Well it has been a long time since I have written anything and that is because my internet has not worked very well. I now have an iPhone and use that as my internet connection and since I have an apple computer this is working much, much better.
I just got back from a couple of weeks at home for Christmas and now we are back to school everyday. We just did report cards for the kids and that is interesting. No one ever gave us a curriculum or anything like that so now that we have a report card with expectations on it, well okay. And are they realistic for kids with no English- not at all! Especially not for math. Hopefully the people developing this program are really taking a good look at how things are going and reevaluating for next year. I somehow doubt that, though.
Anyway, I moved out of the Hilton on November 4, about 1 month later that most people because I got my furniture allowance a month late. But now I live in my house and it is nice and cozy!
I have been very sick since I came back from visiting home. I had a long wait in the airport because of the blizzard and I think I picked up the flu. Ever since then I have not been able to hear out of my left ear. I am about to start my second round of antibiotics to try to clear this up. The good thing is a doctor yesterday said it is because of being sick and it is just being stubborn and it is not forever.
I have had to go to the doctor twice since I have been back in the last couple of weeks, and we don't have our health cards yet. They expired on the last day of December and I guess ADEC purchased new insurance. Well mostly everyone else has gotten a temporary card now, but I haven't, so I have had to pay out of pocket for all of these visits and prescriptions with the promise of being reimbursed. For some reason I am having a hard time believing that will happen because I have been promised to be reimbursed for other things (purchases made for school- handed in receipts over two months ago and STILL waiting!!!!!) so I am hoping I did not just lose 1,507 dirhams or 410 dollars in doctor costs. That will make me very angry.
Now that I have internet I will try to write more. We got some rain the other day- that was exciting because it was the first time I saw rain since I have been here, almost five months. It wasn't a downpour or anything, but enough to wet the ground. When it rains a lot, I hear everything shuts down because there is no drainage system. We will see!
