Here We Are

View from the bus//Ride to work When enough time passes and you fall a bit behind, it seems too overwhelming to recap and go over it all. Today I am finally getting around to writing and I think I will just tell it how it is from where I am sitting right now. Most people that I have talked to from home want to know what it's like , the dress, the culture, school, etc. I think sharing the view from where I sit will answer some of those questions. Drinks at a fancy hotel For starters, we live in a hotel. This Wednesday marks 1 month in Doha! Hard to believe, but tis true. The night we arrived we were told that we would be staying in a hotel until mid-October. Since then, we have heard numerous ideas about when we will actually move into our new place. We shall see. But this is where we live for now.  Our hotel home is nice. Certainly bigger and nicer  than anywhere else we have lived. It is hard to complain when someone comes and empties your trash each day, and c...

I had so many things to share after the first day, that I was certain I would blog immediately. Here I am, on the eve of our first solid week in Doha, and I am forcing myself to jot some things down, mostly for my own memory. I am going to blame the jet lag for the lack of posting previously. I saw plenty of post-worthy things, but have been in a groggy fog since arriving. We left the states on a Tuesday morning, and arrived here on a Wednesday evening, without ever really having slept. I suppose that is why they request that the new teachers arrive August 15th, not August 27th. We started our first full week of orientation on Sunday, the 31st. However, the morning after we arrived we had an 8:30am date at our school, and haven't really stopped since. During the weekend (which is Friday and Saturday here) the school had organized events and trips for us to attend. I am glad we did because that got us out and about seeing things and meeting the other new teachers. However, we certa...