3. Second Day

It is dark, so dark, I cannot see my hand in front of my face… why are we all awake? Oh, Mr. C. turned on the lights. It is 06:00… we woke up this morning long before I finished sleeping. Mrs. C. left the house by 06:30 for an early appointment. “It is raining out, Honey” called Mr. C. after her. How did he know? It’s too dark to see.

I stayed home with Mr. C. We made the morning coffee and fried eggs – good breakfast! Then, we read the bible and checked the world news on the internet, and we settled on the balcony. Mr. C. is doing his homework, he studies Hebrew. That’s the language they speak in Israel.

I know Hebrew already. That’s the pleasure of being a flat paper doll, I know all the languages (smile). So I looked over the balcony. The cats and dogs are running free on the street for their morning walk. Children are on the way to school. School starts at 08:00 here. All the kids go alone to school. Their parents go to work. The little ones, like the kindergarten kids, are driven by cars or special buses, or their granparent or their older siblings accompany them, but by grade 2 that’s it, they all walk or take the bus or ride bicycles. By 07:30 the sun was up and the sky were baby blue with a little bit of white clouds. Like spring day.



Since Mr. and Mrs. C. don’t go to school, I don’t go either and I have no idea what they do there. Maybe the same as you do, Emilee, in Okotoks, Ablerta, Canada. But I know that they have recess and classes. I know that because we can hear the school bell. They don’t ring bells here, they play music. Some tune of a song instead of the old bell. And when someone has a birthday, they play “happy birthday to you” and everyone who can hear knows that someone at the school has a birthday. Neat.

My hosts are on their computers now. And I am just writing my notes to you. We are all waiting for Amir, the electrician, to get back from Acco where he buys the motor for the tris to fix it. I'll take a picture of it later when he is here, so you can see what a big job that is to fix it… for now…

Amir arrived at 09:00 and we took our picture so you can see. He worked on that broken tris for 2 hours. Big job. But now we can bring up these blinds and let the sunshine in.

Sheva, Mrs. C. friend from next door, came in for a chat. So we went to her place to see what she is cooking for lunch and she showed me the collection of all the great momentos she brought back from all the countries she had visited. These pieces are hand-carved woods from Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, Ecuador, and Thailand. Sheva and her husband Shuki love to travel. We might play a game of cards with them tonight if we are not too busy.



We went for a nap again, Mr. C. and I, in the afternoon. Mrs. C. emailed the blog to all her friends around the globe and some already wrote back to tell us how much they enjoy hearing about Flat Stanley adventures in Israel.

Here is one comment from a friend who read the blog :
"Hi Flat Stanley - I am Cathy, a friend of Mr. and Mrs. C. I live in Victoria on Vancouver Island.
It looks like you are having a wonderful time in Israel. I hope I can go and
visit Orith and Willie there too. Today I planted some flowers outside because our weather is extra-warm this year. We have had 6 lambs born this week and they are
hopping all over the place."

Bye for now.