American Community School of Abu Dhabi

Here is basically the area of the school that I work at. ACS has a seperate building for the P.E. department, which is nice, this area consists of one large gym, and a small gym that has the rock wall in it. My office is in the small gym and that is where I will have a majority of my elementary P.E. classes, except when the heat subsides and we can go outside. We also have a six lane swimming pool. I will actually be coaching elementary swimming this fall. I will spend the entire fourth quarter in the pool teaching swim lessons to the students. We also have two large fields, one is grass, and the other is synthetic turf (this is the one pictured). The elementary school students have a couple of different playground areas on campus, the one pictured is the larger of the two and is between the P.E. building (on the right) and the elementary classrooms. Right now the school is under a lot of construction, so everything is very dusty and looks pretty dirty on the fields, but supposedly the construction workers will have everything done by the start of school on August 17th. I hope you are all doing well. Take Care:)

The Apartment

My apartment is very nice, it is 3 bedrooms (i only use 2), 3 bathrooms (i only use one), has a washer and dryer and a large living room area. It is all tile floor and has 2 very large bow windows.

I MADE IT!!!

Well I made it over in one piece with a little jet lag. Abu Dhabi is a very beautiful city, but is also very hot right now. Temps are usually around 105 to 109 degrees during the day and cool down to upper 80's to low 90's in the evening, which actually feels pretty good. The school is very nice, and the staff seems great. I think I will really enjoy the people I am working with. The pictures I have taken and posted are of my apartment and a couple of the school grounds. I havin't had a lot of time to scope out the city, but will add pics periodically. Hope all of you are doing well and I will try my best to keep this updated.