Making up for lost blogs
Hello, sorry I haven't blogged for ages I have been too busy trying to mend the 2 years neglect that the English department has suffered from. I am feeling quite pleased with myself at the moment as I have done all 9 schemes of work, the handbook, mapped the whole year to the national curriculum and moderated the coursework marks! I ended up working a week later than everyone else, but at least it is done. I am trying not to worry about it too much until we get back from holiday.
We are flying out to Amman on Friday and I am very excited, I will be fulfilling some lifelong ambitions, 1. Petra, 2. The Dead Sea and 3. Syria. As usual I have the tour all planned out with 'factored in' rest days. Timmy is very happy about this, I am off the belief that you should need a holiday when you get back but Timmy is more laid back about the whole thing.
With the water being full of jellyfish, like it is in Bahrain at the moment, there will be no beach action for us, apart from the Dead Sea, no one has told Cons this... Also visiting Muslim countries means there is no need for a last minute bikini diet either as I will have to be of modest apparel.
Working in an international school has its benefits as we are going to stay with my Syrian friend from work Hiba in Damascus and then staying with Lawahid, another friend in Homs. We might try to hook up with Hashim in Jordan as well. The hospitality is amazing and we need to pay it back some how, so we have signed you up to be tour guides around lesser known London.
Life in Bahrain is great although a little quieter as everyone has disappeared for the summer and probably won't be back until late August early September. We won 50BD at the MegaMart raffle, very exciting.
We are making the most of drinking opportunities at the moment as there is less than two months until Ramadan. Tes we are counting down... We are already planning our annual iftar buffet and trying to convince our Bahraini friends to invite us over to their families at least once. This year Ramadan should be a bit more fun as we have more friends and should get some more iftar invites.
The catses are doing well, although Arthur is going on a diet when we get back because he has dandruff caused by being overweight. I am planning on taking him for a run up and down the stairs each day. You can buy these cat leads from Al Jazeera so I am going to get him one of those.
We are back on the 10th and I am looking forward to blogging and putting all the photos up on flickr. Have a lovely summer guys. Eat lots of ice-cream.
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We are flying out to Amman on Friday and I am very excited, I will be fulfilling some lifelong ambitions, 1. Petra, 2. The Dead Sea and 3. Syria. As usual I have the tour all planned out with 'factored in' rest days. Timmy is very happy about this, I am off the belief that you should need a holiday when you get back but Timmy is more laid back about the whole thing.
With the water being full of jellyfish, like it is in Bahrain at the moment, there will be no beach action for us, apart from the Dead Sea, no one has told Cons this... Also visiting Muslim countries means there is no need for a last minute bikini diet either as I will have to be of modest apparel.
Working in an international school has its benefits as we are going to stay with my Syrian friend from work Hiba in Damascus and then staying with Lawahid, another friend in Homs. We might try to hook up with Hashim in Jordan as well. The hospitality is amazing and we need to pay it back some how, so we have signed you up to be tour guides around lesser known London.
Life in Bahrain is great although a little quieter as everyone has disappeared for the summer and probably won't be back until late August early September. We won 50BD at the MegaMart raffle, very exciting.
We are making the most of drinking opportunities at the moment as there is less than two months until Ramadan. Tes we are counting down... We are already planning our annual iftar buffet and trying to convince our Bahraini friends to invite us over to their families at least once. This year Ramadan should be a bit more fun as we have more friends and should get some more iftar invites.
The catses are doing well, although Arthur is going on a diet when we get back because he has dandruff caused by being overweight. I am planning on taking him for a run up and down the stairs each day. You can buy these cat leads from Al Jazeera so I am going to get him one of those.
We are back on the 10th and I am looking forward to blogging and putting all the photos up on flickr. Have a lovely summer guys. Eat lots of ice-cream.
X
posted by Tim Heidi Arthur KofiI X at 8:48 am
3 Comments:
Lou and i are officially jealous of the pair of you . It sounds like you have got great holiday infront of you. Our holiday consists of spending 2 grand on moving to guildford
canyou get me a stick of petra rock
have fun
chris
Can I put in a request for a video posting of Heidi attempting to get Arthur into a car harness?
Am v sad to be missing out on Syrian fun but hoping to fit in some Middle Eastern action in the near future...
M x
There will be video evidence available.
I've heard Guildford is lovely this time of year...
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