LACs for Middle Eastern Studies +Arabic

Grcxx3
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:22:21 +0000

ccgmom - one of the things that helped my boys when they moved from their VERY small international school to a BIG US public school was seeing familiar faces!

There weren’t many - just 3 fellow students (out of 2500) that they knew pretty well when we lived in Cairo. Two of the families are close friends of ours and we shared part of a holiday with the 3rd family. Just seeing kids “like them” (who had lived somewhere other than Houston!) was very comforting at times.

It also helped that 2 of the students were seniors who were quite popular (1 was a cheerleader, 1 was the cross-country team captain and school record holder)…so when these “Seniors” stopped and chatted with my sons in the hall, the other kids took notice and wanted to know HOW on earth they knew those kids! My sons actually found it quite amusing!