Sitting And Waiting for Something Magical...

Hey! Sorry this is late!

Today I am coming to you live from parent-teacher conferences. Literally. I have very little to do and 8 hours to do it. Anyways, since you last heard from me I have not done much. I put in grades and double-checked them. Then, of course, I find out the day after quarter ends that about ¼ of them are wrong because a tardy penalty didn’t save. So basically, some grades weren’t as low as they should have been. Anyways, I’ve done all I could to help that and apparently some did not save because parents are coming in with either complaints or praises when it should be the opposite. There’s not too much new again this week but I did find out that the London trip has been re-approved (had to send in the information again two weeks ago) and that I can start student signups which are actually all of next week. I also found out that a lot of the information I’ve brought to the vice principal and dean of the school-when it comes to students-is being completely backed up or handled with efficiently. Even some of the things we brought to the attention of one of the owners of the school seems to have been heard and hopefully answered soon. Outside of classes, drama club has their auditions for the play coming up next week so I think I’ll be getting pretty busy with that. Also I found out that the auditorium they are building will not be ready this year so we will have to perform in the elementary school but only for students—which is something I don’t quite understand for the play. I’m going to have to see what I can do about that.

Outside of work, I have mostly been spending my time doing whatever I want. I have up until Christmas planned day by day so I’ve been able to hangout a little bit more with random people and I quite enjoy taking time off. This past weekend I travelled with a few guys and went to the Hidd Bridge in Bahrain which gives you a very nice view of the city skyline and there was also a park we stumbled across which would be an awesome place for a night picnic. Or even just to people watch because it is a very big place where families spend their time on the weekends. We then went back to the roof of the apartment where there was a grill so we made kabobs and s’mores J
The day after, I went with the guys again to the mall to do a little bit of shopping both for clothes and apartment stuff. Shockingly, I was the one done first. While we were driving back, we decided to do a little bit of exploring and went on the bridge that crosses the ocean to Saudi Arabia. We only went to the checkpoint, which is actually closer to Bahrain then Saudi, but it was about a 15 minute drive just on the bridge. When we got to the checkpoint, we saw a McDonald’s so we stopped off to get a few pictures and explore. We couldn’t do too much, though, as the actual Saudi entrance part of the bridge was there too.
After that, nothing too much happened this past week. Last night Kay and the guys (again) went to a restaurant called Mohamed Noor’s which serves Middle Eastern food. We got the full experience of a typical meal here because not only was it cooked with their spices and ways, but we had to remove our shoes, sit on the carpeted floor, and eat with our hands…it was actually really cool! We went to the souq after eating because Kay had to pick up some Christmas presents from there. In the end, we wandered around for a couple hours and I bought two soccer jerseys for myself. And some snacks of course.

Like I said, I’m now sitting here at conferences and enjoying 8 hours of nothing but sitting on my butt. But (haha, butt but) thankfully it’s almost done. I really only had one parent come and argue about their child and one make some excuses for her daughter but I’ve come to expect that after what everyone has been saying all week. Tomorrow night there will be a party at a fancy hotel and we’ve all been invited so we shall see how that goes. Anyways, I’ve got a few things to do before I have to leave school so I will sign off! Here’s a picture of me and the sea lion, just because.