I've been living here for almost exactly 2 weeks now. The deal is I get to live in the lakeside cabin in exchange for working each morning. That leaves afternoons free to blog, study French and Arabic, do yoga, wander around the property, bicycle into town, etc. Here's a photo of me from yesterday. If you look closely you can see "Abu Dhabi" on my t-shirt (or maybe not), along with yellow camels. Behind me are pepper plants with plastic coverings. It's been a cold spring here so Clark (the manager/owner) asked me to cut the bottoms out of empty water containers and then use the containers to warm up the pepper plants. Evenings I put the caps on the containers, and each morning I take them off so the plants don't get too hot during the day. This has become a sort of daily ritual for me.