A whirlwind July (and August)

So firstly I must apologise for my very long absence. July (and most of August) has been and gone, and so has all of the travel, holidays and weddings.

This year’s July will be particularly memorable to me. After 4 long years, I finally travelled to Algeria to visit my boyfriend’s rather large (enormous) family. Of course I have met his parents and sister in Paris where they reside, but never his aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins. The only thing I have to say about the sizes of families in Algeria is; they are huge. Oh and they don’t speak English, only Arabic and French. The main purpose of the visit was to attend his cousins wedding using this as a good way to introduce me formally to the family. But anyway, I will write a separate post about Algeria since I have many photographs to share with you.

I also had to make a flying visit to England to attend a friend’s wedding. This will be the first friend’s wedding I have attended but not the last since I have 2 more weddings to attend next year. It suddenly dawned on me that I am indeed getting older and I am at that stage in my life where everyone is walking down the aisle! And if they are not walking down the aisle, they are most certainly having babies!

There is some other news I wanted to mention. I have recently become fed up in my job. Fed up of being told ‘no’ when I ask for a pay rise. Fed up of seeing the awful treatment of some of my colleagues. But mainly fed up with the lack of opportunities career wise. So I have started to look elsewhere. Needless to say there is not much for me on this island and as a result  I have extended my search outside of Bahrain but within the Gulf. I have recently pursued a very interesting opportunity in a neighbouring country and just completed a rather exhausting design project for this company. It’s supposedly a ‘proper’ company, with a ‘proper’ salary and hopefully ‘proper’ work ethics, but after everything I have seen and experienced here in Bahrain (work wise), I won’t hold my breath. Anyway I will have to wait until after Ramadan for a response but I will keep you posted.

Oh and a piece of exciting news! We recently finished filming for the American TV show I keep mentioning. More coming up on that soon­.­

I have to say that the last 7 weeks have been exhausting, but I am happy to be back blogging.

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