This is an unusual week. Normally we are the ones in the danger zone, we are the ones deep in the Middle East and people worry about us. Not this week. We get to watch as first an earthquake then Hurricane Irene dominate the news and really mess up the weekends of family and friends.
Just for fun, I went back and played Nat King Cole’s version of “Good night, Irene” off the web. What an amazing voice he had, and what a great song, especially if your mother’s name is Irene. With Irene being downgraded to at Category 1 I told Jordan his grandmother packs more punch than the hurricane. He shook his head in total agreement.
With the web I have learned that Irene has put a crimp in the plans of my Girl Scout friend Lisa, who debated for weeks where to spend her vacation. New York is normally such a good choice. Oops!! I also learned my Nigeria-bound friends have been waiting for months for their paperwork to come through so they could leave – and learned it is done – and stuck in New York City. I learned all of this sitting at my computer in Kuwait. The internet is very, very cool!
Life here is crazy. Getting ready for the new school year has been especially difficult this year, as we have lots of new administrators and shorter working hours due to Ramadan. We have two more days, then Ramadan ends (translation – we can eat, and more importantly, drink in public.) We have some time to rest, then the kids come back. I am hoping as hard as we all are working that the school year goes smoothly.
We wish all of you on the Irene-dominated East Coast a safe week-end. We will all be watching!
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