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Introducing
Mystery Class #6
Kuwait
City, Kuwait
29.350 N, 47.983 E
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Hello
from Al
Bayan Bilingual School in
Kuwait!!
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Our
School |
Our
school, Al Bayan Bilingual School
is a private co-educational school. We have two campuses located
in suburbs of Kuwait City, Kuwait.
One
campus, for the Pre School, is located in a suburb called Jabriya.
The second campus, for Elementary, Middle and High School, is in
Hawalli.
Here
at our school, the subjects of social studies, Islamic studies and
Arabic Language are taught in Arabic. The rest of the subjects are
taught in English.
Our
school was founded in 1977, and it has all grades from kindergarten
to grade 12. It is a non-profit Arab-English school.
Kuwait
is a cosmopolitan country and our students grow-up among people
from almost every country in the world.
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Our
City |
Kuwait
City is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. It has an estimated
population of 32,500 within city limits and 2.38 million in the
metropolitan area.
Kuwait
City has a very modern skyline. The tallest structure in the city
is a communications tower called Liberation Tower. It is very symbolic
because construction of this telecommunications tower started before
a military invasion by Iraq in 1990, and then construction had to
be suspended. After the defeat of Iraq, the tower was renamed to
celebrate our liberation.
Liberation
Tower in Kuwait City
Kuwait
City is located at the heart of the country on the shore of the
Persian Gulf, and it is the capital city of our emirate. As such,
this is where you will find most governmental offices, and the headquarters
of most Kuwaiti corporations and banks. It is the indisputable political,
cultural and economical center of the emirate.
Kuwait's
Parliment (Majlis Al-Umma)
This
is an area at the Al Kout Shopping Mall near Kuwait City.
This is a state of the art waterfront shopping mall. |
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And we even
have our own Hard Rock Cafe here in Kuwait City.
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Our
Country |
Kuwait
is an Islamic emirate in the Middle East, East of Saudi Arabia and
South of Iraq.
This
country is a peaceful country with one of the strongest economies
and currencies in the world. This is a photo of one of the mosques
here.
Because
we have virtually no natural source of fresh water here, the
fresh water was historically carted by dhow
(a fishing boat used in the region) from neighboring countries. |
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Now
we have very advanced desalination technology to provide water for
our country.
These
water towers can hold 4500m3 of water and the highest of the
three is 185m. |
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This
country's coastline boasts one of the northern most coral reefs
in the world. Although coral is usually extremely sensitive to temperature
change, these corals manage to survive the temperature fluctuations
in these waters throughout the year. Before the discovery of oil
in Kuwait, the Kuwaiti's used the coasts to be pearl divers ("lulu"
in Arabic) .
Kuwait
has long summers and short winters. The summers are usually blazing,
and temperatures can easily soar to about 50 degrees Celsius at
midday. The nights bring little relief when temperatures only drop
to about 45 degrees Celsius. Some winters are cold, for example
this winter (2007/8) was exceptionally cold as temperatures dropped
to about zero degrees Celsius in places. By the end of January temperatures
start picking-up again and bring relief to the bitter cold of winter.
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Would
You Like to Write to Us? |
Our grades 5 and 6 science students welcome any communication from
schools around the world. Feel free to write to us at: andre.brinders@bbs.edu.kw
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