Happy UAE National Day!
Here’s wishing a very happy 39th birthday to a country that, for all its foibles and frustrations, has undoubtedly become home to me at some point in the past 3.5 years.
As Alexander over at Fake Plastic Souks says in his post on the holiday (a great read if you fancy a little UAE history), “Here’s a National Day toast: good luck to them, warts and all. We’re all here because it’s better than there, after all, aren’t we?”
Couldn’t have put it better myself.
My goal for the day is to finish up a couple presentations and a financial model in time to enjoy the parades, fireworks, and sheikh-foiled cars… somehow my client 3,500 miles away in Nigeria has the nerve not to realize this is a public holiday, so I’ve got my work cut out for me.
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The (mis)adventures of an All-American girl in the Middle East.
