How I Celebrated My 31st Birthday
Well, everyone, I have been officially lousy at writing. I have reasons, though. My whole heart and soul have been poured into work- teaching and coaching debate/acting. It's been a busy challenge.
This is how I spent my 31st birthday-
Drove into work, as usual. I managed to leave at the right time to take the 25 minutes option to work. Had I left 5 minutes later, it ould have been 45 minutes. At work, I got grade 6 students ready to play at the assembly so I acutally gave up my prep period to perform at the assembly, and it was very fun. The whole middle school wished me a happy birthday.
All of my classes were pretty slack-we ran through our music and then visited and ate. I did have one class help me to organize several stacks of music as their birthday present to me.
At 2:00PM, I left my last class to head to the airport. I drove while the team took the bus. We were off to Cairo for the Forensics and Debate tournament. When I got to the airport and met up with the rest of the team, we learned the flight was delayed an hour and a half. Par for the course, really, taking Kuwait Airways from Kuwait to Cairo. We hung out at the airport (lame) and finally left more htan 2 hours late, getting us in to Cairo after 10PM and to the school close to midnight. Oh joy.
The next day, the tournament began. I will not bore you with details, but I have definietly received the best present ever. We took 1st AND 2nd place in debate!!! There were many other awards, but many people commented on how strong my debators are and how polite they were, too. We have been stuggling with this all season. So, we won the debate sweepstakes (best points for all debate teams) and placed 3rd in the rest of the overall events (speech and drama). Yay us!
I have enjoyed my time here and am good and ready for some sleep.
So, I will try to write again soon but I now must get back to my students.
This is how I spent my 31st birthday-
Drove into work, as usual. I managed to leave at the right time to take the 25 minutes option to work. Had I left 5 minutes later, it ould have been 45 minutes. At work, I got grade 6 students ready to play at the assembly so I acutally gave up my prep period to perform at the assembly, and it was very fun. The whole middle school wished me a happy birthday.
All of my classes were pretty slack-we ran through our music and then visited and ate. I did have one class help me to organize several stacks of music as their birthday present to me.
At 2:00PM, I left my last class to head to the airport. I drove while the team took the bus. We were off to Cairo for the Forensics and Debate tournament. When I got to the airport and met up with the rest of the team, we learned the flight was delayed an hour and a half. Par for the course, really, taking Kuwait Airways from Kuwait to Cairo. We hung out at the airport (lame) and finally left more htan 2 hours late, getting us in to Cairo after 10PM and to the school close to midnight. Oh joy.
The next day, the tournament began. I will not bore you with details, but I have definietly received the best present ever. We took 1st AND 2nd place in debate!!! There were many other awards, but many people commented on how strong my debators are and how polite they were, too. We have been stuggling with this all season. So, we won the debate sweepstakes (best points for all debate teams) and placed 3rd in the rest of the overall events (speech and drama). Yay us!
I have enjoyed my time here and am good and ready for some sleep.
So, I will try to write again soon but I now must get back to my students.
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