School started on Sunday 23 September. The start has been alright, although things are not as well organised as the one back in England. The special adaptive school Athena and Yusef go to is about a twenty minute drive from home and a special taxi service is meant to take them, which is not quite sorted out yet, so Hossein is ferrying them back and forth.
The children are coping well with the lessons, but they have to do more than they had to do in England, which they don't like a lot. Athena is not very happy because she misses her friends, especially Mona, and there aren't many students she can make friends with, but she's doing well schoolwork-wise. However, they both enjoy spending time with their uncle's triplet girls, who will be three this week, and with their other cousins, so I suppose what you lose on the swings...
We've been rather busy over the last few days: apart from the ongoing preparations and shopping or the new flat, last Friday we went to visit Hossein's grandmother in hospital, before she, sadly, passed away on Saturday. So Sunday was taken up with the funeral, Tuesday with the third-day memorial service, while the seventh-day memorial service is planned for tomorrow, followed by iftar in uncle's Ali’s house...never a dull moment.
The work in the flat is progressing well. The painting is now well under way, so we hope that by next weekend (Eid ul Fitr) we will be ready to move in at last. We’ve stayed in Shabdolazim for six weeks and in temporary accommodation no. 2 for four weeks tomorrow (and counting). I am fed up with living out of a suitcase.
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