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I am taking a Lifeguard course now! In part as it is necessary to get a Rescue Diver certification.

The pool is at Dive Caroline. And the weather turned cold on the weekend, so tonight used a wetsuit and still was chilly! Mostly due to the wind.

This is where I am living:

And this is my car:

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Well, it for sure looks like the season is changing and is here to stay. Yesterday morning it was windy and cooler. You notice when it drops from around 40 to 30 degrees C. And today, it is staying the same range, around 30 deg C with wind. I never thought in my life that I would think it is getting cool when it drops to 30 or 28 degrees C.

Here’s the forecast for Kuwait.

This is not my site! But, I suppose anyone called Ian must have good ideas. I tried the secure knot, it works, just be careful that it might be too hard to untie.

Ian’s Shoelace Site - Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot

If you don’t recall, Thursday and Friday are the weekend days here. I don’t think I will every get used to it. Mostly that the work week starts on Saturday.

I’m hanging out in the Kuwait Hilton Starbucks, it is nearly midnight and there is no slowing down.

As it is Ramadan, places open at 5:00 in the evening and close very late. They close here at 2:30 am. I’m sure I won’t last until then. I’m going to pack it in very soon.

So after the partial dive trip, I had a big snooze then went to a local Sahaja Yoga meditation nearby. That ended at 7:00 pm then I went to a different place for dinner, Applebees. The dinner was a bit more expensive than normal. Though here you can’t really think about things like what it costs in Canada. Everything western is a bit more expensive, period.

It was 7.5 KD. Not cheap, I usually spend 2 or 3 KD for dinner. (Multiply the KDs by 4 to get Canadian dollars) That was for a juice, salad and a steak and salmon dinner. Good food, and a change from the usual Lebanese style cuisine that I have. Certainly during Ramadan with no lunch the big dinner isn’t too bad, though it is really at least a third more than one needs!

We went out in the boat. The water had swells of up to about 1 meter. So the going was slow and the boat was ploughing up and down the swells. Dive Caroline has an older smaller boat and a larger newer boat. We went in the smaller boat, departing at 8:00 am. Then we got to Kubbar Island and tied off the boat to the anchor buoy.

Well, as it is near full moon and the tides are strong the current was strong and also the water was rolling the boat quite a bit side to side. Everyone started to gear up, but before long, someone was seasick over the side. This started a chain reaction through the people on the boat. Three of us got in the water and avoided the heaving boat.

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Hello everyone.

In response to many questions about what life is like in Kuwait, I setup this blog.

Also, I’ll post various notes of my travels. Stay tuned.