This is a foreign land. (6 and almost 7)
I wonder if there will come a time when I won't be surprised or in complete awe at this foreign land. We've finished week 6 and almost week 7 and there are still so many things to wonder at. Let's start with the Sunday before last. (I'm not sure that I'll ever get used to having our Sabbath on Friday and Saturday our lone free weekend day.) Sunday is the beginning of the school week. Our villa wall is also the back wall of the kids' school. It was a quiet morning until I heard crazy loud sirens and whistles and tons of alarms going off. It sounded like something was descending on the house! I ran upstairs so I could see over the wall to the school and found kids pouring out of the buildings. And then complete silence. It turns out the kids at ACS know how to do fire drills...except this wasn't a drill. It was a real fire. According to Chloe, the best part was, besides the alarms, the students were notified via intercom with: "there ha
