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Category: UAE

  • Living at the American University of Sharjah

    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…

  • Shopping

    So we moved into our “fully furnished” townhouse and I instantly had an itch.  Our walls and floors are bare and where are my photos?  They’re in a box, in the attic on my parents property in Northern British Columbia.  I need to go shopping and put something on these walls! The goal is to…

  • Just Keep Swimming

    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

    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…

  • The first 2 days!

    If you read my dad’s post, you will remember that we left Canada on a grand adventure! It’s really neat here. When my parents, siblings and I arrived we thought it was unbelievably hot! Turns out it was just the hottest day of the summer, so now it’s not as hot as I thought it…