Driven by Curiosity…

Mr. M. called me… M.is THE most popular guy among the princesses and sheikhas' here. He has this event management company, and so he is involved in all their happy occasions!! it goes on from there.

One of his friends was looking for someone to help her in her new position in her dad’s empire. One of our friends happens to know M. and he passed the CV to the sheikha. She took one look at it, and decided I was THE person for the job. I was in Amman at the time, we kept postponing the meeting till I come back. When I was finally back she was on vacation in Spain, then in a wedding in Egypt, then a vacation from the vacation in Beirut, then a meeting in God knows where… the meeting kept postponing from one week to the other, till we FINALLY met.

I have to admit, I was impressed, she is smart, cute, very outspoken, and very professional. She took me from one office to the other, showing me what my office would look like. On the penthouse, a sea view… simply unbelievable!

She showed me around, proud of her dad’s exquisite taste, the colored walls ( by a Jean Paul, who was so honored to come all the way from Paris, to draw on their walls). The golden plated desks, the rare Iranian carpets, the fresh pots of flowers… I thoughts these guys know how to live.

We talked and talked… this job was good, they wanted me to be a consultant, help them develop a woman department, take care of their business in Spain and Germany… my life was finally going to be EXCITING.

Then we talked about compensation.

I am not going to go into this now… but the point is I did not take the job, because I would not be able to afford my clothing for the job!

Why am I writing about all this? Well yeah, after few weeks of declining the offer M. called me again trying to comprehend why I did not take the job. Explaining to me what a great family they are, He told me that the opportunity is still there if I am interested…. But not one penny more! (speak on knowing how to spend!)

What do you think I did?

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Natasha has been asking me to write about the situation here.

Several events were canceled last week because of all the rumors circulating. The main problem in this place is that they never tell you what is REALLY going on. People hear things here and there, and feel they are compelled to fill the gaps. I know one thing though; things we hear are not exactly very good.

Last week they put more security around our compound, I personally did not like it much, for two reasons, first it means they are really worried. Second more security draws attention that there is a compound here. I'd rather it stays hidden. I am happy we live in a very small compound.

I can feel the panic here, several people stopped sending their kids to schools (it being the end of the year is actually the stronger reason) many of our friends left, some of them for good. They just believe no money is worth losing your life for, which is true.

But life goes on, most of us are trying to live as normal as this place offers.. which is not much! Do the events affect us? Yes they do, we no longer go to drink coffee at starbucks (which was the highlight of my stay here), and we no longer go to the beach on Fridays. When we go out with sevgi, we make her cover her hair, because she is the only one who does not have Middle Eastern features.

What is sad about all this is that nothing in these acts are religious. God does not want people do things like this, in the first Islamic wars, the prophet used to say don’t touch people who are in involved even if they belong to other religions, don’t touch property, (houses, cars, lands…etc.) don’t touch trees or plants or animals…

These acts have distorted the picture of our religion, made it look violent and inhuman, while in reality, like any other religion, it is NOT like this.

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