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My sister lives in Dubai. She loves OSC too, but doesn't come to hatrack though. I can e-mail her and see if she'd like to meet you during your visit.
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Hey, quid, I was actually hoping to be in your neck of the woods around Nov. 18--I got a paper accepted at a conference in Kolkata, but I wasn't able to scrounge up the funding to get there.
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Cool you got your paper accepted - what on, if I may be bold enough to ask? Sorry you didn't get the funding.
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It was a conference on food and literature, and my paper was on food as a transformative element--food and metamorphosis, basically--in world lit. (e.g., Ovid, Su Tong, Perrault).
I was able to get some funding, but not enough to cover the hefty Chicago-Kolkata flight, dang it.
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Huh. That sounds interesting. Sorry it didn't work out for you to go. I haven't been to India, either, and dang it, but Fahim's already been and doesn't want to go again, and I really want to go, but not without him...
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And as an update, it looks like we're actually going. Fahim and his parents got their visas on Sunday (I don't need one, me travelling on a Canadian passport and all).
BUT. We don't have our airline tickets yet. The travel agency people aren't too bright by my estimation and even though we're supposed to fly in 12+ hours (we actually don't know when our flight leaves as they haven't told us), they're still not ready for us to pick up. Sometime this morning, they say. Um...
And to make things more adventurous, we're flying into Sharjah and then taking a bus or something to Dubai itself.
We're almost going! We're almost going!
And assuming we go, we'll be gone for three days. No internet, but I probably won't care cuz, well, heck, I'm on vacation! Yay!!!!! And hopefully playing with a brand new digital SLR camera! Maybe!
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But the whole thing is rather sad... The travel agent said they couldn't print up the tickets themselves, but Air Arabia had to print them out, and a staff person from the travel agent had to go pick them up. And they told us the tickets would be at the travel agent's by 11am. We got there at 11am, but the tickets didn't arrive until 12:07pm.
And that's when we discover that the tickets are actually e-tickets. And were printed from the Air Arabia web site. Uh huh. Yeah, that's why we had to go to the travel agent and why we had to wait over an hour for the "tickets".
BUT we have them. And we leave at 5 something am.
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Fahim and his parents got their visas on Sunday (I don't need one, me travelling on a Canadian passport and all). ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Uh huh. Yeah, that's why we had to go to the travel agent and why we had to wait over an hour for the "tickets".
