Holiday or not holiday, that is the question!

Here we are at the end of the first full week with the pupils back in school, or are we. We are due to be on holiday for the first three days of next week, i.e. Sun Mon Tue. This is the Eid (pronounced EED) holiday to mark the end of Ramadan. The only problem is that Eid depends on the sighting of the full moon (there's slightly more to it than that but I dont fully understand) and we are unsure when that will happen. It will be tonight or tomorrow night. The three days holidays start when the moon is sighted and if that is tonight that means that tomorrow is the first holiday! Imagine that in Scotland. Telling parents that tomorrow might or might not be a holiday. So we'll just have to wait and see I suppose. The school sends out a text message if tomorrow is the first day of Eid and all of the pupils and staff stay at home. Of course if tomorrow IS the holiday we go back on Tuesday instead of Wednesday. I hope the moon remains elusive tonight, I only teach two periods on a Thursday!!!

We have been invited out to dinner at the home of one of the biology teachers Rachel Quandalle some time during the holiday. She lives with her French husband and kids in a villa near to our new one and she has kindly offered to show us round the area and all the shortcuts to the shops. I suggested that Sheila will probably find those pretty quickly without assistance, thanks very much. She is taking her kids during the holiday to the Lost Paradise of Dilmun and suggested we might tag along. LPoD (lost Paradise .... you get the idea) is Bahrain's equivalent of Typhoon Lagoon in Florida. Its a water theme park with lots of rides and stuff. We will go along to that because we wanted to check that out before our first visitors arrive. It's too hot to play golf yet anyway. We are going to leave golf for a month or so until the temperatures get low enough to stay out in them for 3 hrs.

There are apparently some second hand shops that deliver large furniture so we might check one of those out tonight.

Cheers for now
David and Sheila