for your welcoming comments. Now back from Brunch and it was great - but hey, that water is expensive!!! Weird that they have endless free champagne but whack on an huge charge for bottled water. Quite funny really. Beautiful view.

I'm a pretty positive person generally - and why go to another country and not give it your best shot. If you want to spend your life complaining you can do that at home! But as I say, so far all good. We drove around a little this morning - we took someone's advice to get used to driving around and get our bearings on a Friday morning when it's quiet, and that was good advice.

I feel very privileged that I'm a white female foreign worker, however, and not an Asian construction worker as I'm sure those poor buggers don't get treated any where near as well as I am and I really do appreciate it - to the point of feeling rather guilty about it. You see those poor guys working outside in this heat, that's pretty tough. And we would not have our nice air conditioned apartments to live in without them.