Happy New Year 2009 - or is it?

Well a new year has dawned and the celebrations are over. Will this be a good year or will it go down in the annals of infamy? I would hope the former but suspect the latter.

Anyway, I'm no near booking up my holiday back in Muscat and, as summer is fast approaching there (OK, OK ....I know there's still a few months left but I'm pretty busy with work up until April) I may have to wait until the cool of the winter 2009/10.

Reading others' blogs from Oman, life doesn't seem to have changed so much since I left in late 2005. I'm oddly reassured about that. I guess a part of me doesn't want things to change as I would feel further removed from Oman than I already do. Of course, things will change over time. I just hope that my frequent visits back will keep my up-to-date on what is happening.

I still haven't been accepted on the list of bloggers in the Oman Community Blog. I'm still hopeful!!

I'm getting used to this!

At last, I've found out how to change the language of my blog page to English! I can relax at last. Perhaps I should experiment and put the default language as Arabic. I could always see if I can remember what I learned in Oman. I must admit I didn't learn as much as I should have done - but that's typical of a lot of expats.

My first ever blog!

Hello cyber-world out there. This is my fist ever blog entry! It's kind of exciting. I'm still a bit confused about all of this as all of the instructions in setting up this were in French and I'm not so good at french....but here goes.

I'm a recently repatriated expat who lived in Oman for 10 years and who would like from time to time to comment on things going on over there right now and in the past when I lived there.

I hope you all can contribute to my blog too....

desertman