It was quite an interesting week- I got to participate in the school's "week without walls" program. Regular classes are stopped for the week and students have a chance to do something a little different. Trips went to France, Switzerland, Vietnam,... and Qatar. I got to lead one of the local trips that was meant to study the environment of Qatar- an interesting topic but when the temperature was starting to hit 105- a bit nervewracking planning activities outside. I had a great group of teachers helping and in the end didn't lose a single kid! We wrapped the week up with an international track and field event and a trip to the beach to look for dugong bones- a little bit of everything.
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| Isom the Oryx |
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| Cute- in a strange odd ugly sort of way. |
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| and on day 3 of the trip I got crabs! |
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| we went to the vegetable farm to stalk the wild cucumber and tomato |
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| Doha skyline from a boat |
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| Doha skyline from the 54th floor |
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| If you look real close there is a pole vaulter in there somewhere |
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| Women's 800 meters- Lots of fast Kenyans and Ethiopans |
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| Pamela Jelimo on her victory lap- she won the 2008 olympics 1500meters- from Kenya. She was so fast that even walking past Luca and Wilder I couldn't get her into focus. |
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| We drove out to a new beach- had to stop when this was the view ahead of us... |
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| and this was the view behind us. |
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| and here was the temperature- sure don't want to break down. |
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| We came to this beach because we were told by Wilder's teacher that she had found dolphin, sea tutrtle, and dugong skulls washed ashore. Sadly a whole mess of trash was all we found- clean beaches aren't as valued in this neck of the globe. (we did find a few dugong ribs- enough to make the kids (Wilder, Luca, Innes) happy.) |
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| Once we waded out past the debris we did find a sweet little stretch of sand with clear persian gulf waters to swim in- If you squint you can see one of the islands of Bahrain off Lisa's right shoulder. |
