18. A Day in Haifa

Dear Emilee,

Mrs. C. computer was in the hospital for a few days, so I couldn’t write. I hope you did not miss my letters too much.

Nothing special happened. Mr. C. went to school, studied Hebrew at home, and painted some walls for Passover. Mrs. C. without the computer walked around the house like a caged lion, and the neighbours upstairs were renovating so the hammer and drill were shrieking down in the apartment. Yesterday, we all had enough of the noise, so we traveled to Haifa for the day

We came to Haifa with a ‘sherut’, an Israeli mode of transportation that I haven’t seen in Canada. It is a vehicle that seats 10, a size of a mini-van, and is running along the bus lines. So where the bus goes, it goes. Between Nahariya and the shuk in Haifa, the sherut is the most direct means of transportation. It is also faster since it stops only to let someone off or on.

We were in Haifa earlier during my stay, but we were in a different part of town. Yesterday, we walked slowly through the ‘shuk’. A shuk is an open market and many Israeli towns have them. There were many stands loaded with fresh fruits and vegetables; others with meat and poultry, some with fish. There were lots of clothes and shoes and some were just for bread and sweet baking while others sold nuts of every kind. .
The one in the picture is displaying all types of plastic ware. It is an interesting place to walk through. The shuk in Haifa is very clean.

We also found a McDonalds in Haifa! such a nice surprise. So we had a soft ice-cream there and we walked on and looked at some old synagogues downtown, and talked to Danny who manages a bible book store.










There is a Hamsin today, a hot wind from the desert full of sand and it is blowing dust into the clean house.

Your hot and a touch tired reporter
Flat Stanley