Oh yes, the great US, after a months-long campaign and millions of dollars spent on convincing people the other candidate is worse, finally has two candidates for president. I mean legally there still some things need to be done, but we can be almost sure that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will fight for the presidency of the US in November. I wish them good luck, and also good luck to the people of the US.
First day of Ramadan
Today is the first day (2016.06.06) of Ramadan. In non-Muslim people minds’ pop-up just one thing, for 30 days Muslim cannot eat or drink during the day. Of course, Ramadan means much more, but I will not go into religion as I am not competent. I will write a little about how it looks like because Ramadan changes the rhythm of the day.
The last day of school
Today is the last day of school, so Girls wear fancy dresses.
Is it globalization when a European living in the Middle East, sends her kids to the Hindu school and describe this all in English?
Merry-go-round
A few days ago I read about British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond visit in Saudi Arabia.
Cluster bombs
Just a brief comment to the radio news I have heard in the morning while driving kids to school. In the Middle East, the weekend is on Friday and Saturday. Sunday is a normal, working day.
The news: White House has quietly placed a hold on the transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia. You know, the cluster bombs that were banned by an international treaty in 2008, just the democratic US and peaceful Russia forgot to sign it.
I like Kuwait
Before you start to laugh at the huge flag of Kuwait hanging on the house, look at the image below. I took it few years ago in the US.
…and now you can laugh.
Kuwait newspaper and other issues
I have bought a newspaper today – Kuwait Times – it costs 150 fils.
There is news from over the world. At the first page, the biggest title is about Yemen. There is also about labor law – fines for hiring employees without visas were doubled, now it is from KD 2 000-10 000. The labor issues are very important in Kuwait as the 2/3 of the people living here are from abroad. There is also news about Philippine presidential election – there is lots of Philippinos here and about Cairo, also a lot of people from Egypt. So the first page reflects the national structure of people living in Kuwait. We just have missed Hindus. Maybe in tomorrow newspaper, there be some news from India on a first page.
At the beach
Last weekend was a bridge weekend. On Thursday we went to the, so called, private beach. It was a family day, that means that only family is allowed to enter. In Kuwait, there are also lady’s days when only women are allowed to enter.
What’s wrong with this picture?
When EU prepared a refugee relocation plan in September 2015, it assumed that EU will pay 6 000 euros for every person per year.
A little more than a half year later in May 2016, EU has new refugee relocation plan. It says that if some member country refuses to take refugees, it will have to pay 250 000 euros penalty per refugee per year.
The 3rd of May Constitution Day
Yesterday evening we went to the diplomatic event organize by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kuwait to celebrate the 3rd of May Constitution Day.
For all those who do not know, the Polish Constitution was passed in 1791 (May 3rd) and it was the first constitution passed in Europe and second in the world after the United States.
