Aug. 11:04 am.

I have taken a few more pics, but it will be a while until I can get them on here. We have all been very busy around here with shopping, tasks, and getting used to everything. I can't write much right now, as I have a room now and need to start doing some work on it!

Yesterday was a huge day; 12 hours of running around Muscat on a bus with all the new teachers (about 10 of us)! We were able to accomplish a lot, we started the morning getting our fingerprints at a place that was just as comfortable and looked about as official as a barn, then went to get our resident card (I am now an Omani resident!) at a very nice building, and set up our bank accounts, and finally to get our driving licence (I am now an Omani driver!)at an nearly official looking building with very governmental waiting times . We also had to return to every building as we were leaving it because of small errors such as wrong employers, wrong pictures, and wrong date of births on improtant documents. After all that, we had a little part at Joel's to celebrate the near end of getting ourselves registered with the man - in this case, the Sultan Qaboos.

This morning was our last chore outside of school, which was one of the easiest as well as funnest, our liquor licence (I am now an Omani drinker - very rare!). How do you acquire a liquor licence you may ask? Well, they set up a can of beer and a shot of vodka on the counter, if you can drink them both within 20 seconds (you can shotgun the beer if you want, but you have to supply your own key), your golden! Ha ha, jay kay. Seriously, you just have to fill out paper work and prove that you aren't muslim (they just ask). After that, of course, we went to the liquor store! Since Ramadan is coming up, I bought close to $100 worth of booze.

Well, off to do school work now, hope all is well with everyone!