An Island That's a Country

Let's fast-forward six years from yesterday's photo when I'd just arrived in Bahrain. In the interim, I had spent a year and a half at grad school, two years teaching in Taif, Saudi Arabia, six months in the US, and a year working for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Soon after landing on the island, we rented an apartment in the building in Adliya, Bahrain.


In Bahrain, I had to pay rent on my own. We stayed approximately six months at this address before moving to an enclosed housing compound farther away from the capital of Manama. All in all, we stayed in three different places when working for the Bahrain Defence Force. I taught Bahraini Air Force cadets from January 1989 to August 1991.