According to parents, sending me alone to Dubai may result in one or more of the following scenarios:

A) Misha is deposited at Jinnah Int'l by family who stays to watch for an hour and a half after she walks in to make sure she goes to the right counters and safely makes it to the departure lounge. Misha will then make it to the plane and be taken to Dubai. Once the plane lands and passengers get disembark and make their way to the VISA counter, for no reason the people checking the passports and VISAs insist that Misha is a troublemaker and should not be allowed to leave the airport and detain her. Misha, who apparently does not speak and when she does, goes unheard, is detained at the airport and forced to live a Tom Hanks in The Terminal-esque existence in the Dubai Int'l Airport until family members come to Dubai to extract her from the situation.

B) Misha makes it safely to relatives' place in Dubai from the Airport and insists on wandering off right away. Apparently Misha is an idiot who forgets most of her cash at home and is left stranded in the City Centre with no money and no ideas. Relatives do not notice that she is not home for dinner and Misha is stuck at the City Centre to live off artificial plants and discarded souvenier hats.

C) Misha decides to spend all her money on a thoroughly useless impulse buy and returns home only to be ejected from it as soon as she opens up her suitcase and extracts her new "really cool skateboard" and "kickass new lavalamp collection".

D) Misha goes on the desert Safari only to wander off in disgust when the foriegners start mooning over the "gorgeous eyelashes" of the camels and wanders upon an oasis in the desert where she is unable to escape from due to having a very limited Arabic vocabulary, consisting only of "Hazaa!", "al-haraami" and "la".

I suppose all parents suffer from lapses in logic and an overflaring of the imagination when it comes to sending your firstborn off to a foriegn country for the first time.