One of our favourite events here is National Day. This year is great because, since if falls on a Thursday and New Year falls early next week, we got a 4 day weekend.
At work, we had our "celebration" on Monday. The students dressed in their National colours and waved flags. The pride they have in being Emirati is so amazing. The entire assembly was in Arabic so I don't know what exactly was said, but it was obvious by the cheering that they adore all of the leaders of the country as well as the country itself. They always refer to Sheik Zayed who was the first ruler of the country as "Baba" Zayed which means "Father".
Zoe and Chase had their celebration at school on Wednesday. They had an entire day of assembly and carnival. Zoe participated in the assembly by playing her recorder in the performance. Since she is the grade representative for the Student Council, she also had to sell water for a while. For fun they had camel and pony rides, a jumping castle, and lots of things to buy. This year they highlighted the modern UAE and also had a display of 4 wheel drive and other sand vehicles.
On the actual National day we headed over to Mamzar area and joined in the excitement. Both the kids dressed in UAE National Dress. Zoe doesn't own an abaya, so she only had a shayla (head covering). We all enjoyed watching the decorated cars. Some put large decals of the sheiks over their entire car. Lots has small flag decals over the entire car, and of course flags of all sizes. Zoe and Chase had great fun spraying cars and people with silly string and spray snow. I think there was more spray snow here than I have ever seen in Canada!
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