Yes, that’s right.  You read the title correctly. The pool has challenges every month.  This month’s is swim the distance from Bahrain to Saudi Arabia (we just call it Saudi) during the month of April.  The distance is 20,000 meters, which is 400 laps. I signed up today.  Already  I have done 1500 meters.  And [...]

We’ve actually had a thunderstorm here!  That is majorly exciting.  I thought Bahrain never had storms, ever.  I am in my second year here on this island, and this is the first storm we’ve had.  Sure we have dust storms, but here I’m specifically speaking of storms with some kind of water falling out of [...]

First, I’m sorry I haven’t posted since early January.  I even had some posts planned, but they just didn’t get written.  I got busy at work and then studying for my EXW and then I got sick–for three weeks.  I call it the Bahraini Crud because that virus has swept through the island and everyone [...]

Mom’s been visiting me. She got here on the 14th and she goes back soon.  I’m sorry about that; this visit has seemed so short.  But I’ve really enjoyed having her here. Jeremy and I have taken her around to see various places.  We took her to see several historical sites: a couple of old, [...]

I miss writing my blog, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to do it. I have several posts about our vacation back in May that have been sitting in my drafts folder in the admin part of my blog all this time.  Someday I plan on posting them–it’ll probably be in the [...]

I promised you I would post the winner of the Bahrain Gulf Air Grand Prix.  I know it’s a little late, but work’s been crazy lately.  So the winner is (drum roll) Ferrari’s Felipe Massa who is from Brazil.  He won last year too.  The race was 57 laps and his time was 1 hour [...]

Today is the third and final day of the Bahrain Gulf Air Grand Prix.  The event is huge here and officially started on Friday, continued on Saturday, and will finish today, Sunday.  It is Formula One racing.  For those who don’t know, Formula One is the “funny-looking race car” racing.  It’s the kind, when you got [...]

Getting supper was an adventure tonight.  It was brought on by the following thoughts: I don’t want to cook tonight. I have a coupon for McDonald’s. I rode my bike to work this morning, so that means I don’t have to try to drive and park on American Alley, which is where the closest McDonald’s [...]

I looked at the calendar today, something I don’t do every day, believe it or not, and I noticed that today is the start of Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. (and probably Canada too).  So I thought I’d write about the time difference between Bahrain and the Western Hemisphere since, subjectively speaking, it’s changed [...]

I have been asked to write about the church I go to here in Bahrain.  I thought I’d mentioned it before now, but I guess I hadn’t.  Sorry about that. Jeremy found the church on the Internet.   I don’t know what website he found it at.  So sorry I can’t point you in that [...]