April 30, 2010

Ahlan wasahlan,
Longest, most boring day of my life! I woke up and immediately started my 7 lessons still left over from last week. My mom and I did science all day long. From now on I am getting all my work done before the weekend. The internet has been a pain in the butt all week and it makes it really hard to homeschool… When my dad got home from playing golf we had a little lunch and my dad told us some intriguing and exciting news… He had played golf with a man who had lived on the compound in Dhahran which is located on the opposite side of the country from Khamis-Mushayt. Apparently, the compound has only villas (where as this compound has villas and apartments.) The houses in Dhahran are 5,000 square feet! HUGE!! Some of the villas have pools but not all of them. In South Bend, Indiana in the morning you go and turn on the heat in your car about ten minutes before you get in so you don’t freeze to death. It is the opposite in Dhahran. The reason some of the homes have pools is because it gets sooooo hot there. I would love to go to Dhahran! There are a lot more people on the compound there and there is more western influence. That’s what I call heaven in Saudi Arabia… Originally, we were going to be stationed in Dhahran but dad’s company assumed we would want to attend the international schools off the compound which cost 14,000 dollars a year per student and with 4 children going to school the company couldn’t afford for us to live in Dhahran! My dad keeps his eye open for jobs opening up in Dhahran. I hope he gets one!
Our neighbors are supposed to get home from Bahrain tonight at midnight. Pray for their safe flight home…