Off roading in KuwaitWe had a member of the BMET team get a red cross message. If you known what that means, it means a free ticket home. Unfortunately, that is not the way anyone would like to go home because that also means that there was a death of a close relative. One less person for us, but we can handle it.
I went to a cultural relations class yesterday. I learned a lot about the middle eastern world and their culture. It is a lot different from our culture. Here, it is okay for guys to hold hands and kiss each other. Ick, to us that is super gay. It is also okay to marry more than one wife, but in the Islam religion, if you have sex with one, you much have sex with both (not at the same time) and also they must have exactly the same thing. If you buy one a Mercades the other must have the same car. Fair and equal treatment for both with can be very expensive which most people don't marry more than one person. It would be extremely difficult to please both wives at the same time I was told by one Islamic person. People from other countries cannot purchase land or a house here. They must rent, no matter how much money you got. That is the law. To do business here, you must partner with a natural born Kuwaiti. You can't just be born here to be a Kuwaiti, the family must have lived in Kuwait for generations. I am told that divorce is allowed, however the woman must wait 4 or 5 months to remarry just in case she was pregnant to eliminate any doubt who the baby's family name must go to. Islamic women in Kuwait have the freedom to wear whatever they want, some will wear clothing that covers their whole body but eyes and hands and some will wear western style clothing. To cover up more of the body is to be more conservative. It is very interesting and I am always learning more and more about this place. I just know what there is proof that women here, drive worse than men! Because most of their face is covered!
Unni from Philips Medical troubleshooting the CT Scanner
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