We had a great Christmas in Doha this year. First we had our work function at the Intercontinental Hotel, it was an international affair. It started with a small Maori welcome and waiata by a couple of our consultants.This was great as we all felt close to home, progressed to singing and dancing with the karaoke and many of us finished learning Palestinian dancing from some of our translators husbands. It was great. Mind you it was a bit hard to get to work the next day but we all managed. The photo is me with one of our translating team, Bashar and his wife.
On Christmas Day itself we were allowed the day off. So we had 26 people to the Khalifa apartments for a shared Christmas dinner that started about 4pm. We all did different things and in true kiwi fashion there was a mountain of food. The tables were set out on the third floor, where we life, as we have all four apartments on that level. We used the passageway out side for the tables and the apartments for serving and mingling in. It was a great meal and there was much hilarity as we shared jokes, food and wine. I ended my night having a quiet sheisha at Lara's place with Gaye, it was mint flavoured lovely.
Even though we were far away and miss family and friends being with our Qatar whanau was great.
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