The Cat's  Dead and We're  Off to Kuwait
                        Living in and Loving Kuwait

     
      We talked of teaching overseas before the cat died, but couldn't bring
      ourselves to leave the cat with others or get rid of it. Then, in the dark early hour of the morning we heard a scream! It sounded like "help" "help". We  leaped out of bed and ran to the living room only to find that the cat had had a heart attack! Despite attempted mouth to cat resuscitation, it was too late. Yorker was gone! That was when we too, decided to be gone (not like the cat), but to reach for that dream, to travel and teach in an exotic overseas place, in just the right kind of school. That is how we ended up in Kuwait. Well, not exactly that simple, there was the fact we had to find that just right school first.

      With no experience at overseas job hunting, we took to the internet and discovered a whole new world out there. There were job fairs and placement agencies and all sorts of sites on overseas jobs. After finding an extensive list of overseas schools and email addresses, we started to spam the sources to see if anyone was interested in hiring an energetic, dynamic, teaching team! After sending inquiry letters to schools from Abu Dhabi to Shanghai we sat back to wait. (Well not exactly did we  idly wait--- we did register with a placement service and sign up for a job fair.)
      We sent inquiries to dozens of schools. We were selective, however. We wanted warm, we wanted creature comforts (no backwoods village without running water) and we wanted safe. Out of the dozens of emails we sent, we did get back a job offer from Yap island in the Pacific.  It was warm, it was safe (we think) but it did seem a little off the beaten track.  Then, when we had about given up, we received an email from Kuwait!  It seemed that a small private school, called Fawzia Sultan International School was going to expand and add a High School component to the school.  Our  reaction was " Oh **** they want us in Kuwait!"  Well, it was warm! (120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer), it is modern, however on the "safe" part we wondered about Saddam next door!  
               We traveled to Philadelphia to interview, and be interviewed by the Director of the school.  After a long conversation, and his assurances that the Gulf States are safer than Philadelphia (after looking at some of the areas there we did concur) we decided to sign on the dotted line and enter the world of overseas teaching! We did have some other prospects at the job fair in Philadelphia, but decided that we could use the excitement and an exotic opportunity in a place that presented a great opportunity to explore parts of the world we had never  considered before.  At least for a year!

           We stayed for four years.  Our school, Fawzia Sultan International School, was for smart kids with learning difficulties. We started with a class of freshmen and after working with them until they graduated and were off to college, we too decided to "Graduate"! We retired to our home in Spokane, Washington to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Our web site shares some of our travels with those of you who are interested.

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      Links to Life in Kuwait
        Our surroundings     George and Di      Strolling on the Gulf walkway   
              Eating out in Kuwait turkish cafe                       Shopping   mall   
              Camel Races            camels                           Houses houses   
              Desert Camping       camels          Arab Architecture arab fund         
    • Places we have visited since coming to Kuwait

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         A Visit to Egypt         king tut       A Visit to Australia       australia    
               A Visit to Singapore hotel    A Visit to Mykonos         cafe        
                  A Visit to Oman      diwanA Visit to Malaysia           towers
                                      
                A Visit to Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi A Visit to the Iraq Borderbombed dish


                      A Visit to Fahaheel Big Mac A Visit to Our Neighborhood abayya ladies

                        A Visit to Tenerife   tiede New Year's in Madrid          bear

                        A Visit to Sri Lanka buddha A Visit to Dubai                     gold souk                                  
                        A Visit to Thailand   temple A Visit to Bahrain                  sculpture

    Note! The following pages contain lots of pictures so will take a long time to load!

    The Cosmos Grand Tour of Europe: Summer of 2001
    A Visit to England_________  A Visit to the Low Countries      

    A Visit to Germany                    A   Visit to the Czech Republic          A Visit to Austria___     _straussA Visit to Italy(Venice & Rome)venice Italy(Rome to Riviera)         _venice A   Visit to Spain:Barcelona       

    A Visit to Spain:Madrid et al     Visit To France:Spain to Paris

    A Visit to France: Paris           

    AVisit to Turkey:

    A Visit to Istanbul__________A Visit to Antalya_____

     

     

    A Visit to Kenya    _________ colorfull clothesA Visit to India__    _________  colorfull clothes

    AVisit to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico:

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    AVisit to China

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    AVisit to Costa Rica

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      Email us if you have questions.  The Fawzia Sultan Website is:  http://www.fsis.edu.kw  Our email is  "kuwait at geodi.org".  Note that I have not included the "@" because I then get lots of unsolicited spam. You must insert it if you email us. Also leave out the quotation marks.