I DON'T READ ARABIC!

What do you do when your mosque is under construction? Bring in a trailer mosque!

The blogger.com homepage announces the addition of 3 new languages - Arabic, Perisan and Hebrew. That's great, except blogger has figured out where I am posting from, and has the Arabic version of their "boilerplate" language on my blog page! Took me a while to figure out how to get to the log-in page.

Still celebrating International Week at the American School. Spent yesterday working at the International Buffet - lunch for the kids and staff. Every family was asked to contribute a dish from their home country (there are about 1,200 kids). I worked at the Canadian table (no Canadians able to volunteer) and served pancakes, maple syrup, maple muffins, sugar cookies in the shape of maple leaves, etc; So much food at this buffet! Everyone tried to "outdo" everyone else. The Qatar royal family donated a roasted lamb - the entire lamb, on a large round platter, surrounded by rice and vegetables. (Before the kids came in volunteers removed the lamb's head.) I had some - it was very good. One woman brought 300 pieces of sushi. The European table had a waffle iron set up and made Belgian waffles with strawberry sauce and whipped cream. At the American table we had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, orange slices, mac and cheese, chocolate chip cookies, corn bread, hot dogs, McDonald's cheeseburgers, Dunkin Donuts, brownies, a large USA flag cake, franks and beans, jambalaya, 6 large buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken, etc; I worked for 3 hours, left for my Girl Scout meeting, and came back when the event was over to pick up my dish. There was so much food left over that the organizers invited the school construction workers in to eat - good, those people have a hard life. Erin stuck to the traditional foods, but Grant tried octopus and cuttle fish at the Asian table, and chicken pudding from South Africa - he didn't really care for it but at least he tried it!

Other food news here is that Krispy Kreme is coming to Doha! Will open a store just down the street from us. Just what we (don't) need!

Have a good weekend!