glish half arabic school that supports islam. they have awesome facilities including a pool which ameena was way psyched about. She is ready for school we just need to keep our fingers crossed that we are moved into the house at that time. They start September 1st. The awesome thing is that their buses are airconditioned and have dvd players,,,I bet ameena wont want to get off the bus some days. Her uniform is going to be sooooo cutie. Its gray and pink, how perfect.
We went to the castle today, the main attraction wasn't the 1000 year old ruins...no it was my blonde arabic child that was speaking english. You would have thought that he was a martian with how these people were taking pictures of him and pinching his cheeks...yeah very little personal space here :P
Ibraheem is picking up the language sooo fast. The other day for breakfast he said "oh here's cheese." in arabic without even thinking about it. I am soo impressed by his ear. Ameena is doing better tooo. She's reminding herself that she needs to speak it and she is reminding me too. I am having a harder time, I guess its more difficult to teach an old dog new tricks.
Its still hot here, most days its in the upper 90s but it helps that it is breezy and there is no humidity. The sun seems different here, more bright, I practically have to keep my sunglasses on all day for the fear of my retnas being burned out :p We saw chickens the other day and immediately ibraheem wanted to go pick them up, I had to remind him that they aren't like Dana's nice birds and that they will peck your eyes out. With that Ibraheem decided not to approach the "crazy birds."
tomorrow will be a busy building day picking out stone and floor tiles as well as meeting with the carpenter to design the kitchen (every womans dream).
wish you all well
