Not long til I am home now....

Hi folks

Another couple of weeks have flown by - more than half way through Ramadan now and I am surviving! The humidity outside tho is really getting to everyone - it has been humid now every day for weeks - normally we get the odd day or so of it but not continuous like this - apparently its the worst its been in years.... I am looking forward to some cooler weather - although most of you will probably find that weird!!!

Since I last wrote, I have been pretty busy - PAWS has kept me busy again although last week I managed to re-home 7 kittens and a tortoise - yes, a tortoise turned up on my doorstep but the next day I did manage to reunite him with his owner, who, in fact, said I can do a PAWS event at the hobby farm when it gets cooler - so it was worth "Mr T" being lost - the hobby farm is basically the stables on Aramco and is pretty out the way so I could do a barn dance or something down there I think and no-one would bother us!!!!

We had a girlie night the other Weds which was nice to catch up with friends and some of the new girls also joined us. There are quite a few new hires coming out over the next few months so some new faces around... On the Thursday I went to Bahrain with James and then on to Sheryl and Ian's place on Amwaj Island. Lovely apartment with great views. Ian cooked curry and it was just nice to stay in for a drink - we managed to get some wine from the hotel too as Bahrain generally is dry during Ramadan so that was a bargin... Friday we just chilled out at the hotel and then came home later...

I have been doing the usual this week - teaching, PAWS stuff, gearing up for coming home next week... my boss has been out most of the week so its just me here and I seem to have spent half my week in the coffee room!! Going for a meal tonight at the Heritage Village - traditional Saudi food etc - will post some photos - and have to go into town tomorrow - pain really as the shops don't open until 8.30pm but I need some new sunglasses as I just managed to break my others again - last time I ordered a new part for them it took 6 months to fix them - so think I will have to bring them home to the UK to be fixed this time...

Oh and last weekend I went to Dubai with James - a last minute decision really - but cheap time to go. We stayed at the Shereton in Jumirah - visited the Atlantis and the aquarium there and chilled at the pool - it wasn't so humid over there and went out for a lovely meal and visited the malls. It was nice to get away for a couple of days...

Got another girlie night this Weds too - I am cooking lasagne - and Thursday I am going for my first sailing lesson and then to a leaving do and then the countdown really begins. Fly out Weds morning of the 8th - arrive in the UK around 7am...

Anyway, over and out from me - hope to see you all soon...

Jill

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I seem to be behind on blogs!!!

Well, Happy Ramadan as they say in these parts....

We are 5 days into it now - I quite like it - numerous coffee breaks in the "sin room", extended lunch and going home a bit early! Its great! I do keep forgetting I am not supposed to eat and drink in front of the Muslims though!!

The weekend before last we were over in Bahrain for Rachel and Lauretta's birthday - went to the Meat Co for food and then on to JJ's - really enjoyed myself... unfortunately the next day I was really ill - I do believe that drink played some part in it, but I went to the Dr Saturday and got signed off for 2 days as he said I had a virus. Quite a few folk have had a stomach virus anyway and it took me a week before I felt much better!

Busy with teaching still although classes are a little quieter now with so many people on vacation and it has been incredibly hot and humid lately too. Roll on the winter!

PAWS is keeping me inundated - there have been so many kittens - its not real - I just cannot find homes for them either very easily - check out all the cats I need homes for...

http://www.saudipaws.com/ag.htm

There are more to add too yet!

We were over in Bahrain again last weekend - always a must the weekend before Ramadan really - so went over Weds night - ended up in JJ's and met some British navy guys (see Taff in the background of the photo!!) so had a right old laugh with them and then it was Nicola's birthday and she had a roof top BBQ at the hotel we stayed at. It was so hot though - we all got ready to go out and had to go and dry off again before we could go out later...!!! Ended up in JJ's for a change again!!!

Friday myself and Tracy came back at mid-day - couldn't really face brunch although a lot of our friends did go...

This weekend we were over in Saudi - quite a welcome change really - went to the gym and to a party Weds night on camp - slept for 11 hours that night - I think I was a bit tired! And Thursday I popped to a friend's house who has got 4 kittens she found up for adoption and then I did some stuff around camp. Went to the Blue Strawberry for a meal then and on up to Sara compound to Music Mania night - it was so busy and a great night.... got in at 4am!!!!!!!

Anyway, thats bought you up to date really... busy week this week with teaching and I have some PAWS stuff to sort out too... only 24 days til I am home now too so not long!!!

See you soon...

Jill

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