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| Yes, that is a sukkah at the beach |
And I was so excited that on the Tuesday after the holidays, the kids would go back to school and I would be able to start getting into a better routine with work, family and puppy. But oh no. Even though the holidays here ended Monday night, school does not begin until Wednesday. Sigh. One more day.... Currently my kids are fighting over laundry or something similar, whatever teens like to fight about.
Although technically, one child goes back to school at 3am tonight, aka he has a school trip that leaves from school at 3am. Well, once I heard that time, I pulled an Israeli move. I asked him to text his teacher (who lives on the street next to us) and ask him for a ride at 3am to school. So he did and hopefully that all works out. Because I am not a pleasant taxi driver at that time of night. I can pretty confidently say that
#1 - in our old schools in America, you don't text the teacher.
#2 you don't ask the teacher for a ride
Update, since I have been working on this blog for a while. The teacher then decided to walk to school at 2am, and told Eli they could walk together. But because my son is more Israeli than I will ever be, went on his class Whatsapp group to ask for a ride. And he got one.
Sukkot:
As usual I had big plans for all of the fun stuff we would do over the holiday break. But then real life got in the way, such as work, needing to cook, etc.. We did manage one day at the beach. Except the waves were the biggest I have ever seen in Israel, the black flags were out all day (no swimming) and everyone near us was smoking on the beach. The fun highlights were:
#1 intense frisbee game
#2 a random dog joining that game
#3 eavesdropping on a conversation where they said the word Jachnun (type of food) about 20 times in one minute
#4 hearing the lifeguards repeatedly getting on the speakers yelling to get out of the water
#5 why do people think underwear is a bathing suit?
Even though we did not have many sukkot adventures, we still had fun. My girls have been teaching the hubby how to cook. Now that I am working and my hours are always weird, they have all had to step up and take over for me sometimes. We also hosted a kiddush in our sukkah because we did it last year and it was fun, so why not?
And we also kicked off the girls' birthday month with a breakfast at a restaurant in a sukkah of course.
School!!!
Have I mentioned yet how nice it is that school is back in session? I can finally feel like my weird schedule at least gives me a bit of time alone. Of course, what do I do on basically their first day back? I schedule a meeting with their teachers since I cant make back to school night. Oh well, eventually I will get some free time.
Extracurricular Activities AKA Chugim
Yes, every year I say, we are only going to do a few activities this year, let's keep it low key. And then somehow I get myself into a pickle.
Let me begin with a recap of our life in the USA: Until we began homeschooling we did very few extras. They all did baseball which was a few months once a week or so. Once the girls took ballet at a community program, but it turned out that one just wanted to twirl in the back of the room alone and well, I let her do that for free at home. So that was short lived. Once we did swimming but that was a huge pain with all of the kids. And finally, we settled on taekwondo. Between their longer school hours and the cost of their schooling in the USA, we did not have time, money or energy for activities.
So this years schedule:
Boy #1 - scouts and guitar, but studying for a special school certificate in guitar so it will take up a lot more time I assume (he already spends all of his free time with the guitar anyway)
Girl #1 - scouts, taekwondo x2, one class locally and one on the team in Jerusalem. Hopefully she gets to travel this year if she keeps working hard. Remind me that I said hopefully when I come here to complain about her travelling.
Girl #2 - scouts and Netball and a special computer course
Boy #2 - this is apparently my activity addict
scouts, taekwondo, guitar and art classes and a once a week day away from school for some other classes run by the city
He also wanted to do gymnastics because apparently it is his lifelong dream to learn how to flip. But all of the gymnastics classes are twice a week and we do not have the time. I told him maybe next year? Because I also thought art classes were his lifelong dream. It is hard to keep up with the dreams. Also, I wish he would just take Flamenco dancing because honestly I think he would do really well. But oh well. Maybe next year.
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| Obviously the dog needs a selfie at well |
Work:
Work is good and I am still enjoying the job. But I think I have lost my understanding about the size of a normal baby. The other day I picked up a baby who was about 7 lbs and I was like, whoa, chubby, slow down on the milk intake! It will be another shift for me when they start training me for the more acute unit,. SO far the smallest baby I have held is probably 2.5 lbs +. But eventually I will work with the smaller and sicker babies. For now though, I am very happy with my job and I am so glad I decided to pursue my dream here in Israel.
Every day I speak Hebrew basically for 8.5 hours at work, but yet I still fear making phone calls in Hebrew. I have no idea why. I assume I will get over that one eventually. Please say yes.
Well, that is all for now. I guess it is good that nothing too crazy has happened to us recently. I am sure it will not be long until something strange occurs.
Bar Mitzvah
And in case you haven't heard from my mother, my youngest son's bar mitzvah is coming up. Let me know if you'll be in Israel just before Chanukah. Or just let me know if you will be in Israel at all. Flights go in and out every day of the week (ElAl only six days a week)We would love to see you and probably will try and convince you why you should live here.
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