Still Busy.....

• Trying to get ready for my trip home. Not really - I haven't even started! Need to shop, need to pack, need to prepare kids, need to....., need to....., need to! Planning on hitting the "ballad" this weekend and doing some souveniour shopping. Buying gifts from Jordan for non-Arabs is hard. If you need gifts for Arabs, just take a suitcase full of jameed and some dried moulkiyeh :). I guess I am going to take sweets, fake camels, and miniature replicas of the Petra Treasury. Any other ideas?

• Have to let two people go at work tomorrow - not actually firing, just not renewing their contracts. Very hard. Very necessary. Something else my mama DID NOT TEACH ME! Feel kind of sick. I hear it gets easier after the first couple of times but I really doubt it. In times like this, I guess that it is good that I am an anonymous blogger.

• Got great news this week! Their is an audiologist/surgeons' conference in Amman this week and they will be performing 5 surgeries to restore hearing in FIVE children for FREE. We are helping locate the children for the surgeries and unfortunately of the 2 schools we contacted only 1 "remembered" to prepare the childrens' medical files for us to pick up so it seems that all 5 will be coming from one school. Where ever they come from, it is truly a blessing, alhamduillah, thank GOD!

• Got my grade for my first essay. It was a disappointing 87 but insha'Allah, God willing, now that I know what she wants I will be able to pull it up to an A by the end of the term. Someone remind me again, why am I doing this?

• For those of you who post comments which I do not reply to, SORRY! I really have the intention to respond but time passes faster than my I think sometimes.