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[Quibby84]

Hey, I am on these forums because I am planning on teaching English in Japan. I saw the forum for Qatar and wanted to tell all that Qatar is a very generous and great country. I live in Louisiana (USA) and last year we were hit by a huge hurricane (two actually) many people died, MANY lost their homes. Qatar donated a TON of money to disperse to students in financial need as well as in the path of the storm. Although I was affected, I didnt lose my home or my life yet Qatar choose to give me (and many others) very large scholarships.
This scholarship was a very big blessing and I just wanted to show my gratitude to the country of Qatar for it.

[veiledsentiments]

That's one funny lookin' cat!!

Interesting how news of things like that seem to never hit the American media... not surprising though. Rather embarrassing how the US govt totally dropped the ball... so perhaps they preferred it be kept quiet.

How did they decide who qualified for the tuition assistance? Who did the dispersing?

VS

[cam]

Here is a link from the Louisiana Weekly which mentions the generoisity of Qatar wrt huricane Katrina.

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060522x

Do you mind sharing with us how much aid you got?

[veiledsentiments]

I wonder why Qatar chose Xavier University. Did some of the royal family attend university there over the years?

VS

[Quibby84]

I dont even go to Xavier. I go to Louisiana State University. I got $1,300, which is ALOT. I am extremely grateful.
I never applied for this, just got a letter in the mail saying that I was going to get a grant from the goverment of Qatar.
I dont really know why I got this grant. I know that I pay for my college by myself, my family is not so rich. I recently have gotten married (in April) and his income has helped this semester. I feel like I do not really deserve it but it is very needed. We are trying to save for Japan and this will help alot. My parents were hit by Hurricane Rita, I (where I lived before I was married) was hit by Hurricane Kathrina. Rita took out a lot of my parents trees and they also lost their electricty for more than a week. My parents were blessed because trees fell all around their house but none on it. When they went back to the house they had no idea what to expect. Kathrina took a tree from where I was living, and we only lost our electricty for a day. We stayed home during Kathrina. The house shook and the rain and winded whipped but the house still stood. I was out of school for week. Life was VERY hectic after the storm. Traffic was horrible and there were literally people everywhere (I live in Baton Rouge, about 45 min away from New Orleans). I volunteered one day at our local Civic Center were there were thousands of angry newly-homeless people/people who may have spent more than one night on a freeway that was above water in New Orleans. It took months to make the traffic somewhat bearable, it is still heavy. I went to New Orleans this weekend and you could still see some damage on big buildings.
So anyways, I dont know if I answered your questions, tell me if I didnt.
To sum it up, I was told that I recieved the grant because of my finanical need as well as my being in the affected area of the hurricane.

funny cat eh? lol

[Quibby84]

by the way, they asked that we write a thank you note to Qatar, I will do that later this week.

but i do kinda wish that I could do more than that.

[veiledsentiments]

Yes, definitely send a letter to the Embassy thanking them.

A letter to the editor of your local newspaper might also be a nice thought.

VS

[Bindair Dundat]