This is my third week in Dubai now.
Is there any progress concerning my work? Hardly…
I dont have work right now – but i least i got fed with popcorn. (Have i mentioned before that i urgently need to buy running shoes so i can hit the treadmill again?)
Today no customers are in the office. My boss is on a business trip in Italy. So everybody is taking it VERY slowly and relaxed….
Should i complain? At least i have an email address and internet access. Oh… no phone so far…
But i keep telling myself that it can only get better… the deadline for this will be after one month. Thats the limit i want to deal with boredom. There were days were i was busy. You cant call it challenging work – but at least i was busy. So lets hope today again is an exception.
At home we got a new flatmate…. nothing bad so far to tell about her… except that she arrived with her mother (the girl is 28). So right now we have a small mummy issue in our flat. We are all poor and young… and the flat is not the most luxurious one. Believe it or not we can cope without a kettle… in total emergencies we can boil water on the stove. There IS a microwave to heat up water for a coffee or tea too. If you ignore the fact that our toaster looks a bit disgusting, it toasts the toast good enough and the washing mashine at least works if u sit next to it and push the button for the next programm every 15 minutes.
We learn how to take it with a smile 
Its just not the place your mummy fits in.
So far i have been the lucky one to show her how to heat the water in the microwave and where to switch on the oven. (isnt a mummy supposed to know that???)
Yesterday there was the big issue (again it was me sitting in the kitchen at the time of the discovery) that someone took her cheese bought the day before. Thats not the way its supposed to be. You cannot just eat the cheese of other persons, at least ask if u want some… Did i mention that we are living with 7-9, depending on visitors, people living in one flat? So it can happen you use the stuff thats in the fridge… as long as its the basics no big deal…
Mummy thought so differently and even woke up one of my flatmates to ask him if he was the one…
Do i have to mention that we all got an email from the person responsible for the flats, that stuff from the fridge has been missing…
The cheese indeed is a big issue compared to the laptop that went missing last week and surprisingly turned up in the trash in the stairway …
Wednesday Mummy is supposed to leave. Then again there will be Peace and rest in our flat.
April 15, 2008 at 1:34 pm
VERY FUNNY!