Veeery beery meery Xmas :)

We all enjoy challenge ...

Change is the only sure thing about life. Almost two years ago I packed my suitcases and decided to meet my personal challenge, leaving my whole previous life behind. I came to Dubai to broaden my knowledge in various working fields but I have learnt a lot mostly about myself. I realized that I am capable of doing things I have never done before, that I can overcome my own shadow and leave the worries behind... I needed to prove myself (and probably others) that I can do this and that I can conquer my personal limitations and that was my permanent engine.

I cannot even remember the first six months here ... it was a constant nuthouse. Trying to integrate into this bustle of Dubai life and focusing on work I didn´t even have time to look around so I was just technically taking no notice of the fact, that I am in Dubai - a place quite worth to be discovered (if you know what to look for). So I adopted a feeling that there is nothing to do, nowhere to go ... probably just because I was too tired or too lazy to look for it. So I was sort of postponing everything to some mythical time somewhere in the future...when there will be less stress, more options, better conditions, more friends, nicer weather, cooler water in the sea ...

It took me some time to realize that the time is NOW. That all these little delights can be found within every day.... suprise, surprise...even in Dubai:) So looking back to the past, and having a chance to do so, I would probably change some aspects of my life here. Sitting on the sofa in our vila some ideas have already crossed my mind. Here we go:

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  I would definitely more enjoy all the weekends here
  
  
  
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  I would start off road driving much more earlier and spend more time in desert
  
  
  
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  I would wake up early in the morning and go to the beach ...for a walk...for a coffee...
  
  
  
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  I would probably enroll that kayaking course :)
  
  
  
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  I would definitely take more pictures than I did
  
  
  
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  I would finish my advanced level diving...and actually go diving:)
  
  
  
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  I would quit bitchin´that there is nothing to do
  
  
  
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  I would start learning Arabic
  
  
  
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  I would cross the borders of UAE and look what is behind :)
  
  
  
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  I would ....ehm... I just keep this one for myself
  
  
  

....I would jump from every mountain, I would sail the seven seas, I would fly up in the sky.... (if God was me) ...as the lyrics goes in one of my favourite songs:)

So, here I am, six more days to go and in front of another challenge. I don´t know precisely where it takes me or where not but the first step, to leave Dubai, has been taken already. And as Martin Luther King said: "You don´t need to see the whole staircase to take the first step".

I would stop here since I need to go and find out which one of the above mentioned ignored things I can accomplish in six days:) But I´ll be back.....