I guess I have lost all my readers by now, but still - I am now on my winter/Christmas break, which means I have loads of time to answer all my long neglected mail, to finally furnish my study, to take care of my plants, to spend some time with my friends and with my family and - to write my blog.
I hope to start to write short posts regularly again. Today, let me update you on the last couple of weeks before I start to post short, witty and opinionated posts again.
The last weeks have brought only little new, which I consider very good news. I continue to teach at the school. I am so organised now that I can spare even 3-4 hours of free time every day, which is a very pleasant change. So far I have been using it - like all normal people - for meeting friends, going to the movies and spending time in coffee-houses reading. Recently it struck me that I should probably try to do something more organised and I decided to learn French. In fact, I made a public vow in front of several of my friends that by the time I am 30 I shall be able to spend my holidays in France speaking the local language. This was not a very wise public commitment. A-it is very difficult to accomplish, B- many of my friends consider it an unhealthy reaction to the partly interesting but largely frustrating shiduch marathon my dear and caring friend Shmil has prepared for me in the last three months. Be it as it may - I have the book, I have the tapes - we shall see what happens.
As far as the school is conserned - the teaching goes quite well. Apart from the usual stuff - this Chanukah we put up an all-in-Hebrew Chanukah play with the 1st and 2nd-graders. I was very proud of them, because we had been learning Hebrew together with them only for 3 months by the time of the play. It was a tremendous success, the parents were moved and the rabbi said we did a great job and I was enormously happy :-)
I have largely fixed the one but last room in my flat - my study - I have bought a new set of shelves in Ikea, which I all put together by myself (yey!). Now I only have to finish putting all the books and papers in it and I can move onto planning my terrace - wow - how very strangely adult and non-hip of me - an I growing old and boring?
Anyway, now I have ate least 9 more days of the holidays in front of me. The good thing about Christmas when you are Jewish is that you have all this extra free time and you dont have to do the holiday stuff that makes everybody else exhausted and over eaten - wonderfull. I have already done a lot of house and paperwork, I guess I have to save some time for fun too. We shall se how this goes. For the time being, I am off to my French text book. See you soon!
