Overcome your fears, or not.

It's been a while and y'all are probably desperate for an update.  You're probably thinking,  "What has Arielle been up to in ulpan?" Mostly same old same old.  But of course I have a few highlights.

First,  we officially live here now.  Because we hung up our sign.  Sorry neighbors,  you're stuck with us.  If you're wondering what that hole in the wall is,  we think it might be a warp zone to another time.

Word of the week: להתגבר.  It means to overcome something.  Remember this word.

First to my dear ulpan bestie.  We are seriously going to get either kicked out  of ulpan or promoted to the next class.  For example.  The class was doing something and we were working on something else because we were finished.  Anyway,  we come to one exercise,  where we had to write the conclusion of a sentence.  "I wish someone would invent....."  So she is next to me and talking to herself as usual.
(Back story.  She has some food allergies)  And I hear her say in Hebrew,  "I wish they would invent borekas" ,  and I turn to her and say,  "what,  without sesame???"  (because sesame is sprinkled over the entire country) Well,  as it turned out she had said  something about BRCA,  but that was it.  The two of us were busting it and could barely control ourselves.  And my wish for an invention wasn't so lofty.  I just want a robot to do my housework.  This is one example of a typical day for us.  Never fear though,  we are learning a lot.

The above photo is a tribute to Sofa Landwer,  my favorite government official.  Please come to the chanukat habayit in Modiin at my ulpan.  Today I promised my teacher that if you come,  I'll dance a hora.
https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=78

This week we started the celebration for hubby's birthday.  Yay,  now we are the same age again.  Since I really don't know how to shop here and the return policies aren't my style,  I don't shop unless absolutely necessary.  He got his birthday gift while I was in America.  You all hopefully remember what happened to keep the first time I went to the mall alone???  Of not  go back and re-read the early blogs,  especially if you enjoy laughing at idiotic things people (me) do.

Anyway,  in honor of his birthday,
 התגברתי על הפחד. I got over my fear and hit the mall.  That's right.  Because he doesn't really like cake but he loves  donuts.  This is true love.  And hallelujah its donut season here people.  Hide your diets and bring out your stretchy pants.

In other news,  the kids all went to a scouting event this week.  Two thousand religious scouts from all over Israel got together and did who knows what.  All I know is that my kids had a blast,  there was a bus there and it was near my house.  And I got a mini date with the hubby out of the deal.  Also,  hello,  2,000 Jewish kids just getting together on a weekday afternoon.  Amazing!  This is why we came!

Braved the supermarket again on a Thursday,  only because tomorrow there is some 10k run here in town and the streets are closed,  and I'm hosting a dessert gathering tomorrow night so I need food and booze and Krembo.

 It all was going so well at the market,  AKA  no one talked to me,  I found everything on my list,  and they had smiling cat cheese. I even picked a good line.  And then the cashier started in with the questions.  Dear everyone.  Stop asking me questions that aren't on the list of questions that I know.  I'm just going to pretend I understand and then answer No.  Because once in 1996 I didn't understand the falafel guy's questions so I kept saying yes.  Until I ended up with a falafel with harif.  So now I say No if I don't understand.  This isn't a great method FYI.  I definitely need to get over this part.
  לא התגברתי היום.  Tomorrow is another day though.  Someone please ask me questions that I understand. But at least I saw this at the market.  Whatever it is.