Hi! I am a 38 year old English teacher working at a new English-language university in Erbil, an ancient city in the Kurdish region of Iraq. It hasn't been easy - my hobbies (salsa, yoga and cycling) are not really things I can do here... and the foods I live most (sushi, any kind of seafood really and Korean, Indian or any spicy food)are not available and hence, you guessed it, I have become fat beyond recognition (almost). I hope to spend this year finding inventive ways to get fit again...