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It was my friends birthday. We were having a birthday party for her. That party would be in a another friends home. This would be my first Filipino birthday party that I have ever been to in Qatar. I had been to Filipino parties before but not in Qatar. I knew that with the Filipinos the food is important . Everyone brings along some food. Some made rice dishes and noodles dishes, and the lady in the house made Chicken Adobo, there was Pizzas from Papa Johns, Ice Cream and someone made some Filipino deserts, I got a Arabic Mixed Grill From the Arabic takeaway. My favourite takeaway food here. It consists of Lamb and Chicken, Hummus, salad and flat breads.
And there was a Chocolate Birthday Cake too, nice and light easy to eat, made locally in one of the many cake shops in Doha. They know how to make good cakes there. After the food came the singing. Everyone had there chance to sing there favourite song another thing that the Filipinos love doing. The two things that the Filipinos love doing eating and singing. After a couple of hours singing we finished up as some of the people had work early the next morning.
Four of us set off home in my friends car. Her car was owned by the company she worked for. As we drove home a small bread van collided with our front end on the passenger side. The road was very busy, it is always very busy on the roads in Doha. We got out and had a look at the damage. and went down to the van driver. The first thing he said was it was not his fault. He told us that a driver in a four wheel drive cut him up. The four wheel drive car was much bigger than him so he turned his little van out of the way and into us. He also told us that he was from Nepal and not long living there. We decided that we would go to the Police station and report the crash. After about 30 minutes looking for the station we eventually found it. We took a ticket at the desk and waited our turn, when our turn come the officer took the details first from my friend and then from the van driver, he went outside and examined the vehicles and went back into the station. He said that the van driver was in the wrong and that his insurance will have to pay for the damages. He wrote out his report and gave a copy to my friend and one to the van driver. And my friend got the insurance details from the van driver. The van driver had to pay a fee of a hundred Qatari Riyals for the report. Looking at the report later none of us could understand it as it was in Arabic.
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