So yesterday we got not only rain, but a thunderstorm. I love it when it rains at home and I didn't realize how much I missed the rain until yesterday. Earlier that morning, it was sprinkling, but not too bad, so me and a friend, Danna, walked down to the little shopping center, Matajir. It's not that big, it has a Carrefour, McDonalds, Shakespeare and Co, and a bakery, among other things. We were getting groceries and then stopping by the bakery to get some fresh homemade Manakheesh. It was very good. When we turned to head back to the university, it was pouring buckets full from the sky. We watched it just puddle outside for a few minute. Around the entrances to buildings and then even on the ground between buildings in our academic quad(ish) there are these large tiles. So the water was starting to create large puddles on these tiles and not soaking into the ground. Slowly the water started to building up and the automatic doors were open for some reason and so the water was slowly piling up from the outside and spreading indoors. It was a mess.
We eventually were able to call a taxi and get back to the dorms, only slightly drenched. On the way back though, the taxi was driving and sending up these huge sprays of water from where it collected on the road. I guess rain is enough of a commodity to mean that not all roads are made with good drainage systems. I heard Sheik Zayed road, which goes into Dubai, can get really bad at times from water build-up. As we passed onto campus, right beyond the gate, there was enough of a dip, that the water was collected in just a big puddle and was sloshing over the sides of the curb. I wished I had my camera to take a picture at that point.
This weekend is also National Day Weekend. So we have Sunday and Monday off from school. It's a four day weekend, yay! Although I've been asking some of my classmates if they have any great plans and most say no. This weekend is being used as a weekend to catch up on sleeping, eating, and studying. Unfortunately this weekend falls around the time for a second round of midterms. I myself have a midterm coming up this week and then next week and then a paper due the following week, etc. until the end of classes, which is around the time of the new year. It's January 7th in all actuality. The end of the semester is coming closer and either some of friends are counting it down or avoiding considering the last day of classes. I'm somewhere in the middle.
We eventually were able to call a taxi and get back to the dorms, only slightly drenched. On the way back though, the taxi was driving and sending up these huge sprays of water from where it collected on the road. I guess rain is enough of a commodity to mean that not all roads are made with good drainage systems. I heard Sheik Zayed road, which goes into Dubai, can get really bad at times from water build-up. As we passed onto campus, right beyond the gate, there was enough of a dip, that the water was collected in just a big puddle and was sloshing over the sides of the curb. I wished I had my camera to take a picture at that point.
This weekend is also National Day Weekend. So we have Sunday and Monday off from school. It's a four day weekend, yay! Although I've been asking some of my classmates if they have any great plans and most say no. This weekend is being used as a weekend to catch up on sleeping, eating, and studying. Unfortunately this weekend falls around the time for a second round of midterms. I myself have a midterm coming up this week and then next week and then a paper due the following week, etc. until the end of classes, which is around the time of the new year. It's January 7th in all actuality. The end of the semester is coming closer and either some of friends are counting it down or avoiding considering the last day of classes. I'm somewhere in the middle.
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