Well I'm here...

It's been a tumultuous first couple of days since I landed. Getting in to Doha was easy. In fact getting to everything has been easy. Everyone's taken very good care of me. The flight in was pretty much awesome. The seats reclined all the way back so you could actually lay down and sleep. I took advantage of this. I also talked to the person next to me a little. He was a president of some semiconductor company in India. As a sidenote Bollywood movies are very strange watching with subtitles and without being able to hear it(not sure it would be easier if I could hear it).

Basically since yesterday morning I've been home for about 15 minutes. I went to work on Thursday morning and went through a 12 hour day there and then turned around and came back to get ready for a party they were throwing... Some sort of annual thing. It was fun. I met a guy about my age from England named Matt who is pretty cool. He keeps telling me how boring American Football is and how much better Rugby and Soccer are. I'll convert him in time(hopefully). Honestly though everyone I've met or talked to has been very friendly and interesting. It's a very diverse group out here. I cant even keep track of the number of nationalities... The party was right on the Gulf Me and Matt stayed up talking about stuff and swam out past a small jetty to watch the sunrise... It was pretty much amazing. So far the craziest food I've had was some kind of spicy Filipino chicken. It didn't bring tears to the eyes but it was very strong. Good stuff.

The villa I'm staying in is pretty cool. It's got about 7 people in it and my roommates are friendly. They're definitely a group of troublemakers though, I can already tell.

Hopefully I'll get some pictures up soon(wish I'd had my camera at the party). I miss you all and will keep this updated as often as I can.

JR