We have heard rumors from the other famlies at the language school, that there is a nursery that will take foreign kids. Normally this is all tied to your passport/visa, but being a backwater town, I guess this place is getting away with it for now.
I haven't really considered putting Lj in nursery school until coming here and realizing that she needs more interaction than I can really give her, and with another baby on the way in a few weeks, maybe it would be good too look at some options.
I realize that in the US this can be a major deal for people - the expense, the choices, the location etc etc. One of the things I love about life here is the simplicity. There is only one place! It costs about $3.5 per hour or about $100 for 5 full days a week. I'm not kidding. I felt like telling her "honey - you could charge five times that amount and us foreigners would still pay you!!" Of course that would come out a little differently in Arabic....
It is located in a two story villa - meaning house. villa is just the word we use here. It is for kids 0-5 years of age and she currently has 20 kids with three staff. Two learning rooms, a TV room, two play rooms and a place for babies. No shortage of loving on kids and I'm sure a ton of sugary snacks (= I was initially against having Lj in there every day thinking she didn't really need that much, but we might do two hours a day. It would give her something of her own after the baby is born and the added bonus of the arabic learning would be FABULOUS. Of course, we don't know how long all this will last given the border and the state of flux our life is in, but we're just settling on this for now.
We have heard rumors from the other famlies at the language school, that there is a nursery that will take foreign kids. Normally this is all tied to your passport/visa, but being a backwater town, I guess this place is getting away with it for now.
I haven't really considered putting Lj in nursery school until coming here and realizing that she needs more interaction than I can really give her, and with another baby on the way in a few weeks, maybe it would be good too look at some options.
I realize that in the US this can be a major deal for people - the expense, the choices, the location etc etc. One of the things I love about life here is the simplicity. There is only one place! It costs about $3.5 per hour or about $100 for 5 full days a week. I'm not kidding. I felt like telling her "honey - you could charge five times that amount and us foreigners would still pay you!!" Of course that would come out a little differently in Arabic....
It is located in a two story villa - meaning house. villa is just the word we use here. It is for kids 0-5 years of age and she currently has 20 kids with three staff. Two learning rooms, a TV room, two play rooms and a place for babies. No shortage of loving on kids and I'm sure a ton of sugary snacks (= I was initially against having Lj in there every day thinking she didn't really need that much, but we might do two hours a day. It would give her something of her own after the baby is born and the added bonus of the arabic learning would be FABULOUS. Of course, we don't know how long all this will last given the border and the state of flux our life is in, but we're just settling on this for now. 
3 comments:
how adorable!! :) thanks for the great pictures!! what did Layla think? I'm not sure where the school is at with potty training, but maybe you can use that as an incentive. That if she uses the potty she can go to school. don't know how that all works with the timing of everything and where she's at with potty training... how cute! Is it near your place?
loves! Thanks for the skype call today!
glad you found the time to go check this out. hope it works out.
LOVING these posts! I have been starting to think through all these things and it is great to learn through your experience!
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