No Internet!

I don't know if I talked about it before, about fifteen of us teachers have had a "bumpy" road as far as getting settled into our new flats. After that elecrticl fire in our building about a week ago, the school set us up in a really nice hotel as we waited for repairs to be comlplete and the power to come back in our Mahboula apartments (The Dunes). Last night we finally moved back to The Dunes, but it could be weeks before we get internet!! Right now I'm writing this from the school library.

Speaking of school, tomorrow we've got an hour meet-and-greet with parents and students! Unfortunately, the parents or the teachers still don't know which kids are in which class. ASK is a private school, and all students have to pass admissions testing. And for whatever reason some parents like to wait till the last minute to bring there kids in to do that. So...that number of having 17 students in my class like I said before will definitely rise until all the student testing is complete.

(It's weird...this keyboard I'm using has english and Arabic characters on it!)

Today we took our final scheduled shopping trip to one of the big malls around here. Unfortunaltely is was scheduled for the morning...which means if you didn't eat anything before you left, you wouldn't eat for awhile. We had some bus/flatbed issues so we were all stuck in the mall for an extra hour and a half - 25 teachers with full carts loitering in the mall, hungry and thristy. A few of us were sitting on the floor against the wall and one of the "mall guards" told us we had to stand up! We all looked around confused, assuming that maybe it was a Ramadan thing or something. Alright it's getting late...I need to call a cab home and practice by bargaining skills. :)