My new hobby

I am taking a class at a bead store here in Tel Aviv. It's a beginners class, and teaches how to make jewelry of various sorts. It wasn't all that expensive at all, and it has been EXTREMELY helpful for me, for a whole variety of reasons. It gives me something to do that is calming, relaxing, and has absolutely NOTHING to do with teaching English or TASP. So beware, for many of you will probably be receiving Christmas gifts of the beaded kind.



Realistically, nothing is going on at all. I haven't had school at all this week, thanks to the breaking of the Ramadan fast. I'm hoping people at my school will be more cheerful in general now that they can eat during the day. I know I'll be happier. And now the students can't dupe me into having class in one of the empty downstairs hallways because they're too tired and hungry to climb a flight of stairs - the whiners! :)



Anyway though, I've decorated my apartment for christmas, and that's pretty much it. I did manage to find a small fake Christmas tree, so I didn't have to tape ghetto fabulous garland to my walls. And I've decided that on our stockings, my name and Daive's name will be written in English and Hebrew. What if Santa is monolingual and only knows Hebrew? It's so stupid, I know, but when I said that to one of my friends I laughed for ages. I'm currently attempting to do an assignment for one of my University classes tomorrow, and I'm finding that the Israeli government's website is as difficult to maneuver in as the country itself is. Go figure. It's exhausting my patience though, so I'm going to go before I have to start using foul language. Night all.