The United Arab Emirates is a federation, or group of 7 state-like smaller governments that bind together for certain things but still have their own individual governments/supreme courts etc.
November-March seem to be the spring-like temperatures, around 70*-80* and then April-October are scorching 100+ temperatures. Since Ben will get there in January, he will get to experience some of the nicer temperatures.
Something Ben's been interested in since we left Guatemala to have the baby in Texas, besides learning Arabic, is the selection of fruits available in Abu Dhabi; he really misses the variety. He asked some of the teachers who are already there and this was their response:
"apples
pears
strawberries
oranges
lychee
breadfruit
durian
bananas
blueberries
raspberries
dragon fruit
kiwi
strawberries
watermelon
cantaloupe
honeydew
prickly pears
mangosteen
rhabutans
papaya
mango
guava
lemon grass
...and about twenty fruits I have no idea what they are called. The main thing that is hard to find is berries, so I stock up on frozen when I'm in the city."
And, yes, he was very excited to hear this!
I expect to learn a lot of new things about this part of the world and plan to blog about it as I go.
Wow, how exciting! Learning Arabic is something I would love to do at some point, myself. And what a great experience for the kids . . . they will be true world citizens.
ReplyDeletevery cool, should be quite an adventure!
ReplyDeleteBack reading some of your posts today! LOL :) That is alot of different fruits! I'd be excited too although I don't eat much fruit at the moment because of my sugar but I am getting it under control and will put more fruits in my diet soon! I've not heard of 3 of those.
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