Walla! Saudi Arabia in January is unbelievable.
Cool breezes replace the sticky humidity, the desert takes on a green hue, and keeping on par with last semester, KAUST decided to give us a four week extended vacation. It’s borderline scary how used to this lifestyle I’m becoming.
Upon returning to KAUST after the winter holidays, the students [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Pon de WEPlay
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Why IS the Red Sea called the “Red Sea?”*
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
If there is one way to justify spending half of my KAUST stipend on traveling during my first semester, it’s that I got invaluable experience getting on to an airplane departing for “Saudi Arabia;” a mental accomplishment in itself every time (if you’ve done it, you know what I’m talking about).
I don’t know if it’s [...]