First day in Dubai
Day 1.
At the office.
Here is a rundown of the photos.
1 is the entrance just in front of the office.
2 is the comfortable AIESEC UAE office
3 is one of the courtyards where we have lunch
4 is a picture of the Microsoft Building near our office and the water out front of it.
5 is Deepak thoroughly enjoying the nice, less scorching, weather
6 is my lunch from yesterday :).
Unfortunately day 1 in Dubai is already over. It is funny, it feels like I have been here for about a week or two so far. I really got a good feel for the place and after having done all the research I did before getting here it really felt comfortable and not far from home. I don't feel like I am in the middle east, nor do I feel like I am over 10,000 miles from home.
At first I wrongly assumed Dubai could be compared in some way to Tunisia. Dubai is nothing like Tunisia. Dubai, rather, feels like a small community in the US to me. If you took a city in the US with a large Latino population, changed them to Arabs, made the white people Indians and Pakistanis and the black people white, throw in a few Phillipinos and Africans, you'd be pretty close to the ethnic make up of Dubai. It is just about as multicultural as any large city in the world, perhaps more so in some ways.
The biggest thing that I am yet to get over is the construction. For a quick example, in addition to three Palm Islands, the World Islands, and the world's tallest building, Dubai is taking the area where we work and they are adding approximately 4-5 new sky scrapers right now. I guess they are building, within the next 1-3 years, around 95 more here. You heard me right, they are taking an already booming commercial area and multiplying it by around 5 to 6 times within less than 3 years. Below you will find some pictures of the older downtown area. I will find a way to get some of the newer booming area I spoke of at a later date. Cheers.
PS. Dubai was really cold last night. There was a steady breeze of the gulf and we were all out at a barbeque in a park with AIESEC. I wore my jacket and was still cold, even for a Michigander like myself.
At the office.
Here is a rundown of the photos.
1 is the entrance just in front of the office.
2 is the comfortable AIESEC UAE office
3 is one of the courtyards where we have lunch
4 is a picture of the Microsoft Building near our office and the water out front of it.
5 is Deepak thoroughly enjoying the nice, less scorching, weather
6 is my lunch from yesterday :).
Unfortunately day 1 in Dubai is already over. It is funny, it feels like I have been here for about a week or two so far. I really got a good feel for the place and after having done all the research I did before getting here it really felt comfortable and not far from home. I don't feel like I am in the middle east, nor do I feel like I am over 10,000 miles from home.
At first I wrongly assumed Dubai could be compared in some way to Tunisia. Dubai is nothing like Tunisia. Dubai, rather, feels like a small community in the US to me. If you took a city in the US with a large Latino population, changed them to Arabs, made the white people Indians and Pakistanis and the black people white, throw in a few Phillipinos and Africans, you'd be pretty close to the ethnic make up of Dubai. It is just about as multicultural as any large city in the world, perhaps more so in some ways.
The biggest thing that I am yet to get over is the construction. For a quick example, in addition to three Palm Islands, the World Islands, and the world's tallest building, Dubai is taking the area where we work and they are adding approximately 4-5 new sky scrapers right now. I guess they are building, within the next 1-3 years, around 95 more here. You heard me right, they are taking an already booming commercial area and multiplying it by around 5 to 6 times within less than 3 years. Below you will find some pictures of the older downtown area. I will find a way to get some of the newer booming area I spoke of at a later date. Cheers.
PS. Dubai was really cold last night. There was a steady breeze of the gulf and we were all out at a barbeque in a park with AIESEC. I wore my jacket and was still cold, even for a Michigander like myself.
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