Thinking about thinking

Well I have not blogged in sometime now and for that I am sorry. I have been waiting on some sort of brain wave that will keep people reading. I failed to realize that if I do not write something once and a while then the 2 of you, thanks Mom and Dad, will stop reading. It has been a very hectic last few weeks with report cards and such, as I am sure every teacher you know has been whining about this for some time now. That is what we do best, so I am told...as the great Taylor Mali said, (google him if you have not heard of him before) the trouble with teachers is....those who can't do, teach...ha ha ha. side note: Taylor Mali is a former teacher now slam poet and a lot of his material comes from his former career...even poets get out of teaching...ha ha.

So we are on the verge of yet another holiday, I was planning on going to Thailand but as most know that the airport is not accepting planes right now so we have to change our plans at the last minute. It is fairly dissapointing but hey, we are able to go somewhere else and that I am happy about. School is going well, we as most people would agree with have too many holidays...YES a teacher has said we have too many holidays. I mean it is great that we get these days off but we have to have time to teach the kids too. That is why we became teachers, well some of us anyway, I do believe that there are people out there that do this for the holidays too. I will send out a blog when I get back from our break. I am this year staying in Dubai for Christmas. It will be very interesting I think. We have a lot of staff who are going to be here so I think we will be able to have a good bonding experience and get to know each other well. I sure miss being home for xmas, I think I will have to go back in the next year or two for the holiday to get my dose of snow and cold and most importantly family...

Oh, this last weekend was the 2008 Dubai 7s rugby tournament. I was a Referee for it again, it was huge. I was able to be on the main pitch for most of the IRB world series matches which was a great time. We got to meet some amazing people from different countries and see some great rugby. I took a ton of pictures and will get some on picasa in the next day or two. It was 3 days of rugby, from 8am to 10 pm at night, it was long tiring and great time, I look forward to next year!!

well that is about it for now...life is good, as per usual I miss a lot of people back home and think about everyone often. I am enjoying life a lot right now in Dubai, I think I will be here for a few more years, try to save some money and wait till the economy picks back up again in Canada before coming home...I am looking forward to that time too!

Have a great day

Curtis