Classic Car Show?!?!

Yesterday I found that there was a Classic Car Show in Kaust.

Today, I went to this Classic Car Show. It was amazing.

I'm not a huge car guru, so to an amateur like me the cars on display were definitely pleasing to the eye. In addition to the spectacular display of classic cars the location of the show was at the Marina right at the KAUST pier which sounds a bit odd, but it worked. You get to breathe in the fresh air from the sea while you walk through the cars and occasionally get a glimpse of one of the yachts at the Marina, and when you get tired just walk to the middle of the show and sit down grab a drink with the music.

It really was quite an experience, and a strange one to have in a university... but hey KAUST is so much more than a university :) and I must add that the 'party lights' weren't exactly reflected well in my photos, check them out:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55400677@N08/sets/72157626112665316/

SAIKAC

The secondary school here at KAUST is part of the Saudi Arabia Inter Kingdom Actiivites Conference (SAIKAC) which to me is definitely one of the most exciting aspects of the school.

SAIKAC is a conference of MANY schools around Saudi Arabia, it includes schools from Dammam, Dahran, Jeddah, Riyadh, Yanbu and more, and the activities offered by the SAIKAC conference is even more variegated. The activities range from, MUN to soccer to Coed Softball.

The KAUST Schools

I'm going to talk about Secondary School life here at KAUST in this post:

The Kaust Schools consists of 3 schools: kindergarten, primary and secondary. I'm an 11th grader in the secondary school and am part of the IB DP program, a universally recognised academic program, and an extremely rigorous one too.

The Secondary School goes from Grade 6 - 12, and holds around 180 students, which is really quite a small school. The number of students in each grade levels vastly differs, the largest is the 6th grade of around 30 students, and the smallest is the 12th grade, with 10 students. The 11th grade, which is the grade i'm in has approximately 25 students.

Regarding the population of the Student body, the vast majority of students are from a Arab Countries, and are Muslim, again the majority does differ between grades. In my grade, out of 12 boys I am the only non-arab boy which may seem quite 'shocking' for an international school, but really it's not something I even feel, I don't even feel like a 'minority'.

Oh, and I should also point out that within 1 school building, there are actually 2 schools being run at the same time, a Coed school and a girls school. The Girls schools consists of the more conservative Muslim students, most of them wear the abaya, hijab and the face mask and conversation between the boys in the Coed wing and the girls schools' students is very rare, but being part of the Student Council there are a few students I do communicate and work together with.

Academically, the Secondary School teaches the MYP course and then at 11th grade, there is an option of the IBDP or a KAUST diploma, which is essentially the same course as the IB but everything is internal.


I will talk more about the other aspects of my school in later posts.