School Conferences and Updates

We recently had  parent-teacher conferences at the boys’ school. We arrived at school early so the boys could give us a tour of the playground, library, cafeteria, and snack bar before heading to their classes. 

The boys love visiting the library and the librarian let them each check out a book while we were there.

Both boys received great reports from their teachers. They are both doing well academically, they have made friends with the kids in their classes, and their teachers have enjoyed getting to know them.  We celebrated their accomplishments with simit (a turkish bread with sesame seeds on top), coffee, and juice from the snack bar afterwards. 

The boys have been such troopers this year. They started the first 7 weeks of school online, then they were able to start going to school twice a week. They loved meeting new friends and attending school in-person. The school arranged a schedule so half of the grades attended in-person twice a week (only grades K-5 were permitted to attend at this time), and the other half of the class attended the other two other days, with Friday being an online day for the entire school.  Attending part-time in person lasted for a month before the COVID cases here, like everywhere else in the world, began rising significantly and the Turkish government returned school to online until at least the remainder of the calendar year. Despite the challenges of moving to a new country in the midst of a pandemic, we are thankful for how well the boys are adjusting and how flexible and resilient they are. We are so proud of them.