Thursday, August 03, 2006

Not much going on in the Kingdom

It's the weekend here in the Kingdom. The weekends here in Saudi Arabia are Thursdays and Fridays (Fridays being their equivalent of our Sunday). There hasn't been much to do around here in the last couple of weeks - I've done more PT here in the last 2 weeks than I did in the last 3 years at RTB.

We just found out that the classes we were supposed to have about 2 1/2 months to prep are now starting in less than 2 weeks. In the states that wouldn't be too much of a problem, but here things move a lot slower. You can't get anything acomplished until you sit down with your counterpart and talk, dring some tea or coffee, and get to know them. On top of that, we just found out that we don't even have classrooms or even offices to give these classes. The up side is that, even though we're WAY BEHIND the power curve, I know we'll get it done - I'm working with some pretty good guys and we seem to work well together.

Sorry that there are no pictures yet, but I have been off the camp that much yet. I'll try to get some up soon.

6 comments:

Jonathan Scott said...

Awesome. Can't beleive we can get regular updates from a friend deployed half way around the world. Technology rules.

I'll be checking in regularly. By the way, 1SG Sammy was in the office. Down here on vacation, and had a lot of great things to say about where he's working. Says that life is great right now, he has more time for running than ever, and he and his boys are making mad TDY on deployments around the world. Makes me jealous.

Anonymous said...

I've done more PT here in the last 2 weeks than I did in the last 3 years at RTB.


So... you're saying you did more than play basketball?

And you didn't expect things to actually work the way they told you, did you?

AND HURRY UP WITH THOSE PICTURES!

Ha. Seriously, always good to hear updates from The Kid.

You complete me.

HUMN330 - Brown, K said...

Shut up... Shut up... You had me at "So"... (a little choked up this time) You had me at "So"

Yes, more than just basketball... I'm hitting the gym and running once or twice daily.

It's amazing to me that the Very VERY little that they did tell us can be so grossly inacurate. I belong to 3 different organizations right now and none of them wants to take ownership of us.

Scott - great to hear about Sammy doing well. If you get a chance to talk to him again, tell him I said "Hi".

Anonymous said...

And tell him he's too short.

Jason Evans said...

Sounds like a good time. Interesting about how things run at a slower pace there.. That's what they warned us about in last week's "class".

How's the tan coming along ??

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