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Friday: Chinese restaurant night and more!

Published: August 4, 2018

Ahlan! Today was a day full of preparations for the departure of our two-week villagers. Nevertheless, we managed to have a bit of fun along the way!

One of our mughamarat had a quiz game to review vocabulary, and got to pop balloons every time a question was answered correctly.

the balloons were extremely difficult to pop!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At lunch, we took a few family photos to commemorate the end of the two-week families.

everybody cheesing...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and another one...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then, we headed into our arts and sports period.

spray-painting a t-shirt...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

spray-painting a leaf...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

spray-painting wood...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we also continued with our mosaic projects...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"great, now I just have to wait for it to dry..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

crushing nuts to make baklava...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

laying out the filo dough filling...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afterward, we watched the final episode of the musalsal, and took a few photos to remember the characters. In today's episode, once the tooth fairy is back to normal, she wants to go back to her original goal of delivering gold to the children who have lost their teeth. Unfortunately, when she knocks on Goha's door, she discovers that Robin Hood is now a bear, and the soldier is now a crocodile. They go back to Shehrezad's and Shehryar's palace and ask Harry Potter, a visiting dignitary from the Ministry of Magic, for help. Harry Potter gladly and easily turns Robin Hood and the soldier back to their human selves. Then, Harry Potter asks for help to defeat the witches. He, Robin Hood, the soldier, the tooth fairy, Shehreyar, and Shehrezad get into a dabke circle and dance around the witches, who disappear with a poof as a result. Finally, the tooth fairy delivers gold to the villager with the missing tooth and all is well with the world!

a happy villager with a coin as big as her head!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a pic with the actors of the musalsal!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following dinner (Chinese!!!), some of our villagers and counselors gave a final performance of the songs they had been working with for the past week!

And that was it for the day! Thanks for tuning in!

all of the two-week villagers...

 

 

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