and am working my first internship as an internal consult for Creative Concrete Concepts. With 6-day work weeks, I try to pack in the fun on my Fridays off, which has been comprised of one border hop to Buraimi (our old homestead) and a night on the town with Buraimi-ites in Dubai. I will try to post more little cultural vignettes before I return Stateside in the Spring... but no promises.

Cross-posted to LJ.