Tuesday, October 30

We hosted the EMAC Volleyball Tournament for both Girls and Boys last weekend (Thursday through Saturday). 5 other teams visited (Doha, Amman, BISC-Cairo and Beruit). The players stayed with families of our students while the coaches stayed on campus. We hosted a coach from BISC. Our boys team finished 3^rd while our girls team finished 5^th. The boys have a lot of talent but when they get behind in a match, they have a tendency to lose their focus and start bickering with each other. The Schutz crowd was very vocal and supportive of both teams. It is interesting because the cheers they use are ones we used in the States in the dark ages when we were both in school!

Our boys’ team played off campus the first two days of the tournament. Four of us went over on Friday to watch the games. On our way back, while driving on the Corniche, we had a little accident. A man tried crossing the street and paused when he saw us, then as we got closer, he started up again and we just nipped him. He fell to the street and fortunately no other cars were coming and he was ok. It is surprising that more are not hit as the traffic just zooms by and many of the pedestrians cross anywhere on the street.

On Monday, Pat subbed as the 1^st grade teacher. The regular teacher was ill and Pat was asked to fill in. She was a little nervous the night before but did an excellent job. Who knows, maybe she has found her next career! This is the end of the quarter and everyone is busy getting assignments graded and their grades finalized. We have a work day on Thursday and hopefully everyone will get done before the weekend.