Last Days of Elementary School in the Middle East

Briouats – A Favorite Food at Our Middle Eastern Class Parties!

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Briouats are triangle-shaped filo pastries, which when served here are usually filled with shrimp and vermicille (hair-fine spaghetti), or with cheese, sometimes with a mixture of cinnamon-spiced ground beef or lamb, and scrambled egg.

Our last week of school is a bit different than in United States schools. I read some schools have Field Day on the last day. Here it would be too hot to have Field Day in June. We have that in early April. We always have a show the last day of term. All the classes sing a song or two for the parents,. Some classes do a poem, a skit (short play) in English , or something else. We also have short Arabic plays and French plays. Our students come late, at 10:30, and by 12:30, are going home with their report cards.

Usually the day before this show, most of us have class parties. Students bring in gargantuan feasts of pizza, briouats (pronounced bree-watts), chicken, Chinese food, custard fruit tarts, lasagne, spagetti, pannnini or whatever their favorite foods were.

For tomorrow’s party, my third-graders were supposed to be having ancient Roman foods. But my students’ parents mostly didn’t follow through with searching out ancient Roman recipes on the internet. So I suggested yesterday that we dress in our togas, and pretend we are introducing the ancient Romans to our modern favorite foods. Some kids are haivng togas made, other kids are bringing sheets, and probably some kids will just be in school uniforms. The party’s tomorrow. Expect a post of mouth-watering pictures in the next day or two!

Eileen

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