First week comes to and end
Thursday, 22. June 2006, 15:45:08
Life in Doha during the first week has been great. It doesn’t feel like I’m here to work, it feels like I’m on holiday. More so, it feels like I’m on a contiki holiday because of the multi cultural group of people I have been spending time with.
In the evenings we step outside our hotel room into 30-degree warmth, a nice warmth by the way, and make our way to the nearest restaurant. Last night was Persian cuisine. This place knows how to provide value for money. We ordered our mains but we didn’t expect them to deliver unlimited amounts of traditional bread and a variety of dips for free. When you eat in Doha, rarely do you leave your plate empty. They serve heaps of food!
Still on food, they are more creative. Take for example Nandos. Have you ever had this at Nandos?
Qataris are masters at preparing meat. Succulent and marinated, I think that’s all I’ve eaten this week.
The 4 x Italian girls in our group are emerging from their shells and have provided great value to the group this week. Here are the Italians..
Miriam & Nicoletta…
Elenora & Enrica …
We’re all learning some Italian from the Italians and in return we help them brush up on their English – a great arrangement I must say.
Thursday (today) was our first day in the office where we got to meet our department heads, meet our colleagues and begin reading thousands of pages of the operation manual.
I’ve been allocated a shared office at the headquarters. It is only temporary, as we are relocating to the Athlete’s Village in a few weeks. Now this is a major concern for us as the Village is still under construction. You can see the Village from our office window. I’ve taken this picture today…
Scary stuff. Well that picture is only one side of the Village. Even so, there’s still a lot of construction work to do. The whole city is under construction. Everywhere you look you see incomplete structures, cranes, road works and labourers. The population of Qatar is 600,000 but there are 2 million foreign workers here. Many of those are in construction getting this city ready for the games in December.
Oh, I found out why no one swims in the beach here. Take a look…
Take a closer look…
Bloody Jelly Fish!!!
Tonight at 10pm is the big game between Australia and Croatia. Most are going to an Australian and British bar called Garvey’s, which is 20 minutes from my hotel. I may not join them this time as we have a bar in our Hotel and it makes more sense to me to watch the game there.
If you want to me to take photos of something in Qatar or would like info on something just email me at jspezza@hotmail.com
I’ll update in a few days.
Ciao for now.
Jesse.
In the evenings we step outside our hotel room into 30-degree warmth, a nice warmth by the way, and make our way to the nearest restaurant. Last night was Persian cuisine. This place knows how to provide value for money. We ordered our mains but we didn’t expect them to deliver unlimited amounts of traditional bread and a variety of dips for free. When you eat in Doha, rarely do you leave your plate empty. They serve heaps of food!
Still on food, they are more creative. Take for example Nandos. Have you ever had this at Nandos?
Qataris are masters at preparing meat. Succulent and marinated, I think that’s all I’ve eaten this week.
The 4 x Italian girls in our group are emerging from their shells and have provided great value to the group this week. Here are the Italians..
Miriam & Nicoletta…
Elenora & Enrica …
We’re all learning some Italian from the Italians and in return we help them brush up on their English – a great arrangement I must say.
Thursday (today) was our first day in the office where we got to meet our department heads, meet our colleagues and begin reading thousands of pages of the operation manual.
I’ve been allocated a shared office at the headquarters. It is only temporary, as we are relocating to the Athlete’s Village in a few weeks. Now this is a major concern for us as the Village is still under construction. You can see the Village from our office window. I’ve taken this picture today…
Scary stuff. Well that picture is only one side of the Village. Even so, there’s still a lot of construction work to do. The whole city is under construction. Everywhere you look you see incomplete structures, cranes, road works and labourers. The population of Qatar is 600,000 but there are 2 million foreign workers here. Many of those are in construction getting this city ready for the games in December.
Oh, I found out why no one swims in the beach here. Take a look…
Take a closer look…
Bloody Jelly Fish!!!
Tonight at 10pm is the big game between Australia and Croatia. Most are going to an Australian and British bar called Garvey’s, which is 20 minutes from my hotel. I may not join them this time as we have a bar in our Hotel and it makes more sense to me to watch the game there.
If you want to me to take photos of something in Qatar or would like info on something just email me at jspezza@hotmail.com
I’ll update in a few days.
Ciao for now.
Jesse.
WIDGETIZE