despite the title of this post i have not jumped in the pool here at the palace yet; and doubt i will before i head out in march. when i took this job i remember my boss saying something along the lines of "hell freezes over," so i knew it would get colder here than my western mind could imagine the desert to be like. this morning i learned that iraq is having one of the colder winters of recent history.
now colder to someone in iraq is a high around 50 degrees and lows in the 30s so those of you in the northern u.s. may see that as resort temperatures but it really is cold i swear. for example our trailers have shared bathrooms and when the rooms are heated (by a noisy window unit) the common space or bathrooms are not. you can move pretty quickly in the morning when you are shivering! of course it beats having to leave the trailer and walk to the shower.
just monday about 50 or so people (mostly military who had not been out partying the night before) took the polar plunge in the palace pool. brave souls. yes it looks inviting and refreshing but when we put the pool in context with the weather things change.
while this post is fairly meaningless the one thing we should take away from it is that iraq is not hot year round and winter nights and mornings can be pretty cold. so when planning travel to iraq i suggest mid spring...
3 comments:
Take the plunge bro, you know you want to! Where is your sense of adventure?
my sense of adventure was sleeping in...
plenty of adventure to come I promise.
Awesome. People out partying the night before, eh? Just as America's birth of democracy owes a good deal to the taking of libations, the same holds true today, even in Iraq! Seriously I'm glad people are able to find some time to relax, even if it is over a coke, or a virgin daiquiri. But wait, that does bring up a question, are the iraqi people able to buy alcohol freely yet? or is it still a dry country? About the post below, I was wondering and hoping you might've been there in the room, wait a second, I think the guy on the left side of the tv screen, with the black ski mask on, are you sure that wasn't you? he kinda looked familiar to me.
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