UAE adventures

hey peeps, coming to you all the way from muscat in oman right now on a very snazzy computer in my hotel lobby! the ambiance music in the lobby here is enough to make you vomit but there you go, this is oman!
but wait... what have i been up to in the meantime in the UAE? well now children its quite simple. I arrived in the morning of the 11th and got through dubai passport stuff pretty easily, i mean this irish passport thing is gold! so then the taxi fiasco started.... the guy was a dubai taxi so he didnt know sharjah that well (where i was headed to stay with kerryanne) but finally after a number of phone calls and confused directions we made our way to the cricket stadium in sharjah to meet kerryanne in her school! yes kerryanne is ateacher out there in sharjah! now this is not some underprivildged thing, these kids pay big bucks to be taught by unqualified irish teachers ! she lives on campus so it was like being in a summer camp with the weather and the lovely little houses that they live in (for free!). so since kerryanne was working from sunday to thursday i took myself off to the UAE captial for a few days staying with a friend of kerryanne's for the duration. this is where paddy enters the story! he too is a teacher, but his kids run wild! i spent my days in abu dhabi checking out the very few sights and tanning on the beach! paddy took meout one night with all the school teachers (mid week i ask you!) we ended up in some place called rock bottoms (apparently its a chain) but i had such a laugh i couldnt care where i was! and par for the course paddy tried his luck... uh oh...but luckily i was on to his game early on and faked extreme drunkeness and feel asleep (solo) on the couch, we never talked of the incidednt so i thought he had forgotten it but no he texted Kerryanne about it! ah well! i bussed itback to sharjah, that was an experience, being the only white person on a bus.... but ihad no major incident until the bus nearly crashed into some crappy driver! but arrived safe and sound at the school... then it was the weekend, this was all about and all you can eat dinner, oh and the dinrks wer included (think back to the discription of the brunch and be very afriad) so wee annoyed the waitors for ages about drinks and suddenly we were all pissed as farts and full from random food and heading to the nighclub, which we had to pay into cos we werwe too late :( god i felt so ill! so much so that i headed into the loo and forced my fingers down my throat! but to no avail... so i tried the next best thing.. danvcing! i headed into the mass of puksing bodies near the dj adn started giving it socks!~ i soon gathered a crowd of men, and not in the sleasy way. it was awesome.. cos we were having a dance off! for about 3 hours! i sweated all the bad alcohol out of me and the best bit was that at the end of the night they all left me standing in the club without so much of sleasy word between them! the next week was a whirlwind of desert safari, waterparking and skiing! oh yeah you ski in the desert!
xx