Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever is starting. This last week of Eid Al-Fitr is a corker because everyone is still gone around here for the Ramadan break, my Bridge group and Fellowship group are not meeting this week and I find that the walls are starting to really close in on me. My mate doesn't get this Fever like I do, but he is nice to cater to my whims of going for rides just to get out. I just joined up with the Fellowship group over in ARAMCO a couple of weeks ago just to have something to get out to and interact with other women. Fellowship is the acceptable word over here for Bible Study. I was involved in this nine years ago as a newbie here in Saudi. I lasted about a year until I had built up relationships and friendships with women on my own compound. Now the atmosphere on my compound is so different. The majority of my friends are gone and the few others I know here have crawled into their homes and shut themselves away so tightly that they have become unreachable. It is time for them to leave as well. I know some of this behavior has to do with the Ramadan time of year and the extreme heat. When it cools off more we will all come out more and I will probably go back to taking the shopping buses to town more around February and March. The American Women's Group is still active and their once a month activities will still be going. Such a small group of women now from nine years ago. I have a real strong sense that currently all the women I know are working so hard to not have their life totally sucked out of them over here in Saudi. We are all older, there are less Americans over here and the oppression is being felt on the once very open compound of ARAMCO. Now that it is becoming more Saudized over there as well, I find more women there are feeling the pinch. I also know that the older women here, as we all have more grandchildren in the States and our own children are getting older, we all want OUT! So, the good part is that I am not alone in how I feel and it is really time for us to be leaving. It won't be long.
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