Diary Entries
New Apartment
Ping Pong
Independence Day
New Office Space
Meal and Mosque
Basketball
Lucci

New Apartment

We've been blessed to be able to move into a three bedroom apartment.  We are in the same apartment building, just a few doors away.  

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Master Bedroom

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Storage Room

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Ping Pong

One of the nice things about a bigger apartment is a bigger dining room table.  We've been finding alternate uses for it.  

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David researched the proper dimensions table tennis play and our table is a foot too short and need to be a foot wider to be regulation.  It's working for our purposes though.

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Qatar Independence Day

Our students had a celebration for Qatar's Independence Day.  It was held right outside the Cornell Medical building that Carnegie Mellon is sharing with them until we get our new building.


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Traditional Sword Dance

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Incense burner, Rose Water Bottles, Dates

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Henna

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Lanny and Marjorie

New Office Space


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Because we've welcomed new employees to the Carnegie Mellon Campus we've had to shift some office spaces.  

Human Resources has moved to a space that has glass walls with blinds inside...the glass makes the offices seem bigger and the blinds give us privacy if we need it.

There are now 7 Teaching Assistants so they've all been grouped into one room.  

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David and Justin's space

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Traditional Meal and Mosque Tour

This event was a follow up to our employee orientation day in August.  We toured some mosques in town and had a traditional meal.

Our hosts explained the washing before the prayer time (Ablution), went through the wording of the prayer and showed us the proper way to pray according to Islam.

We learned that Doha has more mosques per capita than any other place in the world.

After we'd toured two mosques in town the men and women were split up and taken to Qatari homes to share in a meal together.  The Qatari's were very hospital.

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Mosque built in '50s

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Don't forget to remove your shoes

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Ablution (Washing) before prayer

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70's Mosque, Ladies Section

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Men's Section

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Demonstrating the prayer

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Men at the traditional meal

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Asian Basketball Championships

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We thought the tassels on the net were a nice middle-eastern touch.

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Qatar vs. Kazakstan:  Qatar won big.  Qatar ended up placing 3rd in the tournament.

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Jon Caulkins, Marjorie and Justin Carlson, and Lanny enjoy the China vs. Lebanon game.

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This Chinese player Thunder-dunks on a guys head.  This was the second time.

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The Lebanese Fans win the spirit award.

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What China fans lacked in numbers they made up for in small flags.  I really wanted to start a chant "No more Mao! We want Yao!"

 

 

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Korea beat Jordan on a last second three pointer.  Jordan was leading by 8 with about 3 minutes left.  The guy in this picture fouled a guy and then got called for a technical foul.  Korea scored 5 points in one trip down the court.

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Yao Ming is tall.

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Yao throws down against Lebanon

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Yao shows his touch.  China ended up easily winning the tournament.

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Joseph, Arnel, and David

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Qatar Player != Arab

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Our Friend Lucci

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Lanny and Lucci making pizza
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Lucci and Lanny coloring

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One handful of cheese on the pizza... one handful in the mouth

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