...is here to update you with the latest from Dubai. It is hot, it is humid and it is all sand around the place this individual lives in.
Phewww...it has been hectic right from day one - the program is structured such that you go back to your villas (that's what my hostel is) only to study or sleep. I must admit I have been a lame duck doing nothing more than that - except for a trip to a shopping mall (that was to buy a SIM card).
Call it my love for the motherland or my love for nature - I hate Dubai....
Phewww...it has been hectic right from day one - the program is structured such that you go back to your villas (that's what my hostel is) only to study or sleep. I must admit I have been a lame duck doing nothing more than that - except for a trip to a shopping mall (that was to buy a SIM card).
Call it my love for the motherland or my love for nature - I hate Dubai....
It is a city which is almost eternally into construction and infrastructure upgradation. The outcome - you have posh residential districts/ apartments/office buildings/malls...picture perfect roads and so many other construction wonders [one has to check Burj-Al-Arab, amazing place - ofcourse I can't afford even peeping in the place as of now ;-) ]. They have managed to create a buzzing city in the centre of a desert ....one realizes that when you go to the outskirts of the city. I stay in an area which is called - Al-Barsha - the only thing you see here is majestic villas - and sand. You have no people moving outside - even in the evenings when the sun is down....and one who comes from the second most populous nation certainy doesn't feel amused.
The misery continues in term of the food we get here - the prices charged in my college campus and residential area are so exorbitant that one has to resort to veggies most of the time :(......with all due respect to the vegetarians, imagine having to survive with ghaas-foos (that too in a desert!) when you are known to nod the head in disapproval for any all-veg meal.
The misery continues in term of the food we get here - the prices charged in my college campus and residential area are so exorbitant that one has to resort to veggies most of the time :(......with all due respect to the vegetarians, imagine having to survive with ghaas-foos (that too in a desert!) when you are known to nod the head in disapproval for any all-veg meal.
And the icing on the cake is the hostel blues that one has had to face over the past 4 weeks...the college admin hasn't been up to the mark and things ranging from non-availabilty of water to shifting villas to avoid being thrown out of the community (municipality served a notice to vacate the premises coz we were an overwhelming number of bachelors staying in a residential community).
All that has been negated in a certain way by the excellent faculty that have visited the campus since day one. One feels a bit safe if you judge the program based on the faculty/curriculum for your ROI, but mind you - am just talking about a bit, one is never satisfied enough ;-)
All that has been negated in a certain way by the excellent faculty that have visited the campus since day one. One feels a bit safe if you judge the program based on the faculty/curriculum for your ROI, but mind you - am just talking about a bit, one is never satisfied enough ;-)
