Have you ever stood in a supermarket line with a years supply of tampons? Ever had to declare your tampons at customs? Or perhaps you've stood in a crowded foreign airport (using a mixture of broken English and sign language) explaining what you do with your tampons and why you're currently carrying hundreds of them? If the answer is yes, chances … [Read more...]
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Hi, my name’s Kirsty and I’m a……………….
January 26, 2011 by
The Qatar Professional Women's Network became desperate, they needed a speaker, and after scraping the bottom of the barrel, up I popped, in a sparkly top with jazz hands, okay so I had a sparkly top, but my jazz hands didn't make an appearance (it was a dry event).It was one of those great Doha nights, a sea of headscarfs, suits, saris and abayas. … [Read more...]
Do you know Elle McPherson?
December 7, 2010 by
Every Australian who has traveled overseas has been asked or told at least one dumb thing about Australia. Do we speak English? Are there really kangaroos hopping down the street? My personal favourite so far "Do you have the internet in Australia"?Canadians still get asked if they live in igloos, Brits are offered tea at breakfast because "we … [Read more...]
For Sophie and Belle
October 11, 2010 by
I was 5 months pregnant when we moved to Jakarta. It was January 2000 and there were still remnants of burnt out buildings from the 1998 riots. When you met people it came up in the conversation early, they wanted to know how long you'd been around. Were you living here in the riots? Everyone had their own evacuation story, where they were, how it … [Read more...]
Bloggers Remorse
June 7, 2010 by
"You should do a reading!" the instructor said. As I walked towards the microphone I thought about my 4 little travelers and G and wondered how they were going at home without me, had they had their dinner yet? Was the house still standing? I looked out at the sea of strangers in front of me and considered making a public apology for the 2 minutes … [Read more...]
I hope you don’t mind me asking?
December 1, 2009 by
After discovering that we can't hire a car while our residents visa's are being processed we decided to try another option to get out and about. Today we hired a car with a driver and hit the town. Our driver was a man of very few words who had moved to Qatar from Sri lanka 2 years ago. He spoke the international language of Cricket but apart from … [Read more...]
