Ever since we came back from Egypt, our daily lives have been pretty quiet. Work during the week, walk on the beach on weekends, go to the gym regularly - we are now members at two different gyms; the Crowne Plaza where we use the pool (and the bar) on Thursdays - even thought we do workout once in a while, and the Balance gym, where we've had a personal trainer since the start of March. It has helped us both as we are getting pushed a lot and cannot make any excuses for not doing the work. So we are now getting fit, ... well fitter than we were!
We had a long weekend the first weekend of May, as the Thursday was a religious holiday. It was more than a welcomed holiday as I had a lot of work to do with exams coming up. We also got our plane tickets to go back home, and come back to Muscat. We finish school on June 23rd at noon (maybe 1pm) and leave that same night at 11:30, on KLM, on a flight to Amsterdam, and then, after a few hours, we board another flight to take us to Toronto (arrival just before noon!!) Our return flight is scheduled for the 14th of August as our first day of work is on the 16th. Students come in on the 23rd; it is an early start but I expect that we will finish early because of Ramadan which should start around May 27th next year. Normally, students do not go to school during Ramadan, which means our exams would have to be done by that date and we'd be home shortly after that.
Temperatures are climbing; we hit 45 last Sunday. Our highs are now in the low 40's and the daily lows are in the low 30's. Don't need to be a detective to figure out it will be warm when you wake up at 5am and it already is 35 degrees! But so far, it has been dry (no humidity), so it is tolerable, We'll take a 45 dry as opposed to a 35 with humidity anytime!
And now, on the Canadian front, on Sunday May 15th, a bunch of Canucks (I imagine people working in the oil industry) will play a hockey game against the Omani National Hockey team (they are part of the IIHF) to raise funds for the people in Fort McMurray. How cool is that. Of course we are going to the game. We haven't seen live hockey since our kids stopped playing (which already seems too long ago). I don't imagine the caliber will be any good, but the cause is. More details in my next blog entry.
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