Just had the Medical and it was pretty painless. It is conducted like a conveyor belt.
You go in, get your picture taken, fill out a form, get weighed and measured, give blood and urine, give fingerprints and get a chest x-ray.
I was in and out within an hour. Impressive.
Couple of worries though – they said according to my BMI: I am obese. I tell you it’s a good thing they took my blood pressure first because I was boiling after I found this out. I would probably have failed due to high blood pressure.
The medical staff were very friendly, although, everyone is friendly here. (oh, except the immigration officials at the airport – they were rude and barked orders at me ‘SIT! LOOK AT THE CAMERA’ and ‘NO, CLOSER. CLOSER CLOSER!’. To be fair to them though it was 3am in the morning and it will have been a long day – who needs a night shift ay?) They told me to go and get an Emirati shave, cheeky bastards, at this barbershop place. I appreciated it though as I forgot my razor and I am getting a bit scruffy.
In other news
Lebanese restaurant
We went for a Lebanese Restaurant last night and let me tell you, its how restaurants should be. We (there were two of us, there was meant to be six but as we took two taxis, and there is three branches of the same chain of Lebanese Flower restaurants, we got separated and ended up in two different restaurants. What made it more of a comedy of errors was that none of us have phones yet so we had no way of knowing where the other guys were. After an acceptable amount of time to wait and assume they had got lost – 20 minutes, we ordered without them) ordered two dishes.
About 13 came out – there would have been enough food for the other four to join us and not order anything else. Hummus, salad, bread, olives and all sorts. We also ordered a drink each that was the most expensive drink (A Lebanese cocktail – alcohol free mind ) on the menu and it had ice cream, banana, pinapple, crushed fruits and almonds – it was brilliant.
The best part – the price. It was 50AED each for everything. (A tenner. In England just the drink was enough to justify £10 – I will be going back. Although, now I am obese, maybe ill get the veggie option next time)
EID
Eid marks the end of Ramadan (Time for drink and food in the daytime) and apparently it is huge here – Think Christmas but it lasts for four days. Im sure it will be an orgy of cheap shopping, cheap drinks, and lots of cultural festivals and music.
I am told that all the shops drop their prices to 30% of the original price and I will be getting some clothes – I will have to go with someone, as those that no me, know how agitated I get when shopping.
I am going to the grand Mosque later – I may take a picture for you, but will be better to type ‘Abu Dhabi Grand Mosque’ into google and have a look.
I now have a 5 day weekend EID break, all orientation is done.
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