Hi everyone and welcome to the blog! I am SO late considering its been over a week since I landed in Qatar. Sorry to those that have been waiting for even a sentence on here. I've settled well and had the best 7 days in Doha. No bad days! I'll try to sum up the days so this isn't a long post.
The first few days consisted of learning a lot about the city at once. BIG shoutout to the VCU student liaison, LaKisha, who's been the biggest help since she picked me up from the airport. She showed me around Doha, the Education City, and told me how they do things around here. At this point I felt a lot cozier since I really didn't know much at first except the legal stuff. The second day I met my resident assistant, Salma. She's the sweetest and offered to make dinner the night we met. We had only the finest...cornflakes, a cucumber-tomato salad, and lintel soup (shelf-life is half as long since barely anything has preservatives). I'm now happily addicted to lintel soup. Thanks Salma. The next few days I was pretty much left to explore on my own. That's when I got to see a few buildings in Education City. In simple terms EC is a lot like a utopia. Visiting the Qatar National Library (QNL) and Student Center were amazing. I pretty much geeked out because there are things I have not seen before like design concepts or what they were made out of. The next 3 days were definitely the highlight of the week. I went to the freshman orientation for VCUarts and met nearly half of VCUQ. In a way it was actually nice to meet freshman as well, we were all new to this process and VCUQ. The craziest thing? I met another Margarita who works at VCUQ and she is from Mexico. The EC has students and staff from all over the world so I think that's been the coolest thing so far. Hearing so many different stories. - - Classes start soon so I am super excited for that. I heard we'll be doing more digital work than drawing so I am curious to see what our projects are like. For now, I am working on making more friends...especially ones with cars. LaKisha said its easier to be friends with people who have cars to see more things. Totally get that, there's not a lot of public transit and things are far away from each other here. It's not like Richmond where a Starbucks is a minute walk. And the weather? To best describe it it's like a slap in the face every time you walk outside. You only go outside to walk from building to building. As I start this blog feel free to look at the About page and give me feedback! OR questions!! I thought it would be cool to answer some people's questions on the blog that could be interior design, VCUQ, Qatar related, or really anything. Thanks for reading the FIRST blog post! ~Margarita
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