Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

Arabian snow

You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and the light coming in the windows is just a little bit brighter? And outdoor ambient noise seems a little muted? And you just know in your heart that it snowed overnight? So you and the kids run to the front door and throw it open to bask in the beauty of freshly fallen snow?

Well, we don't have that here, at least not the part with snow. But what we DO have is freshly rolled-in fog.
And it has the same glowy-through-the-curtains effect as snow does. And the kids were certainly excited about it. They know that the 100% humidity fog that rolls in this time of year means that autumn and cooler temperatures are on their way. Huzzah!

But you can never leave

A pronunciation question