The rest of the trip.

My last post i wrote on the plane and posted a month later as im completely useless at the whole writing posts thing. I will keep going but i wanted to do a follow up to that post about the rest of the trip out there.
So on the first morning after landing i woke up unintentilly early so got myself ready and wanted to go and explore and thought the first place to see would be the grand mosque. I had a little look up about it and couldnt quite figure out when it opened or how the best way to get there was so went downstairs and asked the nice man by the door with the title of concierge. He asked me to follow him and before i knew it i had a cab in front of me and the door opened and i was put in and sent off. After a 20min drive i arrived at this beautiful building known as the grand mosque. This was a stunning and peaceful building that was very white with these lovely inserted tiles of flowers. I was there for quite some time and felt very relaxed after. Once back at the hotel I headed to the beach which was very empty. So from there onto work. We arrived at this school were there was plenty of people to help us set up.
This was how it was for the week, whatever we needed there was plenty of people to assist us in the work. It was great and very welcoming, there was plenty of food provided and it was always very tasty. All the shows we did out there went very well and had some great responses from the children, carers and teachers they took the show into there own. We was in two schools, first being in Abu Dhabi and the second in Al Ain which is part of the state of Abu Dhabi and about an hour and a half drive from the main city.
Im not really talking about the work this time but about the trip. A couple of interesting things happened in Al Ain.
First off when arriving in the hotel we very quickly picked up and the difference of treatment between men and women but not how you expect. The only female of the group had the room that looked over the swimming pool, it had fruit bowl and chocolate dipped strawberries, the men had the view that looked over the carpark and no extra's.
The second story from the hotel was that one night due to calling back to the UK and the time difference was that i tried to stay awake till midnight, unfortunately i drifted off for a little. I awoke and im not quite sure why what made me wake up but i woke up and turn round to see a man standing in my room.
Now this would be a perfect cliff hanger point if it was the end of a HBO episode or a chapter in a book but alas it is a blog. It took me about ten seconds to realise what was going on in my head i was coming back into focus the brain was waking up and going, right this is a hotel room, yes there is a man standing in the room, this is not normal, he is wearing a hotel uniform, no he does not look like he is going to hurt me. After that 10 seconds I then screamed and jumped out the bed. He asked if i rung reception to ask for slippers and bath soap, which i had not. Once talking about this with him i shook his hand and sent him off, I never complained because if i had this guy would of been sacked and sent back to India and i could not have done that to someone.
We was also very lucky to be taken on safari. A landrover turned up and took us out to the desert. We drove for about forty minuets before we turned off took the air out of the tyres and started dune bashing. We drove for a while before stopping to have a stroke of some camels and of course photo opportunity then a little more driving before arriving at a camp for food and entertainment. It was great there as we went sand boarding and quad biking through the desert.
The trip broke all my expectations of the country and they are a very friendly and kind city. The work was fantastic and overall was a great experience.