Guests and Fancy Fundraisers

We had another busy week this past week. Thursday night we had a fancy fundraising dinner for school at the Phoenicia Hotel. The fundraiser was fun because we were able to see so many different parents out to support the school. ACS is raising money for a new playground, and with this one event they raised over $119,000! There was a raffle with over 20 great prizes, and I won a Roberto Cavalli clutch! Anything to help the school! 

Ryan hosted a conference for Art, Music and Theatre teachers in our Oasis Conference this week to develop an Arts festival they will be hosting next year. We were able to host one of the teachers, who is originally from California but now teaches in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was fun to show him around and to compare our experience to his so far. Ryan also had a basketball game and his team won again. They beat our rival IC, so it was a pretty big deal. He has a team of all 9th graders, besides two 10th graders and they have some real talent. Ryan also has started an Instagram account for ACS sports and Activities. If you use Instagram, you should check it out @acsbeirut_sports_activities.

We also had some fun news this week. Our friend AnnMarie from Chicago, has a daughter, Kaitlin, who is a senior at the University of Chicago Lab school. She has May off to do a senior project, and she asked if she can come stay with us for 2 weeks! We are so excited for her to come, and we already have so many things we can't wait to show her.