Sarah’s moving up to High School
A great day for Sarah
Sarah’s Great Day….
Today was the 8th grade Moving Up ceremony and Sarah was one of the 101 girls and boys from the American Embassy school who finished Middle School and are moving into High School next year.
The moving up goes with a big official ceremony in the school. We all noticed that Sarah was nervous about it , she pushed the family in the car one hour before the ceremony was about to start and we had no minute to loose…… she had a good reason to be nervous…..
She collected the most awards in the ceremony. When the three Middle School awards were distributed, she was the first to be called on the podium to receive the Service Award from her peers and the faculty for her commitment to serving others in the middle school community. We know that this award came from Sarah’s deep and sincere engagement to care for others.
The awards kept on coming as the ceremony progressed.
The Obama Presidential Award
We know that the award she really wanted was the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence. She previously got the award signed by George Bush while we were still in Harare. We framed it and called it the ‘JUBU’ prize. We knew that deep inside Sarah wanted that same very special award signed by this very special person, Barak Obama.
And yes…. she got the award for Outstanding Academic Excellence signed by Obama.
The ‘JUBU’ price helped us to get a seat in the American Embassy School here in Delhi and we know that a same award signed by Obama will be fostered in the family for a very long time. 
The award comes with a nice and personal letter from the President.
In addition the school created a new award this year, issued by the faculty. The Faculty Recognition Award, which is only given to a few students for outstanding achievements but also with a passion for learning. Sarah was the only one to get three of the awards, one for Algebra, one for Spanish and one for Science….
Useless to say that this was a great day for the family 
good job sarah!!! i am so happy for you
love you mucho mucho
Pookey
waw!!! and we could have celebrated all that… but then again, maybe one evening would not have been enough, congratulations dear Sarah! hope to see you soon (before you return to India). love, Anne, Paolo and Hindy