About letting go and holding very tight

When the kids grow up and are chosen to participate in an exchange project with school than,.... 

1. Firstly you grow by pride.

2. Secondly you shout from the rooftops how important it is to let them go and spread their wings.

3. Thirdly when they are all packed and ready to get in the airplane you just want to hold them tight and not let them go.

Dear Louka, enjoy this amazing experience and your time in the USA. The pictures we have received make us happy and show you are having a great time! The cooler temperatures and green environment seems a breath of fresh air after many hot school years out in the desert.

Dear Mrs K and dear Mrs A, thank you for embracing our girl as if she was your daughter and P thank you for being a great company and caring as a brother. Don't forget to send her back, we miss her!

Uniform

It took a while to find our daily routine this school year, thus our ‘first-school-day-post’ got some delay.

Or it might have been because of this:

We have to wear school uniforms from this year onwards. Bye bye colorful clothes and personal gadgets, all geared up exactly the same! It most have advantages, but so far we think it is boring!

Eco-le

‘Mon Eco-le’, the nursery of our youngest, gave all the parents a Xmas present; a coconut shell with chive planted by our own kids.

His favorite sister can show his creation as he does not like to pose today.

Evacuation

The last couple of days there was unstable weather, and intermittent sand storms.

Today we even had a little bit of rain. Nothing exceptional I hear you think, except when you live out here, as rain IS exceptional in the United Arab Emirates. As it is not very common the house and road infrastructure are not adjusted to these weather conditions. Even with the slightest bit of rain, the electricity breaks down, the rain’s coming in through the roof and the roads are flooding. I am talking about a normal shower of rain and not a tropical downpour.

Today when the first drops fell down, we got the following mail from our children’s school:

‘BREAKING NEWS: En raison des orages et selon l'ordre du KHDA, l'établissement va fermer ses portes au plus vite possible. Le Lycée est en train de contacter les familles pour organiser le départ des élèves.’

All schools were evacuated today, and another couple of drops of rain later the kids were dropped at my doorsteps by the school bus.

I took them to Satwa fabric area, we spotted some nice fabrics at Tahir, unluckily enough they were being used as doormat to avoid wet shoes inside the shop. 

For a fabric-shopping-addict as myself it doesn’t feel right to use fabric as a doormat!

Next post we are back to business!