The land of... palms? traffic lights?

I surprised my students the other day. They walked into class and I assigned them a one minute speech on their passion in life.

Due immediately.

One student, who wants to be a civil engineer, came up with this quote on the fly. It has summed what I sometimes feel like is much of my life in Bahrain:

"Bahrain used to be called the 'land of a million palm trees'. Now it is called the 'land of a million traffic lights.' "

May God bless him on his quest.