Mac Moments

For my family and friends who really want to keep up with the McClan's comings and goings :-) So best I get on with trying to recap October before it is ancient history... as November has crept up on us so swiftly with the feeling that it will be over before I can even catch my breath, so October has left us sweetly in the dust. I am so thankful for the fact that I am camera happy and take photos of every event in the kids lives, if I did not have this nasty little habit of being the one saying smile, cheese, look here, I am sure we would forget what we have done each month. Steve often comes wafting into the front door, with a "Hi, how was your day? What did you do today?" and I go "Huh, what the..." and have to sit down and really think hard about what the heck I have done. And so goes my life, one long running day after another, when often I sit and reflect and figure that the days are going by so quickly I am loosing track of them all. So via my photos col...

The new gem in the Arabian Gulf is a world of music and culture. Sean and Jess have been invited to audition to be some of the first students to participate in a free 6 month course at the academy, before it opens its' doors in September 2011 as a fully functional Academic and Music School. The Qatar Foundation has created an environment of learning for the people living within Qatar, this includes Education, Science and Research and Community Development. Here is the link to the school: Qatar Music Academy The school is described by Dr. Abdul Ghafour Al Heeti Acting Dean, Qatar Music Academy as such : QMA is a ground-breaking institution that will produce professional musicians in both classical Arabic and Western music. It aims to be the leader in various fields of music including teaching, orchestra performance, musicology and Inshad (religious singing). The academic programme of QMA has been developed to provide a comprehensive education that will enable students to eventua...