Weather has been great so far. We are in the first week of March and haven't seen temperatures in the 30's yet. There is no humidity, morning temperatures are around 17 - 20 degrees and daytime highs are around 26 -28! It is just great!
Students left school early twice in February because there were road closures due to official visits from dignitaries of other countries (President of Iran and Emir of Kuwait). They close the roads for safety reasons, which means students have to get home before the road closures. So students left at 1pm one day and at 11 am the other day. We left about an hour after the kids. Kind of nice to get home early. We did however got caught in one of those road closures on one evening coming back from a restaurant. It took us 45 minutes to go from the Qurum roundabout to our place (less than 1 km away!). Everyone was just stopped on the road, nowhere to go! Roll down the windows, turn off the engine and listen to music, or sleep, like Jacqui did!
Workwise, everything is fine. We have 3 more weeks before our spring break and our trip to the Maldives. We are so looking forward to it; it will be so cool to be there.
Jacqui has been busy getting all the required papers needed for her new job in Thailand. It is amazing to see how much paperwork is required to teach there. She got her police check done here in Oman, which was good. But she also needs official transcripts and copies of her diplomas from U of O. Well, the name on her papers do not match the name that she now has, so she needs a document attesting that her name has been legally changed from Jacqueline Roy to Jacqueline Emond (a marriage certificate is not proof of that). Oh, but hold on, her passport says Jacqueline Ann Emond, so now we have to change the whole thing again. And then she has to sign every copy of what we send to Bangkok and the signature has to match her signature on her passport - I would be in trouble with that as my signature is never the same because my handwriting is so bad! All in all, she has almost everything done and what is missing is in the works. But until you have lived that process of working in another country, there is a lot more to do than meets the eye!
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| at the Royal Opera House of Muscat, for "West Side Story" |
