The first term school holidays end today and the children go back to school tomorrow.
BB will start getting his common test results back from tomorrow and if he does not perform to the expectations set down, I have told him, he has to face the consequences. I have told him that his phone time will be severely curtailed and he will not get to use the laptop to play games. I am not sure how much I can enforce this as with a hormonally charged teen, I don’t want to be too forceful as it may backfire. Wish me luck for the coming week!
GG also had a very hectic holiday week. Last night, she was telling me that she didn’t feel like she was on holiday, what with going back to school for remedial lessons and a public performance and then having tuitions almost daily, she needs another few days before starting school again. But such is life and school starts tomorrow, whether she likes it or not!
This term is going to be a bit more hectic than the previous one because they will now focus on the mid-year exams which should happen sometime in end-April.
Ah, well, hopefully more school news next week when school starts…
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family’s last flight to Texas. Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family, and this perspective keeps her buoyant through the hardships she encounters: the humiliation of going through a checkpoint on a visit to her father’s home in the West Bank; the fights with her father, who wants her to become a famous professor and stay away from boys; the end of her childhood as Iraq invades Kuwait on her thirteenth birthday; and the scare she gives her family when she runs away from home.
Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry–but falls over dead! After her quiche’s secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavoury truth…
Memories and Such 