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Girl’s Night Out
Posted on 28/12/2012
Just had to relay a funny incident that happened last night on a girl’s night out. Six lovely girlies went out to dinner at Trader Vics restaurant in the Intercontinental Hotel,...
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Credit Card Fraud
Posted on 08/11/2012
Just a short story about something that happened to me last week at the supermarket. I had just bought around 100 Omani Riyals worth of shopping (Thats around 150GBP). I handed in my card...
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Tuna Sandwiches
Posted on 27/10/2011
Last week I asked the maid (everyone has a maid in the Middle East) to make me a tuna sandwich for my packed lunch. I asked her to mix the tuna with a little mayonnaise and a little...
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The School Run
Posted on 31/05/2011
I was teaching a Year 2 class (Age 6 &7) and for some reason, which evades me now, the main gates to the school were closed. Therefore, we had to escort the children to the back gates...
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Dubai – A City of Success or A Cultural Disaster
Posted on 11/05/2011
The story of Dubai is one of the greatest success stories of our time. It is hard to imagine anywhere else in the world that has developed at such a pace, in such a short time, for so many...
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Mannequins
Posted on 01/05/2011
On a recent trip I found myself overnight in Doha, Qatar. After living 10 years in Doha from 1998, spending time there was really not in my plans for my well-earned holiday. Anyway, I...
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Role Play: What am I?
Posted on 11/04/2011
I was teaching Drama to a class of 6 year olds in Doha, Qatar. We were having a lot of fun with mime and role-playing professions. The final activity was to think of an...
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Hanky Panky
Posted on 07/04/2011
I was working in an Oil Field school in Qatar just outside of Doha. My husband and I were having trouble conceiving a child so I was taking regular visits to the clinic to see the...
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Is Drowning Popular?
Posted on 01/04/2011
Today I’ve been on a family day out to a beautiful wadi with fresh water pools and it was divine. ( To those who are not familiar with the term a wadi is a dry river bed.) The...
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A Fine Wine
Posted on 26/03/2011
I had taken up my first teaching post in Fujairah, UAE in the Middle East. It was a very conservative place with only 50 expats and as teachers we were told to stay away from ANYTHING...
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