The Amazing Race

This week's show was pretty good even though they were still in Dubai. I thought it was funny that the Globe Trotter couldn't figure out how to read the watch - he was the only one who couldn't. The gold challenge was pretty dumb - I wouldn't have been able to do it with or without a calculator. I liked how most of the women did nothing but complain while the guys put the smoking things together.

I would have been furious if I was Mika's partner, Canaan, and she wouldn't go down the water slide. I saw Canaan try and push her down, but I think I would have given her a little kick in the back. It would have been better to listen to her complain about the kick at the bottom of the slide than fight with her to go down in the first place. She gave up in such an easy challenge - she could have just shut her eyes and gone down. It's not like she had to jump off a building or anything like that. Mika and Canaan are "newly dating" but I'm sure since Mika was acting like a little baby and gave up they are no longer going out. They were kicked out and I hope Canaan was smart enough to leave Mika in the Middle East where they treat woman not as 2nd class citizens, but as third class citizens (the first class are the Arabic men, the 2nd class are the Indian and Pakistani male workers and the third class citizens are all the women.) I have been to several countries in the Middle East - including the so-called "modern" ones and have seen first-hand how they treat women and there is no doubt that they are 3rd class citizens.

Next week it seems they get out of the Middle East and go to a new region. Hope the brothers or the father/son team pick up speed.