I’m pretty much one of the coolest guys on camp because I have a car. I have been driving new arrivers to the mall, to Arabic class, to the grocery store, to Bahrain and out to eat. None of them are American. All are single guys waiting for their families to arrive in the near future. Hetain is from London. Gustav is from South Africa. Vytas is from Lithuania, Harish is from India, Ian is from Scotland. We all live in the same building which is designated for families with up to 2 kids. Bachelor men live in another section of camp. Single woman live in another section.
I’m also a food connoisseur and expert on restaurants. The group above all went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner. I drove. Cheesecake Factory is in a brand new restaurant complex in Khobar on the ocean. It is modern and on par with what you would find in the United States. It is super popular because there is no other place that even comes close. None of the guys had ever been to Cheesecake Factory. There was an hour wait for the factory so we decided to see if we could get into another restaurant. The guys had never heard of the other restaurants so I had to explain the menus for PF Chang’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Texas Roadhouse. We ended up at Cheesecake Factory for over 2 hours talking about backgrounds and we ended up in Saudi Arabia.
A-salamu Aleykum
Matthew of Arabia 