Classes are in session

Sun setting on another beautiful day in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Picture does not reveal how truly clean and bright and happy the school is.  Construction here is intelligent; we are only at half capacity at this time.  The entire second floor is unoccupied. 

Natural sauna.  ~ 125 F. Note flag.  What you don't feel is how hot the breeze is.  Missing the Hawaiian trades!

Abu Dhabi Bedaya Forum 13 September, 2010

Friends! Sandy A.

Nadine, Cindy, Melinda

Talk about rolling out the red carpet

Cindy, Melinda

Too bad we can't have second jobs; Ellen could model.

Lee, always smiling. We met during our final interview in San Francisco on June 9th. Went up the elevator to our interviews as strangers, came down as friends with jobs :) Will come to visit you soon in Al Gharbia!

Ramadan Ends, Eid begins

Abu Dhabi Mar Ramadan ends with the sighting of the new moonCelebrate! Eid Mubarek!

view from our beach @ the Fairmontarchitecture...stunning

avian friend-tern?

"We're all lost, we're all found, we're all the same." ~ Vertical Horizon ("Inside" from GO!)

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi

 Leaving the Fairmont to tour the Grand Mosque

 view from a Souk, or market

Same view the next morning

First night view from my hotel room at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr

John F. Kennedy Airport information board;my flight #100 left for Abu Dhabi at 10:50PM

Goodbye USA, Hello UAE

Flying out of JFK tonight at 10:50 ahead of Hurricane Earl, predicted to come to New England on Friday; Dad is driving me to the airport and Ellen Evans Lessard is on my flight:) Will be back in August but in the meantime stay tuned here for pictures and updates. Maybe Earl will follow us instead of heading toward the east coast of the US...? But if not, I pray for all of your safety. Love you all. Here, Earl! Catch me if you can!