Here comes the rain again...

Yesterday was hilarious... the rain came back. But first, I'm still feeling awful; I went into work on Thursday because I had to get up for my first ever Skype interview anyways. Which, I think, went ok. Not great, but probably good enough. It was weird to see them and try to talk to them, do you look at the camera? Look at them on the screen? It's hard to feel professional while sitting on the floor in front of my computer. Well, anyways, I made it through the day at work, stayed in for most of the weekend. I went to the beach for a few hours and thought it was cold, later while talking to my mom I realized it was probably at least in the 80's, but apparently that's cold now. 

Ok, back to Saturday (yesterday), I ran errands all morning and then a friend called and asked if I wanted to go to lunch. A few of us ended up going to this beach bar and grill at my favorite hotel. It was going great, then out of nowhere, we started watching this cloud of sand start rolling in, it started getting a little windy, some people started moving in and we were just sort of sitting there watching, talking about it, next thing I know one umbrella goes flying, then in a matter of seconds, chaos... umbrellas started going everywhere, our entire table lifted up and dumped all of the coffee and desert all over me. I was thrown off my chair and somehow landed on this umbrella stand, or maybe the umbrella itself. I don't really remember. Then I sort of pulled myself up off the ground and started looking around, a friend of mine was yelling at me to "just go, go, go!" And I sort of looked blankly at him and then looked back out at the water and around for a second and then realized the three of us, a few other tables, and the waiters were pretty much the only ones still standing there. It was hilarious. We were in no real danger, but you definitely don't want to be around me in time of crisis, I pretty much froze. The thing I was most disappointed about, besides the random bruising from the dishes, table and all that, was that I thought my white pants were ruined, but don't worry, it all came out. We woke up to flooded streets this morning, but we still had school. Sad. I will say, the way they get rid of standing water is ridiculous. It's not just at school, but all over Duabi. They get out there with no shoes on and sweep the water towards a low point where it can collect, then there are guys standing there with buckets and they fill up the buckets and then throw the water. I'll really miss this place...