I went to Doha, Midle east!!!

It was a completely new experience for me. Jo invited me to have fun with her there during GW. We had been apart from each other for only 1 month, but when I found her at the exit of Doha airport, I was so glad to see her again. :)

 

My first impression of Qatar was strange. I looked out of the window when I heard the anoucement in an airplane, and I saw there was nothing but desert! Cities that I saw were so small. I had never seen that kind of view. But in Doha city it was so modern. There were many tall buildings, Japanese cars, nice western and American restrants and foreign people. Jo took me to the sea shore where she liked it. It was nice to see beautiful view listening to the sound of the waves in nice hot weather. She drives to her school seeing this nice view every day. ummm... I envied her.

 

It was so hot there, 42 degrees in the afternoon.! We couldn't walk outside. When I walked around Jo's place by my self while she was working, I gave up just after 5 minites, because it was HOT!! Strange thing was that it was dried, so I didn't get sweat. It was nice, I liked it. But Jo said 50 degrees and 100% humid world would come soon. I can't imagine that, I don't wanna go there in that time. Qatar is a rich country, free education, free medical treatment, and free houses for Qatari people. I didn't know that kind of wonderful country existed in this world. So it is so safe there. Qatar is Islamic, men in white and women in black. It is not allowed to take a picture of Islamic women, so I was carefull to take pictures. When we went to beauty salon I was surprised that Islamic women wore jeans under black clothes. They had brand named bags and scarfs and were pushing buttons of cell phone. It was modern Islamic world. Alcohol is also prohibited there, but foreigners can get it easily at a bar. The bars that we went to were so nice, and one night I met a HOT guy there! He was iterested in me and wanted me to be his girlfriend! But I was leaving there in 3 days! haahaa I missed a big chance, Should I have got his address?? It's too late tho. hehe

 

To enjoy nice hot weather we went to a beach and a resort pool with Jo's friends Jenifer, Lin and Lu. The beach was soooo nice. It was so wide, and the color of the sky and the sea was so clear. There were few people on the beach, so we could have a private around us, but Jo and her friends said it was busy because of Friday today. How come! It was not busy!! I was comparing with the beach where we went to last summer in Japan.... I envyed them again. After we came back from the sea I was surprised that I didn't smell and was not sticky at all. It was like after taking a bath. In Japan we usually smell and are sticky after swiming in the sea. Jo said it was because the sea water was SUPER clean there. It was really good. I wanna go to the sea every day! But here is the bad thing for me, I got a tan there!!! Jenifer noticed that and said ' You got a tan! It's not fair!!' But I wanted to say ' IT'S NOT FAIR!!' because they put 8 spf sun oil and soaked up the sun and didn't get a tan, I put 50 spf sunscreen and was hiding from the sun in the shadow of a parasol. You know white skin is cool in Japan. I got a tan, still in early May. NOOOO!

 

Jo organized every thing for me while I stayed there. But I bothered her sometimes. I was the cat upsetter there. Her cat envyed me to attract her attention, so one night he dicided to sh**t on my bed. OMG. I woke her up, and when she saw that with sleepy eyes, she got angry at her cat. Poor cat. I still love you. Another day I woke her up at 7 am even though it was on weekend. I thought I slept over, but I realized I watched my Japanese clock, 6 hours earlier than Qatari clock. Sorry Jojo!! About her friends they were so nice. I liked them. But most people were from Scotland, it was hard to hear their accent, so I couldn't speak almost anything in first 2 days. I was unusually so quiet there. ( After that I was ok. )

 

Last day Jo organized a desert tour for me, but she had to work that day, so I went there with Jo's friend Rorry and his friend Bridget. We went there in Toyota Land Cruiser and enjoyed hard driving on the desert. The scenery was so beautiful. Dunes went far away, it was far different from Tottori dunes. haha And I could see Saudi Arabia over the sea. It was a great time. When we got a camp on the desert, an Arabic tour guide took me around the camp and explained about it a lot. I thought he liked a Japanese little girl. ( I guessed he thought I was a sutudent tho. ) I like being small. :) In the evenig Jo and I went shopping to a mall. There were many nice clothes, it was cheaper than Japan and luckyly it was in sale season. I wanted to buy many things, but there were almost nothing my size!!! They were TOO BIG for me. I didn't know I was soooo small IN THE WORLD. I managed to find some nice clothes, but I don't like being small!!! :(

 

I had a great time there. Thank you Jojo!! Can't wait to see you next time in Japan. Take care!