A Local Expat when....
Is that a new statement then? A Local Expat or should it be an Expat Local? Probably not. However, this is how I now feel. On my way to dropping Sean off at the Music Academy, a Qatar Foundation (QF) funded music school to which he goes to for free as it is subsidized by the QF. Lucky is my Local Expat son, zippo to be trained by the best musicians in the world. We found that the CD's and iPod had been removed from the car due to its latest service. Usually I would put the local Al Jazeera News channel on, which is the TV station filtered onto the radio (imagine the scenario of Audio with no visuals, with news readers voice overs saying: "some people may find the following visuals disturbing, etc", no worries there we are cool in this car). However, we (Qatar) have a local radio station 97.5 (which I get on 97.4 so we joke about the fact that our favourite station at home was 94.7 , there are notable differences, but I will not go into those!) We bop along to ...