Dissapointed

( FANAR ‘Qatar Islamic Cultural Center’ )

Having lived in a arabic speaking country for 3 1/2 yrs, and since ive been a newbie in Doha, a fav question when i meet a new person is..." ohh u lived in Egypt, so do u speak Arabic??? " and my question is..." uhmmm unfortunately i do not, i could go by small words but that's about it".Malu kan...but the truth is that i never really made the afford and its a shame.

Before i left Cairo, i told my frens, i will learn Arabic in Doha and they all laughed but of course, one does not need to know any Arabic to live at all as majority are expats but i still wanted too and i was ready to learn. So today, i got up all excited to go and enroll myself for the course even convinced a fren to come along drove all the was to the Islamic Center, made 2 rounds looking for a parking, only to find out that the information that i was told over the phone was as all bogus!!! Can u imagine the frustration, apparently they decided to change the time table over the weekend, we were not the only ones, i could see a few other pissed off faces and i must say the lady at the counter wasn't much help either...PMS possibly..so rude and unwelcoming. We were told to come on Monday and Wednesday which of course i cant since lulu will be at home on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Crushed!!! that's all i can say...there are other centers but must of them are held during the evening and on days that i cant come, hadn't they change the time table...it would have been perfect.

Its a good thing N was with me and Souq Wakif is just across the street, some window shopping and breakie with a morning hubbly i felt a bit better,the morning wasn't completely gone but i was still annoyed.

Tried some abayas....not bad looking too :)