The weekends

What do you do in AD on a weekend? As the temperature is already pretty high, hitting high 30s and low 40s, there is only one thing to do, wear smaller clothes and head for the pool/beach!

The first weekend we were invited to an all day beach party, at a private villa on a secluded island! What a 36 year old, "slightly chubby" guy from Birmingham was doing there I'm not quite sure, but it was fun! There were about 350 young lebanese guys, who really partied hard from 10.30am to about 6pm, and I mean partied hard. The tickets were for an all you can eat, all you can drink event, and some of these guys, in fact most of them, definitely got there monies worth! They were nuts (in a very good, fun way)! The look on some of there faces as we staggard back to the boats to bring us back was a sight!

The second weekend was a bit more sedate, with most of the company meeting at a lovely hotel complex for a day relaxing by the pool and enjoy a great lunch. It was a top day, where us "Brits" were able to get to know the other nationalities that we work with in a social setting. It's pretty easy to fall into a "them" and "us" kind of environment, where the Brits fall into a clique of their own, which I don't really like, so it was good to have a general chat, a laugh and a drink with the Egyptian guy, the Lebanese girl, the Sudanese guy.

A two day weekend is a Friday and Saturday, where the relaxing, family day (the equivalent of our Sunday), is the Friday. So Saturdays are spent doing the weekly shop, going to the malls, the stuff you would do on a Saturday back in the UK. They might be back to front weekends, but they still go very quickly!