Wrapping Up Another Crazy Week

The good news is that the kids are in school. And they’re fairly happy there, so it seems. This new school is very different from the schools we had back when I was growing up.

Ron, the first-grader, can choose which subjects he wants to take. Math and Hebrew (reading and writing) are the only subjects that are mandatory. For the rest he will have to decide in a week’s time which “courses” he wants to take this semester. This week and next week, he can still try them out for size and see which suit him best. I really want him to take English, to get prepared for our trip (only six months from now!), and other than that, he can also take woodwork, history, lots of different classes in PE, and a few other subjects. To be honest, I feel that it may be a bit too much choice for such a young boy, but he’s having fun trying out the different classes, so we’ll see what it all boils down to in another week’s time.

Dan, in the adjoining kindergarten is just having fun, as well he should be. He’s actually joined Ron in a couple of classes, out of interest (kindergarten kids can choose to join classes if they want to) and he says he wants to take the history course too.

There is some bad news today too, a bit upsetting for me, actually. My mom phoned to tell us that they had a burglar come into her home. She lives with my 80 years old grandfather and my invalid uncle in the same apartment, so like IsraeliDad was saying, it was actually lucky that they never noticed anything and he only got away with her purse. You never know, when surprising a burglar how things might end, and he could have gotten violent. Still, she’s had quite a bit of cash in her purse, as she was getting ready to pay a loand, plus somehow, the theives managed to withdraw more cash from her bank account already. All in all, a loss of ten thousands shekels (about three thousand dollars), which is a lot of money for Mom, sigh.