Quick Update

We're taking a break from our regularly scheduled broadcast of Canada updates to give you some UAE updates.

First off, in one week we are going to the Maldives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See, the end of Ramadan is marked with a celebration called Eid, and we have 5 whole days to run down to the nearest beachy paradise and go scuba diving with hammerheads. Yay!

Ramadan has brought its fair share of boredom -- all the stores are closed during the day, or open at strange hours (like, the post office is open from 9-11am and 9-11pm. How convenient!) Well, that and the heat that is still ever present. Sure, I'm going to work every day (sometimes rather begrudgingly, as there are no teachers or students at school yet, and the whole building is being simultaneously demolished and rebuilt and rewired and repainted....), but long afternoons and evenings have prompted me to finally apply to do my MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language teaching through the online programme at the University of Nottingham. If I get accepted, I will start in January, at the same time as Ty starts his CELTA.

So, yeah, by this time next year, we'll both be smarter than we are now.

In other news, we got more furniture in the living room, so it's looking more like a real house and we're finally going ahead and painting our bedroom. We wanted a greeny sage kind of colour, and have ended up with avocado. It's still quite nice, and we will post photos once we get the furniture in and hang pictures and such.