We probably won't get all that much for the first few days. That jet lag is an absolute bitch and she'll probably be waking up around 2 AM local time, followed by feeling like shit, for about 5 days. So everything will be closed when she's functionally awake.
I can't wait to watch her interact with workers. Kuwait is expensive as fuck for people with a decent income, but the expats working at the food places really open up your perspective (probably not her though).
These people work 6 days a week, god knows what hours, live in crowded and over-stuffed apartments, ride a shuttle to/from work designated by their employer, and send what little extra they have back home. There was even a story a while back about some Kuwaiti Instagram influencer being pissy about the expats even getting one day off. So they are almost always uncomfortably friendly, from a Western prospective, tied with a severe lack of personal space (cultural thing). You'll get these awkward emotions whole waiting at an ATM because they'll repeatedly check their balance, 30 of them at a time, and know they have basically nothing.
Too much sperging about Kuwait, but it's surreal. I've got at least one person over there who is aware of Chantal and I want nothing more than for him to bump into her at the mall.
Kuwaitis themselves CAN be cool, but there's a reason that basically every American can't wait for the oil money to run out so we can watch the absolute shitshow ensue. The streets are just littered with trash and the smell of trash, and it gets worse the further you're out of the "rich downtown area".
(Off topic, but the contrast with Bahrain is unreal. They have no oil money, but the streets were clean when I went. It's also one of the local tourist destinations because alcohol is legal there)
One additional thought I had about how Chantal and Kuwait are comparable outside of being obese. They leave shit lying around after they're done and forget about it. There was a massive and unexpected flood a few years back where they brought in a water pump to siphon the water out of a flooded part of the highway. That piece of equipment was still there at least 2 years later, probably unusable now.
