National & Liberation Days

Currently Kuwait is celebrating two very important national holidays -- National Day and Liberation Day.  Due to February 25 and 26th being important days for the Kuwaiti people, we have been given a very long (5 day) weekend.  On Thursday our school hosted a celebration for all the students and staff to honor the great nation of Kuwait and their liberation from Iraq.  To show our support for the country we now call home, we headed out to our local convenience store to stock up on Kuwait attire.  Thursday morning we rolled into school ready to celebrate only to find our school awash in Kuwait flag colors and national dress (little 4 year olds in full dishdashas?  Yes please!).  We fully enjoyed the mayhem of the day and even more fully enjoyed the quitting bell ringing to signal the start of our five day weekend.  Happy Liberation, indeed.

Adam in his Kuwait polo.  One sleeve has an embroidered 25 and the other a 26.  Classy.

Heidi showing that we are all a piece of the Kuwait puzzle.  Despite her shirt being ridiculously ugly, it received a lot of compliments.

Some of the girls so very excited to celebrate the holidays.  Note:  not one of them is actually Kuwaiti but any excuse to wear fun clothes and eat excessive amounts of sugar at school is welcomed.

These second graders know how to rock their National/Liberation Day gear.

Heidi found her shirt twin. 

Little Mohammed.  He can't spell his full name yet but he can sing the national anthem like whoa!