New CMU-Q building

If you'd like to follow the progress of the Carnegie Mellon-Qatar building here in Education City, check out the webcam!

Right now we're sharing space with Cornell; next year we'll have to move to even more temporary digs. We hope to be in the new building in about 16 months, I think.

TAMU-Q's building, which was designed by the same architect, is nearing completion. I think it's beautiful! You can check out their construction webcam, too. (It's the red and beige building. The white structure in the foreground is the new ceremonial pavilion.)

The *what* falls?

ثمّ يأتي الشّتاء، وتسقط الثّلوج فتابس الأرض حلّة بيضاء

This is not the most useful sentence we have learned in Arabic class.

It means something like, "Then comes winter, and snow falls, blanketing the earth in a white garment."* This is not something I have the opportunity to say very often, living in Qatar. (For the record, it's 73 degrees right now.)

* If you can translate it better, please do. The instructor was a little vague.