Category: American University of Sharjah

Hi friends and family.  Oh and hi aunty Robyn.  I want to tell you that they call soccer football in the UAE.  My dad signed me up to play football.  There are 2 ginormous soccer fields where we live.  The grass is made of rubber and the dirt is like black plastic seeds.  There is…

At least once a day I have a moment of… lucidity, realism, awareness… where I focus on the fact that I have moved my family to the other side of the planet.  There is plenty of home transplanted here but this is still the Middle East and a culture quite foreign to me.  The weekends…

It is really hot here in the UAE!  The heat never quits.  It feels like you can cook chicken outside.  So I like to go swimming all the time.  There is a pool just down the road from us.  It has a slide that is really fun.  The slide is really steep and has water…

Our new house is totally awesome. We have 5 bathrooms! My dad hates the staircase because it is super long! Luckily, I have my own bedroom:).  Right after I took the video below the shipping company came with the rest of our stuff.  Now my room has way more stuff in it.  It’s really fun…