Hey guys!
So I'm already a terrible blogger because I didn't even manage to make a good-bye post....I thought I would find WiFi in the airport and I didn't. But I left from JFK yesterday (?) at 11 pm and arrived in Abu Dhabi, UAE at 8:30 pm. So this has been a veryyy long night for me. My dad's college friend Jo met me at the airport and drove me to her home town of Al Ain, which is about an hour and a half from the city. She took me to one of her favorite restaurants for a late night dinner (although I get the feeling "late" doesn't mean much here) where we had stuffed grape leaves, a platter of vegetables, and hommos beirut served with an unspecified meat that we used to stuff pita bread. Jo taught me how to scoop the hommos onto the pita using only my right hand (the left hand is considered dirty) and ordered us "juice cocktails," which were an interesting mixture of thick strawberry, banana, avocado, and mango juice (See photo below). After eating we drove through downtown Al Ain back to Jo's apartment, where I am now!
Tomorrow we are going to get breakfast and then head back to the airport at 10am for my 1:55 flight to Kathmandu. It is incredibly generous of Jo to host me, especially since she has a flight to Maine at 1:30 am tomorrow so she will have to make the drive to the airport twice tomorrow. But I am thrilled to be here. She is a fascinating woman with so many stories to share and her apartment is filled with trinkets from her travels (she said her friend once described her apartment as "a badly organized ethnographic display"). It would be nice to stay here longer and learn more, but I guess there is plenty to be learned in Kathmandu! I'll try to check in with you all as soon as I can after settling in at Ramro Sathi.
Love,
Kate
So I'm already a terrible blogger because I didn't even manage to make a good-bye post....I thought I would find WiFi in the airport and I didn't. But I left from JFK yesterday (?) at 11 pm and arrived in Abu Dhabi, UAE at 8:30 pm. So this has been a veryyy long night for me. My dad's college friend Jo met me at the airport and drove me to her home town of Al Ain, which is about an hour and a half from the city. She took me to one of her favorite restaurants for a late night dinner (although I get the feeling "late" doesn't mean much here) where we had stuffed grape leaves, a platter of vegetables, and hommos beirut served with an unspecified meat that we used to stuff pita bread. Jo taught me how to scoop the hommos onto the pita using only my right hand (the left hand is considered dirty) and ordered us "juice cocktails," which were an interesting mixture of thick strawberry, banana, avocado, and mango juice (See photo below). After eating we drove through downtown Al Ain back to Jo's apartment, where I am now!
Tomorrow we are going to get breakfast and then head back to the airport at 10am for my 1:55 flight to Kathmandu. It is incredibly generous of Jo to host me, especially since she has a flight to Maine at 1:30 am tomorrow so she will have to make the drive to the airport twice tomorrow. But I am thrilled to be here. She is a fascinating woman with so many stories to share and her apartment is filled with trinkets from her travels (she said her friend once described her apartment as "a badly organized ethnographic display"). It would be nice to stay here longer and learn more, but I guess there is plenty to be learned in Kathmandu! I'll try to check in with you all as soon as I can after settling in at Ramro Sathi.
Love,
Kate
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