Hello folks. Long time no talk… again. I’ve just been lazy about blogging.
Tonight is our last night in the Hotel Rotana. We FINALLY got our keys for the apartment – the nice one – with 2 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths. We moved some stuff over today from the old apartment and the hotel, and we’ll finish moving the rest tomorrow by 5pm when we have to check out. We also have a maid coming over tomorrow morning to clean the place. It needs a full cleaning. Its not digusting, but its very dusty the the floors are a little grimy from all the construction. I’m not complaining though – it is 1000% better than the old apartment. We won’t have internet regularly for about a month though. We’re buying a little thing that you plug in and can get wifi or something, but we can only use it a few times a week. So I’ll be around, just not as much.
Its been a very productive few weeks for my “job” at House of the Arts. I have been working with the youth choir for an upcoming production at one of the big malls. They will be performing tomorrow night! We won’t be doing much, but a few of the things we’re doing are pretty neat. And… I’ll be teaching 2 drama classes every Wednesday. The group that was coming from Dubai every week didn’t want to do it anymore, so they asked me to do it. I got thrown in the two classes today on short notice. The first class is a small group of 4 to 7 year olds. The second is a larger group of 8 to 12 year olds. I basically just did some intro work with them today, some icebreakers and mime stuff. It was pretty fun. I’ll be putting together some more lesson plans and hopefully doing some drama performances with the older group around Christmas and the spring. The House has also hooked me up with a adult drama group here in Al Ain. I’ll be going to one of their meetings sometimes soon and see what I can do with them. I don’t want to do TOO much, because my whole reason for coming here was to be able to spend more time with Alanna and Logan. But I do want to have something to do once a week or so!
I’ll be doing another border run this weekend. Logan and I once again have to get new visas. Our friend Brock is going to take us again though so it won’t be much of a hassle. Hopefully we’ll get our residence visas soon so we won’t have to make another run.
Anyone watching TV over there? We’ve been downloading episodes from the web. We’re watching Heroes, which has been ok so far. I of course am still watching Smallville. And we’ve both been watching new show Flash Foward. It seems pretty cool so far. Oh, our cable TV will be hooked up by Monday I hope. And with the package I’m getting, I’ll be able to watch some NFL games on Sundays and most of the MLB playoffs! That is REALLY GOOD NEWS.
I’ll post some pics of the new place soon. The living room is so huge. I could put a slip -n- slide in there!
