Expat Life in Oman: A Letter To My Norwegian Grade 7 Class

Today, I decided to share a letter that I wrote to my old class back in Norway while living in Muscat, right before their Christmas break. It is a short letter, sharing a few words and pictures about what I had done the last weeks. Note, this was written in grade 7, and was originally written in Norwegian. However, I´ve translated it into English, the way I would have written it back then.

"Hi!

We just started Winter Break here in Oman. At the moment, we are making Christmas cookies. We have bought a plastic tree and decorated it, to get a tiny feeling of it actually being Christmas.

During the last three days of school we had Minicourses. We were placed in four different “classes”, where we did different activities throughout the day. One of mine was “Wadi hikes”.
(Left picture: one of the peaks we climbed. Right picture: one of the Wadis.)

(Here you have to keep your balance. On the left is a hot spring, while the wadi is a couple meters below on the right side.)

I participated in Wild Wadi Games, Just Bead It and Basic Arabic as well.

I have been watching all of the European Handball Championship games online. Doing so makes it feel a bit more like Christmas, especially winning!!

We have celebrated the national day and the Sultan´s anniversary. There has been held many parades because of this. We were able to get tickets for the children parade. It was amazing.