Are you......a Ginger??

Yes everyone that is a real question I got asked the other night in the club. This big Omani guy asked me that. I was kind of shocked, I mean I've never been asked that before. For those who don't know "ginger" is kind of like a demeaning word for a redhead. Well I answered "yeah I'm like half a ginger," then he said "well what's the other half?" I said, "non-ginger." He just laughed and then continued to explain that he'd never met a real life ginger before. It was so weird, that's definitely something I'll probably always remember. So there's another event to add to the list of memories.
Besides that excitement everything else is going smoothly. Last week the club was kind of slow, but we did have a pretty good Thursday night. Friday was also really crowded but it was full of drunk British Navy guys and they hardly paid attention to us so it wasn't really the good kind of crowded. This week we were supposed to be having a Beach Party at the club on Wednesday but the Sultan of Oman just decided that Tuesday night and Wednesday are going to be a national holiday so they moved the party to next week. But the good news is that we get Tuesday night off, but they might make us work Saturday to make up for it so it's not really that great. But we'll see what happens.
Now I just want to take the time to talk about something funny I've noticed since being here. I don't know if I've mentioned it before or not but here it is. So in the gym here they have trainers that you can work with just like most gyms but these guys seriously have no clue what they are doing. I watched one of the trainers teaching this lady how to use one of the machines and he was having her sit down on it backwards. I wanted to go over and help but I think it would have embarrassed him. This particular trainer even has his own show on TV. They play it on the TVs at the gym sometimes and the show is a joke. He's speaking Arabic so I can't really understand what he's saying, but the moves he does are ridiculous. Andrea, our keyboard player, was talking to the guy one day and asked him how he learned how to train people, guess what his answer was? He said, "my friend showed me a website that teaches you what to do." Really? A Website. Wow. It's definitely not like the US where you have to have a certification, which is kind of scary because then anyone can become a trainer and could seriously injure somebody. I feel like I should hold a masterclass or something and just teach these guys a few things before I leave! Well I think that's about it, I hope you all have a great Monday. This is the Ginger, signing out.