I had such a great time today sharing my favorite holiday with people who've never heard of it! We held a 'reverse' trick-or-treat program in the halls and it was a big hit. This means some of us res life staffers dressed up in costumes and delivered little treat bags to all the residents rooms. So many of them took pictures of us because they had never heard of Halloween and thought it was really neat. Plus who doesn't like candy!

Last night I did pumpkin carving with my CDAs. None of them had ever done this before so it was a RIOT! It broke my heart at the end, when they were SO proud of their pumpkins and the boys said "Oh man, I'm going to keep mine forever, this is so cool!".....and I had to inform them that it will only last a week or so. I made sure to take a photo of each of them with their pumpkin :)


i found this entertaing candy...take a closer look at the bottom right corner....yeah, nothing like holding a gun to a kid's head eh?


i wasn't feeling good last night, so i made the classic 'sick-o-lantern'


all finished and glow sticks in place


i went as dorothy, so my supervisor decided to be the wicked witch


a lot of kids don't know the wizard of oz and kept thinking i was alice from wonderland....with a dog for rabbit


toto was a BIG hit


because he floated with i walked!


Happy Halloween everyone!

Yes, I still have loads of Greece pics to share but I was having a few issues. Meanwhile here are some recent shots from around Doha.


you don't see that sign every day


i nicknamed this 'pigeon palace'...it's a bird house!


notice that little flag on the light post?
doha put in a bid for the olympics!


down on the corniche


the weather is starting to cool and flowers are starting to bloom


the water really is beautiful here


this is the main post office, aka the bee hive


beautiful sunset!!

heading to the main land via tender boat


i love broken columns


the public toilets...yeah


this would have been the housing complex


overlooking the town center


a central well tucked between some houses


the town amphitheatre which holds 40,000


the BEST public toilet sign i've ever seen in all my travels

Greece was absolutely amazing! My body is still in recovery mode. It was one hell of a workout! Even on a cruise ship with 5 buffet meals a day I managed to lose 5 pounds and I think my ass and calves are tighter than they have ever been. I don't have the time to really get into my adventures with this post but I will drop a few teaser photos.

I really want to give a BIG HUGE THANK YOU to (e:metalpeter) for sending me SPOT coffee beans! I got the package today and it was such a wonderful surprise. Efharisto! (that's thank you in Greek).

Since everyone had already left on their holidays and I still had to work through the weekend I thought...it's time for some office shennanigans. The big cheese will come back to find his office like this :)