This morning the breakfast room was full of American college kids. It turns out the tourists I saw last night are part of Boston college's chorus group and they're here for 3 weeks on a music cultural exchange with Kuwaiti students. They just arrived a couple of days ago so for once the hotel is going to be lively. It was pretty funny today watching the Arab businessmen checking out the girls in their tank tops and skirts. The breakfast staff actually seemed relieved to see me as someone they could deal with and the guy remembered I like cream with my coffee. That doesn't seem like much but try getting milk, cream, or even refills from them like normal and you'd be surprised too.

Yesterday was election day. More on that later as I talk to people about it and we learn the results. Let's go to the usual:

Egyptians fall
Two Egyptian workers sustained injuries in a fall. The two were reportedly working on a building under construction when they lost their balance.

Transvestite arrested
Detectives arrested a transvestite. They were patrolling when they noticed the man wearing a woman's outfit and walking with a feminine gait.

One Pakistani was arrested with hash, a drunken Bedouin was arrested, the usual violence, and taking the abduction and murder of women to a new level the burnt corpse of an Asian woman was found in the desert. The kidnappings, rape, and murder of Asian women is on the rise in Kuwait. Three other Asian women were detained after being found as runaways from their sponsors. One of the proposed government ideas is to end the sponsorship employment where the employer takes the passport of the workers and literally has the right to hold the workers as slaves. The Philippines has banned their citizens from working as maids or nannies in Kuwait because so many of them are abused by the employer and his family.

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