Here Comes Barzani! Strike Up the Band and Make the Fireflies Dance!

Tomorrow is a big day for the school. The Prime Minister of Kurdistan is visiting along with 600 other "important" people/family members of important people. Real flowers sprayed with perfume have gone up around the school, and I watched today as the children held up giant Kurdistan flags and practiced their presentation of the national anthem. The funniest part of this whole charade is that they will be pulling out 15 or so kids from their regularly scheduled classes in order to stick them in the pool for when the PM walks by the sports arena. I suggested they throw some dolphins in there too, but dolphins are rather hard to come by here in Iraq.