We picked up the girls' school textbooks last week, and I just couldn't help myself: I took a quick peek at the Year 1 and Year 3 social studies books, the Year 2 version of which I enjoyed so much last year.
As I flipped through the pages of the Year 1 book, I noticed a chapter about People & Places. Since the book is published in Jordan, I thought, "hmm, I wonder if we've been to any of these places?" Just then, I flipped to a page about neighborhoods and saw this:
You guys, that place is called Gerard and it is the best ice cream shop ever, in the whole world! If that is the Abdoun branch (and I think that it is), then we were regulars there in 2006 and 2007.
The table looks a little different, and the angle is different, but those are the same benches for sure. That's almost-1-year-old Miriam there with me and our Jordanian friends (the one on the left is named Majd, by the way).
Anyway, Gerard is awesome (Kinder Bueno ice cream, anyone? How about Andes Mint?), and so is this social studies textbook. How often do you get to open up a schoolbook to a picture of a non-famous, non-landmark, and say, "yeah, I've been there"?
As I flipped through the pages of the Year 1 book, I noticed a chapter about People & Places. Since the book is published in Jordan, I thought, "hmm, I wonder if we've been to any of these places?" Just then, I flipped to a page about neighborhoods and saw this:
You guys, that place is called Gerard and it is the best ice cream shop ever, in the whole world! If that is the Abdoun branch (and I think that it is), then we were regulars there in 2006 and 2007.
Anyway, Gerard is awesome (Kinder Bueno ice cream, anyone? How about Andes Mint?), and so is this social studies textbook. How often do you get to open up a schoolbook to a picture of a non-famous, non-landmark, and say, "yeah, I've been there"?