What do you do when you are the only Asian in the room and all the others are Arabic-speaking people?
Is it a first for me? Not really. Ever since I started working in Dubai, I have been in few situations and meetings where I found myself listening to people even though I didn’t understand a thing that they said. Name it – clients and business partners who speak German, Arabic, French, Spanish and Hindi. Can it get more awkward than that? But it’s okay, it’s just one of the things you have to get used to when you’re working abroad. It felt like watching a foreign movie without subtitle!
That meeting warmed up my brain in writing this post. I missed writing about “my first” for Day 3. I was supposed to do it before going to sleep last night but my bed was such a temptation. So here I am recalling what happened yesterday…
“Approach a stranger and make small talk.”
Okay, that’s it. That’s my challenge for the day. I’ve never done that before! I was walking on my way to work and was thinking about how, when and where I could do this when I spotted him. He was walking towards me. A cute blonde guy in a suit. The perfect stranger to approach and have small talk with huh? 🙂 But sorry to say, it didn’t happen. Haha! 🙂 I realized it’s almost 9 and I couldn’t be late for work. (Excuses!!!) We smiled at each other but the small talk didn’t happen. Okay, move on!
It would have been a juicier and more exciting story if that small talk happened huh? 😉 Otherwise, I had a couple of simple “my firsts” yesterday. I tried this new Arabic yogurt for the first time (which unintentionally became my only meal for the day) and was able to fix a problem with our wireless printer in the office. That was a first. I didn’t even bother to know about wireless printers before. Oh I wish you had seen the triumphant smile in my face when I was able to make it work! 🙂
This whole thing of “trying out something new every day” is kind of exciting. (That rhymes!)
It makes you pay attention to things you never really care about before. It makes you want to do things differently in your everyday life.
Isn’t that good? 🙂
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