Ulpan is OVER, now what??

Well, that’s it, ulpan is officially over!  I am finished.  I have learned all the Hebrew that I am going to be learning from a classroom and the rest is up to me to do on my own.  Good luck to me.  We learned for the first half and then we had a party.  It was nice.  I have no idea what I am going to be doing with my mornings now.  I am more than a little worried about it too!!  We’ll see if anything develops in that area.

The weather here today was crazy.  It must have been in the 80s but it was cloudy the whole day with this warm breeze.  After we picked Ben up from school we went to the playground on the way home for half an hour and then we went home, ate lunch and played in the backyard for a long time. 

Ben brought home a flower to plant in honor of Tu B’Shvat and we planted it and it was so nice that we decided to stay outside.  Of course Keren wasn’t content to play inside when she saw us out there so Eric brought her out and Ben and I played catch and basketball until Talia came home.  Then we all kind of hung out outside playing.  Keren was eating every rock in sight, she apparently loves their texture.  There was one unfortunate incident where instead of a rock she ate bird doody.  I am hoping she doesn’t get sick.  I was able to scoop it out but I am not sure how much she swallowed, if any.  I know, GROSS!!

A little before 4 Talia and I took Ben to his karate class, the two of them on their bikes and me by foot.  Ben is really getting a hang of it now.  He can ride up a hill really well, which is important here in the Chash where there are tons of hills.  Talia wound up hanging out at school instead of coming home with me.  I ran home and made dinner and then ran back to get them.  I came for the last couple minutes of karate and I am definitely going to go back and video tape it a little so I can put it up on the blog.  He was so adorable.  Apparently I had just missed him landing head first into the bulls-eye that they were supposed to be kicking.  I was told it was so funny and he did it twice.  Next time…

So tomorrow is election day!!  We are going to be voting!!  So exciting.  First time voting in Israel.  Actually, it is my first time voting at all.   The kids have off tomorrow and we are getting together with Avivt and Avi and if the weather holds out we’ll go to the monkey park that is close by.  I am sure it will rain and we’ll get stuck inside.  It hasn’t rained in weeks and weeks, perhaps a month, but I am sure that tomorrow it will since I really want it to be nice tomorrow.

This is the cutest video of Talia singing an oldie but a goodie:  “Od Lo Ahavti Dai”