job interview
It has been very quiet; I don’t know what makes people more nervous, the news or the no news. I guess with situations like this, people see things that do not exist, and as i said before, it goes down to not having information
Jeddah is packed these days, it is the season of immigration to Jeddah, ( I just remembered a book called season of immigration to the north by tayeb saleh, it is actually one of the best books I have ever read, if you did not read it, jump to the closest book store and get it) where was I? Yes, people in Saudi, the ones who do not travel, come to Jeddah to spend the summer, it is relatively more open than other places, that means women dont have to cover their hair, also it has restaurants where you see other people, women do things alone…etc. And the Sea gives it some very special atmosphere.
We went to have dinner yesterday, these days wherever we are, we only talk about one thing! it is always interesting to hear what people think.
I have talked to different types, the conservative, the religious, the open, the exposed. Everyone agrees that this is wrong. It is good to know that what is happening does not represent anyone. It only represents few people with hidden agendas. What bothers me is that they give bad picture about all Muslims, which is not fair, because it is very easy to generalize and think everyone is the same.
On a different note, I was watching spider man with one of my little friends, he is less than 5 years, I asked him if he liked it and he said “yeth, becauthe it hath kithing!” ( yes because it has kissing!) I thought that was the cutesiest (cutetht!) thing ever.
My job hunt is still going. After my experience with the sheikha, I realized that one of the problems here is the exploitation! I mean just because I am a woman, and my husband is working and earning money, they belive the only reason I want to work is to get out of the house. And so they give women the minimum! but they have absolutely no problem to waste money on their gold plated desks… things are more important than people here. but again, this is only one situation,and i dont want to generalise, I know people who are perfectly happy here, and I know people who fully respect other people here. the issue is that sometimes it gets really really boring, I mean i started feeling that i lost 6 months of my life for no reason at all. For those who commented on my story with exploitation, I tell them, i did what i felt was the right thing but it was one of the most difficult decisions in the last few months… I declined again!