Silence continues

This is my third day of being speechless. It is a very interesting experience. People are actually very nice to you when you have such a handicap. They smile at you, they are evry helpful and they wish you all the best. The bad thing is that when you need somebody to move in a crowded bus you have to touch them and whisper into their ear, which not many people interpret the way you mean it. Well well. I am abck at school today whispering to all my students, who find it absolutely amusing. Great. In the evening I am heading for the Paideia alumni conference. I will be silent again. Well, scilence is golden, isn´t it?

Second day without a sound

This is my second day of being speechless, literary. I can´t talk, I lost even the last trace of my voice. I know very well that this is a sign of me working too much. Yesterday, after the meeting with the parents during which I whispered only, my boss asked me to stay at home today, which I am happily doing now taking care of all the paper work I have not been able to do during the past couple of days. I am horrified to see that I have become a burn out victim of my own work. I have become the kind of person you read about in life style magazines. Scary. But ayway, today, my long time Israeli friend Aviad is soming to Prague so that´s something to be cheerfull about. We wont be able to talk - we will have to write to each other. But still, I hope it will be fun!

And the final silence

Ok, here we go - today I lost my voice. Completely. My exhausted body uses every possible way of showing me that I should slow down. Tomorrow, we are having a parent meeting at school - I am going to whisper to the parents :-) isn´t that fun?

Israel, yes!

I have just learnt I was granted a Legacy Heritage Scholarship for Jewish professionals for this summer, which will make it possible for me to attend the summer program of the Conservative Yeshiva. Yes, indeed, I am a Jewish professional and let me add I am a very depressed and tired one. But I am glad that thanks to my job which I am starting to be very negative about just because I have very little energy to carry on I will be able to go to Jerusalem. Akhlah:-) Happy independence day! (Oh, my - cant I write something more optimistic?)

Stripping for feelings on blog

Two weeks ago I read a very interesting article in the papers about the phenomenon of blogs. The author of the article wandered how come people are willing to share their very intimate feelings with others. Well, I have no idea how this is possible either but I will share a few insights with you again.

I still owe you a post about my (work) trip to London - well - it was wonderful to be in the UK again. The moment I landed I realized how much I have missed it. I went there just for 3 days and I worked all the time. I managed to meet my Oxford friend Daniel Kleinberg for a short breakfast and to my great regret missed both Lena and Natalia, two friends of mine from Sweden who currently live in London. The trip was great but it was one of the last drops of the overfloating cups of my tiredness. For a month now I have been thinking wether to tell you about how knackered I am after the US, London, Poland last week and especially Pesach. I decided not to strip my tiredness and bore you with my breakdowns but - I am really really really - oh G-d how much I wish I had a week of normal sleep.

Anyway - next time I will be more cheerful.

Happy Pesach!

Exodus 14:21 "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided."

Those that know to play, never grow old:-) Have a peaceful Pesach!