Another happy day begins today!
Mi, it’s waiting for us outside.
Who?
Qatar is waiting for us outside!
I thought you were telling me to go
Qatar, but I’m here already.
We woke up, had some breakfast, and now we're getting ready to go out ‘cause we have an appointment today,
but first we thought it would be nice if we
made a video explaining why we are here,
and where exactly we are now.
So many things will happen in the next few days, that if we don’t give you a short introduction about Qatar,
I think things may get a bit confusing for those
who have never heard about this country,
as it’s a very different one.
Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world,
and its capital, Doha, one of the richest cities,
and the reason for it is because they have
a lot of oil and a lot of gas,
they have the world’s third biggest natural gas reserve.
They have a lot gases.
Many gases!
It’s a multicultural country, with people
from any country you can imagine,
there are people from India,
Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia…
Brazil, South America, Peru,
there are people from England,
there are people from everywhere,
and it was a surprise when we got here,
‘cause we’ve passed through Qatar once before, when we made a flight connection on our way to Thailand,
but we never left the airport, everyone told us
there wasn’t much to be done around here.
Then recently we were invited to spend ten days here,
and we thought “Wow, 10 days? Will there be enough interesting things to see during all this time?”
That’s when we started a little research
about the country,
we found some news, what’s been
happening, what’s the place like
and what could we see and visit
during these 10 days.
We were invited here by Mind Sports,
which is a board games association,
like chess, backgammon and a whole
variety of other games,
and they promote presential games,
like championships and tournaments,
which is what we are here to talk about,
as well as online games that you
can play in their website.
It’s a really cool idea, a very interesting concept, we’ll talk more about it in our next videos.
When we were told we would be coming to Qatar,
I started researching the kind of clothes
I would have to wear,
and one of things I found out is that
Qatari women wear many different outfits.
Some of them cover their face
as well as the entire body,
while some decide only to cover their hair.
There’s many different ways to cover.
Foreigner women are recommended
not to reveal their shoulders,
not to wear clothes with plunging necklines
and not to reveal their knees.
So there I was, preparing things to come here,
when I checked the temperature in Qatar
and it was around 40 degrees Celsius,
which made me think
“Great, I’ll bring my tiny shorts and my strapless blouse”,
but no! I couldn’t bring them.
So I wondered “What can I bring, what can I use under 40 degrees?”, it was a problem to be solved.
I had to shop for a few things before coming
or I wouldn’t have anything to bring.
I’m checking the weather forecast for the next 10 days.
In all of them the minimum temperature will be
37 Celsius and the maximum will be 42 Celsius.
It will be really hot.
We’ve been traveling around Europe for almost one year now, and every day when we wake up we wonder
“Will it be a sunny day or will it rain? Will it be cloudy?”, and we are always hoping for a sunny day.
But here, have a look on the forecast,
all days will be sunny, all days will be hot,
you have no concerns in regard to good weather.
Here we have no doubts that we’ll have a hot day,
our concern is if it will be too hot.
It is said that June, July and August are the worst months for one to visit Qatar because of the heat.
So far, every time we had to ask someone for directions, people explain it as if showing in the palm of their hands,
so they say “It’s somewhere around here, somewhere around there or close to that thing”, whatever,
but we wondered
“Why do they show it with their hands?”,
so we had a look on the map and Qatar
really does resemble a human hand.
Am I right?
Doha is Qatar’s biggest city, and most of
the country’s population lives in it.
It’s where people are, it’s where all the jobs are.
The country is in full speed development, they are building a lot of roadways, a lot of bridges, business,
and we’ll get to see all that along the next few days.
Just so you understand, Qatar is right
in the center of the Middle East,
its neighboring countries are Saudi Arabia, Iraq,
Iran, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Oman and Yemen.
The country is recently in a very
delicate political situation,
which lead all of its neighboring
countries to cut ties with it.
Being located in a peninsula, completely dependable on foreign supplies from the neighboring countries,
Qatar’s situation became very complicated.
Much of the food, commodities and
even the people going to Qatar
have either to fly through neighboring countries
air space or they are supplied directly from them,
and now the only Middle Eastern countries that have diplomatic relations with Qatar are Iran and Turkey.
Now you’ll ask me “But is Qatar really that far away?”
And yes, it is a little. From Brazil it certainly is,
‘cause you’d have to leave from this point.
Imagine if you’re flying from São Paulo, you’d have to cross the African continent and Saudi Arabia
before you reached this tiny tip of land
where Qatar is located.
We came Europe. We came from Austria, which is here,
so we flew over Eastern Europe and
crossed both Turkey and Iran to get here.
Once we arrived we were faced by a very 
advanced country, the buildings are amazing,
and I think that a lot of people that have never heard about Qatar may have heard about Dubai.
Have you heard about Dubai?
Dubai's many futuristic
buildings resemble those of Doha.
Going back in time, 100 years ago this place
was nothing but a desert, there was nothing here.
Families used to live in tents scattered around the desert, they survived mainly because of fishing.
They used to fish for pearls.
They used to fish pearls!
Then, in 1920 the first gas extraction company arrived,
and it was followed by all this development
that makes Qatar one of today’s world powers.
Do you like the pizza? No, thanks, I’ve had my share.
Wherever there’s gas and oil,
there are also really rich people.
Since Qatar has a small population and a wealth division that is proportional to this population,
genuinely Qatari families receive government support
and have access to much better work opportunities
than any foreigner living in the country.
So all Qatari people we’ve seen so far clearly receive good salaries and have a pretty good living standard.
Besides receiving good salaries,
they don’t pay any taxes here in Qatar.
And even though they don’t pay any taxes
they have access to free education,
which is said to be of high quality,
free health system, they don’t have
tolls on their highways,
they have free access to everything a person needs.
And we’ve also heard that if you go to a museum here, if you go see an exhibition, you don’t have to pay for that.
It’s free of charge.
And that’s both for locals and foreigners.
We are the first Brazilians that have come
to shoot videos here in Qatar.
All the things that we learn and all the experiences
that we live anywhere in the world,
we do our best to share with you guys
and since we are in such a different country with such
a different culture, nothing fairer than sharing it all!
So we invite you guys to follow our videos,
subscribe to the channel if you haven’t done it yet,
check the channel for new videos every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 9 A.M. (Brazilian time),
and the next videos that are coming are…
Fantastic.
They are dream like!
We must get going now, but we thought it was important
for us to tell you guys a little about Qatar,
its location and its conditions, ‘cause we know
a lot of people are not aware about it,
and to ask you guys to keep an open mind and to be respectful with everything that we’ll be showing here,
after all, just like if we were receiving a Qatari person
in Brazil we’d want him or her to respect our culture,
they are receiving us with opened arms and a lot of respect so that we get to know their culture.
So once again, don’t forget to follow our next videos, they’ll be really nice, leave a ‘Like’ for this video,
and we’ll see you tomorrow with more videos…
and more stories!
Bye!
