Holiday Decisions

 

So we have decided what we are doing!. Lynn read the blog last week and came back with a resounding vote for plan A, so in an ‘OK lets just do it moment’ we booked! We shall be spending 3 amazing weeks with them in July once we have spent 2 days travelling to get there!

I am sooooooo excited!

We come back for a week in Cairo and then leave to spend 2 weeks in the UK. The school pays for these flights as part of my contract which is just as well as we will be stony broke by then. It is Ramadan in August so the whole day is upside down. Shops don’t open until 4pm and stay open very late as the shop keepers spend most of the fasting (daylight) hours asleep. Iftar (breakfast) is around 6:30 pm and then people treat the night as day! We will be back for the last week or so as Geoff has an induction week to do even though he will have been here a year.

The silliness over our travelling continued as I suggested  going to wherever the international dialling code is 007 (we have been watching James Bond recently), ironically this turns out to be Russia. So maybe next year we will go there.

The year 12 and 13 students left school on Thursday and as part of their leaving ‘high jinks’ dressed in black robes with full face veils and soaked students in the playground with an egg and water mix using water bombs and super soakers. I found the whole thing, what with the loud chanting, slightly disturbing. My Egyptian colleague didn’t, she found the  male and female student walking round the playground with their arms round each other offensive and hoped her daughter never did anything like that!   Isn’t it strange what we find aceptable.