Nearing the end...

We are almost to the end of ramadan (woohoo!) This weekend starts the holiday of Eid (which is basically to celebrate the end of ramadan). In honor of Eid we have Sunday through Tuesday off from school (and Friday and Saturday of course). This makes me very happy :-)



Today my class got new desks and chairs (we would have gotten them earlier but they had to be built, ha) The kids were super excited which was a challenge today. We are still working on rearranging the odd shaped room to make it less awkward.



The other day I was waiting outside with some of the kids for drivers, parents, etc to pick them up. One of my little girls started singing the song, "That's the way, uh huh uh huh I like it uh huh uh huh..." It was all I could to not to start laughing. She said she had a dance to go with it too but was too shy to show me. So cute!



I have been on a marathon of home visits lately. All of our teachers do home visits to students' houses. It's nice because you get to know the family situation which shows you more about the student. Another reason I love home visits is that you get to be your fun self- not your teacher self :-)

I also visited my friend's home the other night. My roomies went with me, which was cool because there were 4 of us and my friend has 3 sisters- 4 and 4. They are very sweet and speak amazing English (though they were impressed with the little Arabic I know). Somehow we started singing. One of my roomies is the nursery teacher and would not sing on her own. So I told her we should do the hokey pokey (jokingly) and they all wanted to. We all got up and started teaching our new friends the hokey pokey. Just as we were all getting into it a neighbor pokes her head over the wall lauughing at us. It was a funny sight seeing 8 grown women doing the hokey pokey (especially if you have never seen it before, HA!) It was a great night though, we really got into great discussions deeper than surface level.

I believe that is all the updates I have for now :-)