Summer in Doha or How to survive in this heat and steam ?

Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 2:44 pm · Filed under Living... and tagged: baby, blog, heat, humidity, husband, internet, Iris, mall, weather

That is the main question by mid July. The temperature is now stuck at 42-44°Celsius (107-111°Fahrenheit) by day and go down to 33-34°C (92-93°F) only (!) at night.The humidity rate has grown suddenly and you feel like you are in your bathroom or in a steam bath… Everyone with children has went back home during the school holidays and will not return until early September…

So either i fly back home to spend a sweet but lonely (=without my husband) summer with my 6 months old daughter, stuck every evening on the computer screen skyping with my husband… – that i did for only two weeks in July – or i find ways to survive summer in Doha to be with him… – that i have been doing since…

I still can go to the malls where i can shop, eat and attend the Doha Summer Festival events, i can meet the rare other women i know are still here, try to go to an open museum, or stay at the apartment where i can take care of and play with Iris, watch movies and shows on tv, blog all day…, start – at last – my first watercolor in years!, find another apartment, write to friends and family and chat and skype with them, prepare our first anniversary party, organize my photographs, print some of them to put them in frames, cook for Iris and both of us with our new steamer, blender and food processor, make scrapbooks of all the stuff we brought back from our trips before the birth, there is plenty of things to do at home!

I regret that i cannot take Iris for nice outside walks, that the only air she is breathing is the conditioning one or the wet and hot one.

In fact, summer in Doha is like spending time waiting for the snow to melt or the thunderstorm to pass.

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