Work, Work, Work

Wow! I just realised my last post was a month ago. I guess we have been so busy with life in Maadi that I haven't even thought of entering anything onto the blog.
School has played a major role over the last month. We've had International Day (Tony subbed for me while I returned home for Susan's funeral), bread tasting sessions, Health Week and Sports Day all in March. Touch season has now finished and I have decided to abandon my university study for the  lifestyle I came to Egypt for.

International Day - Everyone wore black tshirts, blue jeans and jandals. 

Outside, looking at the displays.

I taught them E Papa. It took a while but they got there in the end.

We planted tomato, cucumber and capsicum seeds. What a challenge that was!

Shared lunch to celebrate Health Week.

My marinated chicken was a big hit.

They all showed that Egyptian kids do have manners.

Sports Day was a none event. This is the space on the roof which
was used for a football game, which turned into a lesson on sportsmanship.

One of the activities was a relay where the kids stood around and
waited for the supervisors to stop chatting. I was not impressed!

My Mothers' Day stash. Thanks kids!! One of the cards actually
said," Happy Mothers' Day Mrs Maria from your son Youssef." Cute!

Heading downstairs at the end of another busy day.

Bread Tasting for one of our Social Studies lessons -
ballady (local), German rye, baguette and voted best of all, fried bread (with butter and jam).

Cairo Touch Champions 2014. With 4 Kiwis in the team what do you expect?

Jim and Josie came for a visit and absolutely loved Cairo,
especially the dinner by lamplight we organised for them at home.

You find all kinds of unusual sights in Maadi - including tortoises out for a walk...

... and ballady dogs on car roofs.

Next month we will catch up with Warwick Crawford and Wendy Spence as they pass through Cairo (separately), Bruce and Margo return for another rest stop, and we head off to Turkey for a well earned holiday after working for 8 straight weeks in a row.