Back to School (said with a smile on our faces)

See, we really are smiling!

After a very nice summer break, we are back in Tashkent. We arrived a few days before the first teacher meeting in order to re-acclimate to the heat and the driving. We were met at the airport by Jeanette's wonderful teaching assistant Lyuba and her husband. It was a wonderful welcome back to walk out into the heat and dust and see some familiar, smiling faces.

We just finished our first week of school, a short 3-day week. We got a happy surprise on Friday and were told that Monday was a holiday (Eid). We will have on of those "rolling start" years; a 3-day week, followed by a 4-day, then back to full weeks. Our kids are great, of course, and we also have some new colleagues who are equally wonderful. We are at the same grade levels as last year, Paul at 5th and Jeanette at 2nd.

Next week we get busier. Paul will be doing soccer tryouts all week long after school. He is coaching JV Girls soccer and will help out with all varsity and JV tryouts. Jeanette is taking an on-line course and is the new elementary science lead teacher, so she''ll be busy as well.

Other than trying to get back into our normal routine, not much else going on. Bon Cafe is still open, so a large part of our routine is already set :)

Hoping our friends and family around the world are doing well. We love to hear from you all, so please keep in touch.