Being there - School - August 25th

We went to school for the first time today. It was different than what we are used to. The school is made up of a series of 11 buildings, with the outdoor covered gym in the middle of them (there is also a small indoor gym). They do have 8 portables that are used for the high school kids. We had a chance to meet a lot of new people. The group was split up early in the morning into secondary and primary so we didn't see each other much until the bus ride back home (ya, we get taken to and from school by a small bus/minivan). In all those years of teaching, we've never been taken to school by private transportation ... it's kinda nice not to have to drive.

It felt really weird when we got home after school as we started checking the golf scores for the Barclay's tournament : we had already done a full day's work this week and the leaders of the tournament hadn't teed off yet. It will take some getting used to (just like when I saw the other night a baseball game in San Francisco starting here at 5 am the next day!).

In the evening, we went to another beautiful (and very big) mall called the Avenues (http://www.the-avenues.com/about-avenues.html). We didn't have much time to shop but we will surely return to explore that place a little more. Jacqui's life might also have gotten a little bit better with that visit as we found out that they just opened a Tim's in the mall; the first Tim's in Kuwait. We also got phones at the mall; guess who got which one! Also note the letters on the smaller phone; kinda cool, isn't it? You won't find that in North America!

All in all, it was a good day!