Eid Mubarak!

Happy Eid! We're off school next week, and heading to Jordan. The flight leaves at midnight tonight and we'll be away until October 20! That's one way to make the days fly by.

Today was a good and relatively relaxing day. I let the girls watch movies in French class; French 1 watched a movie on learning French and French 2 watched the Princess Diaries in French. They complained at first, but it had their complete attention for 55 minutes, plus they kept asking questions, like, "why did the subtitle say that? she said something else..." It makes me glad that they were paying attention.

I did give the Economics class a free work period today, seeing as only 5 of them came to class and I didn't feel like actually doing any work. One of my girls is from Ottawa, Canada - it was neat to connect with her a little.

I also met the previous French teacher after school today - that was a little awkward. She said to me, "I hope you got all the stuff I left for you" and i wanted to say, "yeah, thanks for all the plentiful resources" in a sarcastic tone. But I just said yes, being nice and what not. It is working out, and I'm proud of all my girls. They are MY girls. And they are good students. Even when they whine.

It's definitely a challenging year, but I'm having fun (finally!). Once Eid is over, school days will go back to the original 7:30-2:30 format, which is exhausting, but in a way it's better because we can just get more done. And the girls won't have the "But I'm fasting, miss" excuse!

And we can listen to music in class, again. I love subjecting them to my French music.

Well, I'm off to pack! See you in 9 days, with plenty of pictures.