That may all be very interesting to you but the biggest and most exciting thing that has happened to us is that our air freight arrived last week and our car arrived a few days ago and the rest of our stuff is scheduled to be delivered on Sunday. Yeah!!! Now, I can't drive our car yet - no plates, driver's license, insurance, etc. but it is physically here and that is the most difficult part. Habib, who was also our tour guide for the Mount of Olives tour, is the car man and he walks us through the registration process. I think I check my email every 10 minutes looking for instructions or updates from him. He probably thinks I'm crazy.
Julia's school started at the end of last month. It was a gradual start and she has progressively gotten better at going to school. Every morning we still have a little whining about going versus staying home and usually there is some whining about walking versus being carried but things are getting better. The drop off is actually the easiest part. She does a little clinging to me but is easily distracted by the teachers. The teachers are also helping more at distracting Julia as all the kids in general are getting better at drop-off and they are easier to manage as a group. This morning, for example, Olgi greeted us and knows that Julia likes the song, "You Are My Sunshine." Olgi knows the song and sang it with Julia a few days ago when Julia mentioned that her grandma used to sing it to her. So this morning Olgi greeted us and told Julia that she wanted to sing the song with her again and then draw the picture of the sunshine. Perfect! Hug and kiss and bye! Usually when I pick up Julia around 1:30 she is playing outside and doesn't want to leave. That's always a good sign in my book.
We had parent's night at Julia's school on Sunday. It was just her preschool class and not the entire school (ages 2-5). I got a booklet about the class and a list of the students in her class and all the parents' phone numbers, etc. Of course, I can't read any of it, but I'm meeting with a friend today who is going to skim it all and give me the summary of everything. The best thing that I got out of going to parent's night was the names of the kids in Julia's class. A very nice woman, Elyssa, sat next to me and tried to translate most things for me. She also sounded out the names so that I could write them down. The head teacher, Daphna, went over the different activities of the class: swimming lessons on Fridays, Music on Sundays, Judo on Mondays, Art on Wednesdays, field trips to the Science Museum, monthly trips to a farm, and family field trips planned by one of the moms in the class who is a travel agent. It sounds like so much fun! The discussion got a little heated when one parent started asking about the food that they served but Elyssa didn't translate all of that. The meeting started at 8:30pm on a Sunday. Brian stayed home with the kids. You would think that a meeting like that would last 45 minutes or an hour tops but at 10:15, Brian popped his head in the classroom just as I was about to come home. I had unfortunately forgotten my cell phone and when it got so late, Brian decided he had better check to make sure that I was ok. So with the kids fast asleep in bed and Bob at home to eat anyone that tried to break in, Brian walked the 5 minutes to school to come fine me. What a guy! He was not so happy with me for leaving my cell phone and I promised him I'd take it with me always.
Here's a photo of Julia on her first day of school.
Ok. Time to take a break. I'll keep going after a quick nap.
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