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I know I know the blog seems to have been forgotten....
Not at all, we've finally finished for this school year and well the last two weeks have been so very very hectic getting finished, add to the mix Andre being away on the other side of the kingdom again and well..............blog just went by the wayside.
BUT...... it has got some finally posted 'old' news :) take a look at :
Moms and Muffins
My boy's birthday
Student-Led Conferences
and the compound Luau
more to come in the next few days, once I have stopped going in to school to finish things up :).

The king is coming, the king is coming ....

Saudi Aramco was celebrating their 75th anniversary this last week. So King Abdullah, the 6th king of Saudi Arabia was visiting to participate in the celebrations. He was almost 9 years old when the company was started in 1933. Due to celebrations and demonstrations at Aramco Dhahran (main camp) as well as other venues in and around Dhahran on Tuesday, we had a virtual day. This meant our students stayed home and used blackboard to particiapte in either online classes or download worksheets set by their teachers. Teachers were meant to be at school for the day but this turned in to a half day only as we had reports of roads being closed completely. Meant we left school at 11:30, sat in traffic for an hour but at least we got home !

We heard on Wednesday that the king would be visiting KFUPM on Saturday and so we scheduled a half day for school...... Saturday was spent completely at home though because late on Friday we received reports that roads would be closed much earlier and so it wasn't worth getting everyone to school only to be stuck indefinitely.

Don't you just love royalty and the way they affect your life ;)

Farewell Kiwi

My baby boy is missing .......

He was last seen on Sunday the 11th. In the three years he has been with us, he has never not slept in our bed ! So when he didn't turn up on Monday .... something must have been wrong !

We have walked the compound up and down, inside and out, several times a day, calling him. Now some of you might say, but cats don't come when they're called - Well ours do, especially Kiwi, in fact he will call you back :) ! We have signs up everywhere, we made all the necessary phonecalls to check on whether he could have been "found" and taken elsewhere, nothing !

We are choosing to believe our boy has been adopted (imo forcibly because I can't believe he chose not to come home - afterall he was king of the castle here hehehe) into another home because his vanishing into thin air is just too much of a puzzle.

So, farewell my beautiful boy, hope you're happy where ever you are now
xoxoxo

**of course if you should ever manage to find your way home, you'll always be welcomed with open arms**

Luau 2008

Next stop on Thursday was the compound organised Luau - kindof end of year function at the main pool. It started at 2pm, so when Andre and the girls left me at school they went straight there and I joined them after work.

There were organised games, the inflatable island, wonderful food and well just relaxing by the pool. An altogether fun-packed afternoon. The evening events were adults only but we did not attend so I can't comment on how that went ;)

Aimee and Andre competed in the island dash, Aimee made it to the end but not in a winning time. Sadly Andre fell off the side - kids were allowed to throw wet spounges and bounce the island while the dads tried to race. Andre also competed in the raft race at the request of his daughters - after a very sinking start, he managed to finish 4 out of 6 :) And then also at the request of the girls, we all took part in the mixed doubles raft race - Aimee and I paired together and Andre and Lucy paired together. Wow the length of a pool is long ! We didn't win but Aimee and I did manage to beat Andre and Lucy, and that was a win for us !

Student-Led Conferences 2008

And here we are again, just exactly where the year drained away to I have no idea but once again we prepare for the annual student-led conferences.

I was busy with my middle school students and the presentations of their very successful electronic portfolios - we used blogger this year and it worked so very well, I am so proud of their efforts.

After Andre had taken Lucy to swimming lessons, they came in to school just in time to have lunch with me. Sadly the cafeteria was not open so our only option was muffins and milkshakes at Joffrey's. Not very healthy but hey when you're hungry, you're hungry hehehe. After lunch we headed down to the classrooms. First for Lucy's conference which went really well. She has come a long way since the begining of the year, still a way to go but we're getting there. We then headed upstairs for Aimee's conference. She did well, has thoroughly enjoyed her year and done some excelent work. We even got to have a sneak peak at the scrapbooking pages she's been making in a scrapbooking club she's been going to after school.

All in all, how could we not be proud of our girls !