I'm all refreshed from being on vacation. I'm inspired to learn lots of arabic, get to know more people, and be a good employee. Sometimes I have to force myself to be interested in things like geophysics and land survey design, but its worth it.
I got my first real case of jetlag this time. It's my third morning in Oman, and I still woke up at 3am, after falling asleep at 6pm yesterday.
On the way here, I got to experience the exclusive Lufthansa buisness lounge in Frankfurt. It was kind of crowded and a little ugly, but it had big comfortable chairs, free Gummi bears, free Lift apple soda, as well as coffee, tea, vodka, champaign, tasty whole grain bread with chive cream cheese, and more.I bought myself three language books at an airport shop, Turkish, German, and Greek to prepare for my next vacation. I felt very international sitting there in the buisness lounge reading foriegn language books. I didn't get too far into learning the languages though. I spent most of my time giggling at the "romance" section that had vocabulary for hitting on and hooking up with greeks, turks or germans. "I like you very much" and "That feels good" and the like. Tee-hee.
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A romance section - that cracks me up. I can picture everything you described - you in a set of omani work clothes among a bunch of european men in suits. They wished they were having as much as you as you were reading your language books.
Lift and Gummibears? How far has German culture fallen! What happened to strudel and Munich Bier?
I wish you coulda been there to appreciate it with me Carolyn. Here is one for you, in Modern Greek:
"me the-lis mo-no yia to seks"
--you're just using me for sex
And, keep on falling, German culture, fall right into my mouth, and bring the Lift and Gummibears with you.
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