This past week as usual contained adventures, although none are too dramatic. We begin with a fun tiyul we did with ulpan. Someone else organized a trip to the Ayalon Institute, AKA the bullet factory. I won't spoil it for you, as you really need to see it for yourself. But I will tell you a bit about our trip. Okay, so we get there late because there is a lot of confusion over who is driving and who is hitchhiking (tremp in Hebrew)
So we arrive late and our adorable tour guide was waiting outside for us. He had been told to speak to us in easy Hebrew. Which basically meant he spoke about half as quickly as he normally would, which is still about 4x too quickly for us. But we managed. He was great, he translated a few words into English, etc... But now I'm going to the best part (about me of course). After the tour was over, a few of us were talking to him. He asked me how long I have been here and when I said four months, he said I was still in the package. After some confusion (on my part, duh) he explained he means like the packaging of a box, I'm still in the wrapper I'm so new. Okay then. More idioms to master.
Okay, so that was super fun. I've been suggesting about ten other trips to my teacher, but she isn't biting. I think we need a trip to the shuk. Maybe a tasting tour????
Then, I again have to master a trip to the orthodontist for two kids. Here are the basics. I'm way more confident in doctor's offices now than I was even a month ago. However, I'm basically going to be paying double for braces. Because here, phase one is cheap and phase two is expensive. And I believe it is the opposite in the USA. I've already paid for four kids in braces and I'm about to pay again. So you will need to visit me here because I won't be able to fly in the see anyone. My money will be tied up in metal wires. (see what I did there)
Youngest child celebrated a birthday last week. This included two nights of his favorite dinners and a chanukah themed cake for school. That was his request. Nailed it!!!
Finally, we make it to shabbat. Our kids have caught on to the fact that the adults go out to breakfast ALONE almost every Friday. So now they want to come. So we agreed to take them one at a time (and then go back to ditching them). One middle child was the first victim. I think she had fun, despite that fact that when you have two parents to yourself, you get asked a lot of questions. I think she was just in it for the hot chocolate.
On my end, I spoke in Hebrew to the waitstaff. Go me!!!
I am going to end this one here because Chanukah will deserve it own blog post or two. But first, a preview.
#1 I haven't seen one Xmas light or tree (not that I don't enjoy the lights, it's just awesome that my life isn't taken over with it)
#2 I don't shop so I haven't had to deal with mall crowds
#3 we aren't doing chanukah gifts for our kids so I really don't need to shop
#4 my oil wished me a happy holidays.
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