Category: UAE
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…