{"id":1702,"date":"2013-03-07T20:54:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:27:37","slug":"traveling-around-abu-dhabi-united-arab-emirates-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-abu-dhabi-united-arab-emirates-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Traveling Around: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Realizing that the expat life there can be very, very nice!
\n\u2022 Enjoying the Middle Eastern cuisine and wishing it was the cuisine where I live.
\n\u2022 Going to mall after mall after mall after mall.
\n\u2022 Feeling jealous about how big the grocery stores were there compared to my host country, so many products that I would buy if I lived there.
\n\u2022 Walking along the corniche.\u00a0 Corniches in the Middle East are just cool places to walk around, especially during sunset.
\n\u2022 Stopping many times in a taxi as my taxi driver asks stranger after kind stranger if they know where to go to find my friend’s house.
\n\u2022 Checking out the new, modernized souk and conversing with a souvenir store manager about where I could find original artwork. (Fail)
\n\u2022 Pulling up to hotels and restaurants and there always being a valet person to park our car for us.
\n\u2022 Meeting expat after expat and asking them many questions about their lives living in Abu Dhabi.
\n\u2022 Thinking how interesting that all the restaurants have a mock-tail menu rather than a regular cocktail menu (alcohol is prohibited in this country).
\n\u2022 Getting accustomed to taking taxis around town or driving in my friend’s car around town.\u00a0 Still a bit strange sometimes when many international school teachers live their lives abroad car-less.
\n\u2022 Hearing all about the different customs related to the clothing of the UAE man and woman.
\n\u2022 Being amazed at how diverse the city is. The majority of people here appear to be from India.
\n\u2022 Choosing almost not to go into the grand mosque because I wasn’t dressed appropriately. (I did end up going in and wearing the free robe on offer at the mosque entrance)
\n\u2022 Having a moment of surprise when finding out that the weekend here includes Friday and Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday.
\n\u2022 Taking a trip out to the desert and doing a dune bashing ride as our driver drove crazily around and on top of really high dune hills.
\n\u2022 Buying some excellent dates at the date market.\u00a0 Felt happy about my purchase until somebody reminded me that I should have bargained down the price!<\/p>\n

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Currently we have 14 international schools listed in\u00a0Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on International School Community.<\/a> Here are a few that have had comments and information submitted on their profile pages:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Al Raha International School Abu Dhabi<\/a> (5 Comments)
\n\u2022 American Community School Abu Dhabi<\/a> (12 Comments)
\n\u2022 American International School (Abu Dhabi)<\/a> (11 Comments)
\n\u2022 Sheikh Zayed Private Academy<\/a> (7 Comments)
\n\u2022 Glenelg School of Abu Dhabi<\/a> (10 Comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0Institute of Applied Technology (Abu Dhabi)<\/a> (12 Comments)
\n\u2022 GEMS American Academy (Abu Dhabi)<\/a> (37 Comments)
\n\u2022 Horizon Private School<\/a> (10 Comments)<\/p>\n

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