Dzisiaj zabralam moja angielska rodzine do hotelu Ritz Carlton, na popoludniowa herbatke (no, wreszcie cos im sie spodobalo :)).

Oh, matko, jakze to wszystko bylo eleganckie, jakie dystyngowane, takie wyzsze sfery po prostu.

W kaciku siedziala sobie pani, i grala na harfie.

Podano kazdemu z nas taka patere, trojpoziomowa, a na tej paterze byly 4 kanapeczki, potem pietro wyzej byly ciasteczka, a jeszcze pietro wyzej byly babeczki. Kanapeczki i ciasteczka nalezalo brac z patery za pomoca srebrnych szczypczykow. Oto ta patera:

Potem podano herbatke (albo kawke, do wyboru), na pieknej porcelanie z Wedgewood (bardzo droga, i bardzo ekskluzywna porcelana), do tego srebrne lyzeczki, srebrne siteczka do kawy, i inne takie pierdoly. Zdjecia niestety nie oddaja uroku tej zastawy. Herbata po prostu smakowala inaczej, tylko dlatego, iz filizanka byla taka cudna.

A po herbatce weszlismy do sklepu (w hotelu), i widzielismy np. torebke ze skorki wezowej za 12 tysiecy riali, albo suknie za …. 30 tysiecy!

No mowie Wam, czulam sie jakbym przyszla z innej bajki. To nie moj swiat, ale i tak doswiadczenie bylo fajne.

Today I took my Enlgish family to Ritz Carlton hotel, for an afternoon tea.

Oh, gee, it all was so elegant, so posh! High life…

There was a lady, who was playing a harf.

They gave us a three level tray, and there were 4 canapes, then cookies, and then some cupcakes.

Then they served tea (or coffee, whatever you prefer), in beautiful Wedgewood china. There were also silver spoons, silver tea accessories and other things like that. Unfortunately photos don’t really show how beautiful it all was. Tea tasted better only because it was served in such a lovely cup.

After tea we went to a shop (in a hotel), where we saw for example a snake skin bag which cost 12 thousand rials, or a dress for 30 thousand rials (over 4000 pounds)!

I felt like if I came from a totally different story. It’s not my world, but the experience was cool.

Wczoraj bylismy na targu ze zwierzetami (o targu ze zwierzetami pisalam tutaj). Mielismy kilka atrakcji:

1. Widzielismy jak facet kupil wielblada, i jak go zapakowali na furgonetke. Ale on ryczal, ten wielbladek (maly byl). Powiedzialam Zuzi, ze to dlatego tak placze, bo do szkoly nie chce isc.

2. Widzielismy jak kozy uciekly z zagrody, a facet je ganial potem, cale takie stadko.

3. Karmilismy wielblada, takim zielskiem. Nawet Zuzia sie odwazyla, i dawala mu trawe. Ale mial zolte zeby, ten wielblad. Dobrze, ze nas nie oplul 🙂

4. Widzielismy klotnie Katarczyka ze sprzedawca (Iranczyk? Pakistanczyk?). Katarczyk wyciagnal noza, i przecial worek ze zbozem temu sprzedawcy. Sprzedawca zaprotestowal, to Katarczyk dawaj, jeszcze raz mu ten worek ciach, przecial. Posypalo sie zboze na droge….

5. Rodzina zrobila sobie zdjecie z lokalnymi. A potem jeden lokalny chcial zrobic mi zdjecie. Poniewaz oni pozowali, ja nie moglam odmowic, musi byc fair. No i mi cyknal fotke telefonem. Ale sie najaral, slowo, 10 minut pozniej wciaz sie gapil w ten telefon. Darmowe porno (w koncu pokazalam ramiona) 🙂 Wcale sie nie zdziwie, jak sie stane popularna wsrod nich, i jak mnie beda rozpoznawac teraz, he he.

Yesterday we went to animal market (I wrote about animal market here). We had few attractions:

1. We saw a man buying a camel. They put it on a van. The camel was "crying" a lot, it was so small, this camel. I told Zuzia that he’s crying because he doesn’t want to go to school.

2. We saw goats running away. And the man was trying to get them back to their pen.

3. We fed a camel, with some green stuff. Even Zuzia got courage to feed the camel. The camel had very yellow teeth. Good job he didn’t spit at us.

4. We saw a Qatari having a fight with a salesperson (Iranian? Pakistanian?). Qatari took a knife out, and cut the bag full of wheat. The salesperson protested, so Qatari again, cut the bag. The grains fell out to the ground…

5. Family was taking photos with locals. Then one of them wanted a photo of me. Because they allowed us to take a photo, I couldn’t really say no, it has to be fair. So he took a photo of me with a telephone. He was so excited, seriously, 10 minutes later he was still staring at his phone. Free porn (I showed my arms, didn’t I?) 🙂 I wouldn’t be surprised if I become popular amongst them and they will recognize me from now on.

Tutaj wcale nie tak trudno dostac sie do gazety. Wystarczy zdecydowac sie na…. wyjazd.

Otoz bardzo czesto w lokalnej prasie mozna przeczytac, ze pan taki to a taki wyjezdza z kraju, i jesli ktos ma jakiekolwiek zalegle sprawy w zwiazku z tym panem (np. pan zaciagnal kredyt, narobil dlugow, i te pe), to ma trzy czy iles tam dni od momentu ukazania sie ogloszenia na dochodzenie swoich praw (u pracodawcy tego pana). Po tym czasie firma zatrudniajaca pana nie ponosi zadnej odpowiedzialnosci.

Ogloszenia takie firmy daja poniewaz jesli pamietacie, w Katarze kazdy ma swojego sponsora, i widocznie ten sponsor jest odpowiedzialny rowniez za dlugi ‘podopiecznego’.

It’s not so hard to be in a paper here. It’s enough if you decide to… leave.

Very often in local newspapers you can read that mister such and such is leaving the country, and if you have any claims against him (e.g. he took a credit in a bank, or he owns you money, etc), you have three or something like that days to submit them (to the employer of a man).

Ads like this are given by companies because in Qatar everybody has his or her sponsor, and apparently sponsors are responsible for their ‘sponsorees’.