For a country free of pork products, they sure take their swine flu seriously...

Well the good news just keep getting better. We were supposed to finally start teaching on September 27th, but school is canceled for another week! Nation wide in Qatar schools have been canceled due to the H1N1 until October 4th. The school is still torturing us by requiring meetings all week from 8-3pm. Let's just hope school does not get further delayed like it is in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

To add to the craziness of this country, all 5 of us Americans had to go to the Medical Center to get our tests done. This was a yet another very disorganized place that was also very disgusting. The worst part was the wads of cotton balls all over the floor that were ripped off by people who just got their blood drawn. GROSS!


This is a picture of my roommate, Summer, at the waiting area with all the cotton balls!

Despite all of this there is some good news: the pool at our villa finally is full of water! We LOVE THAT!


(I have to give props to Ryan Simonet for the line in the title!! He rocks!)