School

The uniform saga continues

October 6, 2011

It was too early for me to celebrate the fact that Pristine’s school didn’t require us to buy new uniforms for the new school year. On the first day of school, she was wearing her old uniform in Grade 2. And everything was well. …until we received a newsletter saying that while there is no [...]

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First day of school, 2011

September 11, 2011

I slept at 8:30 pm last night but greedy as this might sound, I’m sleepy at work today. It’s the first day of school for 2011 here in Dubai and like a new student excited for class, I was giddy. I felt my eyes were closed last night but my mind was fully awake thinking [...]

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Living in Dubai – School bus and bus assistants

January 27, 2011

Photo credit Most of the schools in Dubai run school bus services for students. Moms who stay at home or can make time to drop and/or pick up their child (children) use their own cars for what is popularly called here as ‘school runs’. Anyway, buses come in different sizes from minivan types to those [...]

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Now officially a kindergartner

September 5, 2007

After two months of waiting and looking out the window to see if her school bus has come, she finally got her wish. We got everything ready last night, her new school uniform, her new socks and shoes and her old Cinderella bag (she wouldn’t want to have any other bag than the Cinderella bag!). [...]

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