1ST January 2013-i get an email for the 3rd final interview...i'm still in the bush mind you and the interview was for that night..
need to rush and get back to nairobi in time for the interview..and the 1st thing that goes on in my head is WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE WORKING ON THE 1ST JANUARY...my first welcome into the whirlwind world of the Arabs :)
Clearly I got the job..remember Mr Bum-he had no idea :p :p I told him the day before I was leaving :D :D that's on the 24th of jan..no one else knew except people who were very close to me...it's like i did a magic trick :p maybe I should add that to my CV..YOU THINK IT WOULD WORK?? Jazeera the physiotherapist/magician...loooool
So Mr Bum and I are doing the whole long distance thing..and I'm off to Doha..my 1st welcome there was with a friend of mine :) Waseem-we had been friends for a long while since high school..it was nice to have some one i knew there-his reaction to me was WTF HAPPENED TO YOU?? you must know i was wearing baggy clothes and had a haircut as if I had put a sufuria on my head and just chopped my hair any how no shape or style and I WAS FAT..then the PRO Emad-oh myyyy...no English..more like English shway shway (little little)...and that is when i learnt that my very good english would not work in doha...
The first real friend I made in Doha, Marica :) oh my she had my back no matter what from helping me lift my suitcase up those crazy stairs, to helping me get myself confidence back, to helping me lose the weight, to making me feel like I could achieve anything in this world. I was a physiotherapist, working in a gym learning new things and teaching what I knew :) we were like 2 bum cheeks that didn't want to be separated.
then the 1st morning-I met Vic...the horror was plain on her face as she looked me up and down, she was probably thinking how did this child land this job..till today I don't know what was running through her head..if only i had the power to read minds..hahahahahaa.. I was crazy scared of her, ..she became my mentor eventually and helped me through alot of stuff going on in that place..she also helped me get my confidence back...I love this woman to bits today :)
and that was just the beginning..stay tuned for more ;)
need to rush and get back to nairobi in time for the interview..and the 1st thing that goes on in my head is WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE WORKING ON THE 1ST JANUARY...my first welcome into the whirlwind world of the Arabs :)
Clearly I got the job..remember Mr Bum-he had no idea :p :p I told him the day before I was leaving :D :D that's on the 24th of jan..no one else knew except people who were very close to me...it's like i did a magic trick :p maybe I should add that to my CV..YOU THINK IT WOULD WORK?? Jazeera the physiotherapist/magician...loooool
So Mr Bum and I are doing the whole long distance thing..and I'm off to Doha..my 1st welcome there was with a friend of mine :) Waseem-we had been friends for a long while since high school..it was nice to have some one i knew there-his reaction to me was WTF HAPPENED TO YOU?? you must know i was wearing baggy clothes and had a haircut as if I had put a sufuria on my head and just chopped my hair any how no shape or style and I WAS FAT..then the PRO Emad-oh myyyy...no English..more like English shway shway (little little)...and that is when i learnt that my very good english would not work in doha...
The first real friend I made in Doha, Marica :) oh my she had my back no matter what from helping me lift my suitcase up those crazy stairs, to helping me get myself confidence back, to helping me lose the weight, to making me feel like I could achieve anything in this world. I was a physiotherapist, working in a gym learning new things and teaching what I knew :) we were like 2 bum cheeks that didn't want to be separated.
then the 1st morning-I met Vic...the horror was plain on her face as she looked me up and down, she was probably thinking how did this child land this job..till today I don't know what was running through her head..if only i had the power to read minds..hahahahahaa.. I was crazy scared of her, ..she became my mentor eventually and helped me through alot of stuff going on in that place..she also helped me get my confidence back...I love this woman to bits today :)
and that was just the beginning..stay tuned for more ;)
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