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IC students go to Norway
Eighteen students, accompanied by Head of Activities, Community Service and Drama, Riad Chirazi, traveled to Norway in January
as part of a week-long theater exchange program between IC – IB and Polarsirkelen Videregående Skole at MO I Rana in northern
Norway.
The trip was sponsored by Friendship North South – a Norwegian NGO that sponsors cultural exchange programs between Norway
and other countries.
Chirazi and his Norwegian coun-
terparts conducted several work-
shops for the students. “We gave
each group several stimuli that will
inspire them to produce a perfor-
mance,” he said. “The results were
outstanding.”
At the end of their stay, students
from both schools put on a theatri-
cal production together.
Later that night, Lebanese students
got to work by preparing a Lebanese
feast for their Norwegian hosts,
introducing them to the delectable
tastes of Lebanese cuisine.
On another interesting note, Chirazi
and the students were put up in
an apartment that was “used as a
shelter in WWII!” he said.
Norwegian students will be visiting
and attending theatrical workshops
at IC in June.
METS U18 Football Tournament
IC teachers and students alike have come to the
consensus that the METS football tournament
was definitely one of the most entertaining,
intense, and exhilarating sports event in recent
IC history. During classes, one would invariably
hear the rhythmic beat of the dirbakeh and the
wild cheers of the crowd.The moment the bell
rang for recess, every inch of the football field
was filled with enthusiastic fans. A general feel
of unsuppressed excitement hung in the air--
even teachers were whispering the scores of the
games while passing each other in the hallways.
METS (Middle East Triangle Sports) is an
annual tournament hosted by a different Middle
Eastern country every year. Lebanon was hon-
ored to host it this year as Head of Athletics
Tarek Mousally from IC and Tim Doran from
ACS worked side by side to coordinate the many
details involving the six teams that participated
this year. IC and ACS represented Lebanon; ICARDA came from Aleppo, Syria; King’s Academy and ABS joined us from Amman,
Jordan; and the SCHUTZ team traveled all the way from Alexandria, Egypt.
The final results for both boys’ and girls’ teams were ACS in first place, IC in second, and King’s Academy in third.
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SPRING
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