We have been here for a little over a week, but it seems like it has been longer than that. Last Sunday we moved to temporary housing until our houses are ready. We are in a two bedroom apartment.
Our houses are basically ready; we are just waiting for the last couple of things to be completed and the paperwork to go through. We have been out to visit the housing twice. (See picture to the right.) The houses come furnished—but in Qatar that doesn’t just mean couches and a fridge. A furnished house comes with dishes, kitchen supplies, bedding, soap, etc. We may still have to buy a few things—just depending on our preferences. For example, I will probably get a new comforter for our bed. 
The apartments we are in are great, we are just anxious to get settled. The only bad thing about our apartment is that they are building a new apartment complex next door. I think that construction workers work harder than anyone else here. They start just before 6:00 AM (just after the morning call to prayer) and they go until dark. They have two 
big tractors with jack-hammers at the end that are constantly breaking up the ground/rocks. It is driving us INSANE. Jon has started sleeping with earplugs. The apartments are nice, but it is 
obvious that men were the ones to choose the decorations and stock it with supplies. For example, the furniture in our room is sort of designed in “affordable elegance” style, but our bedding looks like it was made for a 10 year old girl. 
We don’t have offices yet either. We went into the main Qatar Foundation offices a few times last week for meetings, but other than that we are working from our apartments. The Qatar Foundation offices are beautiful. I really like the style of the architecture. We are learning to be patient and move at a slower pace here. Everything just takes a little longer. As far as I can tell the only things that move quickly are the cars and construction.
We went to church again yesterday. The ward here is really nice. It is growing so fast. There were two new families this week. They are looking for a new building for us to meet in. Right now there aren’t any open seats in Sacrament meeting.
Sorry this is a boring entry, but not much happened this week. Hopefully we will have some exciting news by next week.
1 comment:
Hi Ems and Jon! We were just wondering how your first month has been? Do you have offices yet? We'd love to hear more from you when you get the time.
Love,
Mel and Family
P.S. Thanks for the B-Day card Ems! You're the best!
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