Yes, traveling back home takes that long.



Summer's ending for me, which means school is lingering around the corner (nooooooo! D:). I've spent an entire day flying from one half of the world to the other-ish. The route is Charleston > Atlanta > Amsterdam > Muscat, Oman. All the while, I only slept 4 hours or so (I hate sleeping sometimes because it messes with my body clock).

Anywho, for those who don't know where Oman is, it's in the Middle East on the Arabian peninsula. It's under Saudi Arabia, above Yemen, and across the sea for Iran. Though it's the country with barely anything in it to do, it is well ran and admirable when it comes to caring leadership and safety. Cheers to Oman (even though your internet speed does sucks sometimes)!

Surprisingly enough, I don't really have lots of photos of this place. It's a desert but there is some greenery and decoration. No building is above 4-6 floors and the temperatures are freakishly hot. There is NO way I'm going out in this weather unless it was my pool. Even then, I don't feel like risking having my feet charred from the hot pavement.

The winter is coming which means we might, just MIGHT, get rain. Whenever it rains, people update their facebook statuses in absolute delight while people in other places furrow their brows in confusion. Apart from that, the temperatures are at perfect summer level (and trust me, you don't want to know how hot a REAL Omani summer is like).

Now that I'm here, I have to adjust to some of the funny laws again such as it being illegal to have a dirty car. Another "law", or really a custom/respectful gesture, is to wear decent clothing. No showing of the cleavage, shoulders, armpits, and above the knees. In this case, I really miss home country America for me to be able to wear anything I want to wear regardless of how ridiculous or possibly showy (though to be honest, it's not that I wear revealing things, it's just that I like winter/fall wear and particularly peculiar items). However, this is just how it is, so I live with it.

I will say that I do more than some people who visit from elsewhere (and I'm specifically pointing out the Philippines here) who wear tank tops and nearly short shorts. Ugh! No wonder Filipinos get a bad image! Mind you, I'm Filipino myself so I get the strange looks sometimes because of this bad reputation.



Anyway, this was just my own status update.
Strange news from a strange land that most people probably never heard of.

I hope everyone's had a great summer though! And for those traveling, I hope you get home safe as well. :)




(ps: I apologize if my post seems to have a negative vibe to it. I'm not in anyway that angry at anything, I just like to point things out.)