Grade 9 in Lebanon is called Brevet. When a student takes final exams at the end of the year, he takes all the exams for the subjects in high school, as well as a government exam, kind of like the SOLs. The government exam consists of exams for: math, physics, chemistry, biology, french, arabic, writing, history, and geography. But over here, if you fail the government exams, you will repeat 9th grade, no excuses, EVEN IF YOU GOT A'S IN THE HIGH SCHOOL EXAMS. So, my cousin Salim passed his government exam and got promoted to the 10th grade. As a celebration my uncle and aunt made a typical Lebanese homemade dinner: chicken with cilantro, tabbouleh, homemade french fries, tuna salad, and a bunch of snacks like crackers and peanuts and fruit.
This is how we all sit and eat dinner together every night. I wish we can do this in America.
Notice the big tomato! :)
I have a picture of how green onions look like here, but it's on my Blackberry. I need to find a away to put it on my laptop. I swear the green onion is sooo long, probably longer than my hair!
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