Hi everyone! I guess you’re wondering what happened to us, because we kind of disappeared off the radar. Apologies for not writing sooner, but we just got lazy. I’m not going to try and sugarcoat it, it’s just plain laziness!!
Anyway, we’re now back in Canada and have been for a few weeks. Our adventure in China is over and it was an amazing one! We have a lifetime of memories from our time there. We met some very interesting people and made some friends and maybe we will even see some of them again.
But now we’re on to our next adventure – our trip to Qatar in the Middle East.Where is Qatar you ask? It’s next door to Dubai, another small oil-rich country in the Persian Gulf. Kathy has secured a position at the Qatar Canadian School for September, and we will be leaving to fly there on August 28th. Kathy’s sister, Rose is working there at a Newfoundland fisheries college (yes, a Newfoundland college in the Middle East), and she loves it there. She was the one who told us about the Canadian school and that they were looking for teachers. She has been an amazing help and support to us doing everything from finding a nice apartment to setting us up with a Newfoundland hairdresser! We are getting very excited about the whole venture and are also looking forward to seeing Rose, whom we haven’t seen in nearly twenty years.
However, before we go to Qatar we have another trip to take – to Newfoundland. The whole family, except for Ling is going to St. John’s at the end of the month to visit family and hopefully see whales and icebergs.
We will be there about two weeks and will put lots of pictures on the blog to show you what a beautiful place Newfoundland is. The grandchildren, Hayden and Dahlia, have never been there so they will be in for a real treat to be able to go down by the ocean and watch the waves break on the beach.
Aw, you should have said something
But I’m glad to hear Kathy got the Qatar job! I hope we’ll be able to meet up in Canada some time – tell me when you go home for vacation