It's sometimes (or mostly) a struggle to think of a title to every post, so here I am getting the title of this post from Adele's song 'Hello'. How original, self. But since i'm literally on the other side of the world right now, I guess it seems appropriate. So hello from the other side... Hello from Kuwait!
After days of boring visa transactions in Manila, I am now finally in Kuwait with my love. If you're asking why Kuwait, my love is an Arab and he's a Kuwaiti.
Anyway, here's a story... My first day here was spent on sleeping and eating Arabian food with the husband. During that night we had grocery shopping, and side-by-side with my love we picked some items and food so that we can settle in our apartment. I can't seem to ignore the looks of the people especially Arab women. Their looks are would usually go from Ali to me and then they would frown a bit, and there's this girl after looking at us she whispered something to someone older than her and the woman looked at me with a bit of disgust. I was shocked and a bit broken hearted. I realised that what I've heard back home was somewhat true, that Arabs really treat Filipinos as minorities or as low class. But I have no intentions to stereotype, i'm not closing my doors yet, I know that there are still humble and down-to-earth Arabs out there, I just have not seen them yet.
I've been here for a week now but I haven't seen the most of Kuwait yet, maybe tomorrow or the day after that, who knows. As of now i'm enjoying the view from our apartment window: the sun peeking from tall buildings during early mornings, the birds resting on our window and flies away every time I come near them, and watching cars come roaring on the road as they pass by.
Hello from the other side! Hello to new places and adventures!
