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Taste Test Saudi Style

One of the great things about moving countries is that every culture you come across over there, has its own way of doing things. This also seems to apply to my classes at the high school I am attending here. This week, we were doing a so called “Taste Test” in my IB Business and Management Course. This basically means that once the class has split into groups, each group brought in…

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Days Like This One

Today was a rather stressful day. I mean I really do enjoy the new school, the people and the cultural diversity here but sometimes I just come home from school and have a really hard time understanding how some people manage to handle a 35 to 40 hours week and still find time for other things. I guess this is just the way you feel when you get used to something new…

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My First Day as a Senior

One of the hardest things in the morning, after being on vacation for almost three months, is getting up early. But it is even harder to get up at 5.30 in the morning because the schoolbus is leaving at 6.30, while according to your inner rythm it is 4.30 in the morning when you have to get up. With these thoughts in my head, I somehow managed to get up, put on…

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