Well I'm sorry it's been so long, but I have no excuse but my own laziness. Actually quite a lot has happened in the past few weeks, so I'll start with the biggest doozie of all. As many of you already know I was actually employed here in Qatar for a very short period of time. For approximately one week I was the employee of a British school for Arabic children. My position was to teach English to grades 1 and 2. I'm not lying, they actually hired me to do s...

Wow, it's only been two weeks since we landed in Qatar and so much is happening. We haven't really had much time yet to explore the country, but that will come in time. Right now we're busy getting to know the city and our neighborhood along with all our new neighbors. It's nice to finally have some pleasant neighbors after all. The couple next to us are great. The husband is in a similar position to myself, he's looking hard for a job before he bores himsel...

Well I don't know if I can really call it normality yet, but we are starting to settle in. Aside from a few minor bumps along the way, I think we got away with everything pretty easily. The flight from Montreal to Jordan was less than pleasant, but that was at no fault to the airline. I was just lucky enough to be place next to two little demons, who managed to break their seats within the first hour of the flight. However; that's over now and we are in Doha,...