kids at party

Today we had a party in my English class for October birthdays. Yes, I know that we are a third of the way through November, but as it turned out, there was only one October birthday, and she went out of town. Then the holiday lasted most of last week.

I had promised cake and music, and I delivered on the former. Unfortunately, the electricity went out for most of the class period, which kind of cut back on the party vibe. They were all very funny, the teenagers took about a billion pictures of each other with my camera, the adults just sat and chatted, but seemed impressed that an effort had been made. Toward the end of the hour, the electricity came back on, and we all clapped. There was a bit of dancing to a music video – some blond Arab gal wearing shiny pink and very skimpy pajamas. It is sort of bizarre how Arabic pop stars are every bit as slutty looking as their western counterparts.

Ooh- I forgot to mention that the one month countdown is upon us……