{"id":43154,"date":"2015-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=43154"},"modified":"2023-05-23T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:08:33","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-back-to-school-season-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/43154\/a-beginners-guide-to-back-to-school-season-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to &#8216;Back to School&#8217; Season in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>The school bus is here. Wake up. <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagesmtv-a.akamaihd.net\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/happens-1431030233.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <b>Surrender to the traumatic effect of the annual backpack invasion.<\/b> It\u2019s all fun and games until you come across your first back-to-school billboard (also known as the official death of summer announcement) towards the end of August.  And if that doesn\u2019t do the trick, I\u2019m pretty sure the 378302 backpacks stacked up at the entrance of the nearest supermarket will.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tY48O-7LDwA\/UkrsODfjGfI\/AAAAAAAADuk\/bvMtLwcWugw\/s1600\/tumblr_mjcm2c8BFT1ql5yr7o1_400.gif\"width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <b>Complain about morning traffic.<\/b> It is no secret that complaining about traffic has become an integral part of our identity as Lebanese (alongside Fairuz, the cedars, and tabbouleh). And although roads are jammed year-round, the whining particularly intensifies during the month of September, where traffic basically becomes the conversational equivalent of weather talk (and a socially acceptable greeting by all means). <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.beirut.com\/GetImage3\/zaatar\/article\/43154\/490x300\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <b>Dramatically increase your daily intake of Zaatar.<\/b> According to the revolutionary logic of Lebanese mothers, Zaatar makes you smarter. And therefore you\u2019re bound to follow a Zaatar-only diet for the rest of the year, which may or may not be occasionally interrupted by manic episodes of Nesquik. Oh, and don\u2019t forget your milk.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/38.media.tumblr.com\/791bca4936c9e838322432eb077182f1\/tumblr_n1mqunQWQu1rqd0kpo1_r2_500.gif\"width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <b>Initiate passionate conversations about tuition increases.<\/b>  You might think being a parent is a perquisite for this one but, curiously enough, it isn\u2019t. Every Lebanese citizen is entitled to the noble right of condemning tuition increases at the start of every academic year. Add that to the traffic complaints and you\u2019ll get the perfect September conversation combo.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-h-pCwACgcRo\/VQ_bW0xGZCI\/AAAAAAAAFZg\/sxhK5b3jPK8\/s1600\/heatherchandler.gif\"width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <b>Unleash your teacher envy like no tomorrow.<\/b> Excuse my slightly Freudian inference, but throwing shade at the lifestyle of teachers is an absolute necessity here. Everyone is suddenly mad at school professors who, according to Lebanese Reasoning 101, shall be publicly condemned for the wrongful act of working less hours than most fellow humans. They also get to rest all summer (after a full academic year of sustained student-induced nervous breakdowns occasionally spiced by weeks of severe emotional suffering). What kind of felony is this? <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ak-hdl.buzzfed.com\/static\/enhanced\/webdr06\/2013\/8\/13\/6\/anigif_enhanced-buzz-25107-1376388788-17.gif\"width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <b>Spend your entire allowance on stationary you\u2019ll probably never use.<\/b> Because one simply cannot survive without the complete collection of Clairefontaine notebooks.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/12a790b6caaba0887a6003ba22efaeda\/tumblr_inline_nm7f97Lpqo1qboyyx.gif\"width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <b>Avoid social media during exam period.<\/b> Because your psychological wellbeing matters to us, we highly advise you to hibernate away from all social media platforms until the online whining period initiated by exams is officially over (well unless you\u2019re particularly interested in making your life a living hell).<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/2014\/08\/07\/022\/n\/1922398\/7b48aef21ede118c_kim-kardashian-strength-weaknessesoj5Fmb.xxxlarge\/i\/knowing-yourself.gif\"width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <b>Throw random academic advice at people.<\/b> The world desperately needs seasoned school survivors like you to enlighten younger masses on the most efficient studying methods (or cheating strategies if you\u2019re less fortunate) and you\u2019ve got to constantly maintain a strong \u2018been there, done that\u2019 attitude. It\u2019s time you establish yourself as a self-justified expert in all school subjects as it is absolutely normal for neighbors, younger relatives and even tweeps to come knocking at your door in times of complicated essays and indecipherable math problems.<\/big><\/p>\n<p> 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><big>The school bus is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":629374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"_lftp_listicle_injection":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[191],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-43154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","tag-things-to-do"],"authorship":[68],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Beginner&#039;s Guide to &#039;Back to School&#039; 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