We’re in Doha…

 

Sorry this picture is so terrible. It's the best I can do this morning as I scramble to get out the door. This is the view from my hotel room, through tinted (and slightly dirty) windows.

Hello parents and friends. The students can’t access their email tonight because Internet here is $25 a day. So, I’m writing to represent them… We got here on time, around 8 p.m., and settled into the hotel at 9. I’m too tired to fully go into what Doha is like. In fact, I couldn’t really capture it adequately anyway. The buildings are spectacular and extend way up into the sky. It’s shiny and clean and miraculous. It’s nothing – not even one bit – like the other places we’ve seen on our program. We’re all staying at the top of a 26-floor hotel named Movenpick. One entire wall of our rooms looks out onto the water on the left, and fantastic skyscrapers lit with all kinds of colors to the right. I think most of the students are just lounging around on their beds tonight, looking out their windows. They’re hungry, I think, but there’s not much they can do about it now because even a snack in the lobby is $20. (Don’t worry – they were fed on the plane…) And anything else they could walk to is closed. So, we’ll get them to a grocery store tomorrow to offset the prices here… In the meantime, check back again soon. They’ll find their way to some Internet in the next day. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to post, on the main site, the last of the Cairo stories, as well as the Syria pieces, which are starting to come in.

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