Tomorrow is the last day of school, but I will be flying to America at 05:00, which means today was my last day of first grade. Many kids blessed me before I gave out gifts to my classmates.

Look what I can do:

Naomi and Halleli came with us after church, today. They are spending the night, but first we went to the zoo and had a picnic. I helped get things ready for our picnic before we went to church.

I got a special gift today: a pretty white dress. In our end of year program, we had to wear white. I didn’t have anything that fit that description, so Ima and Abba went shopping today. I’m so happy they found this dress. Abba said that this is the first of my end-of-school-year gifts. I [...]

We drove up the hill across from our building and then around the forest as our last ride in Abba’s truck.

I learned some new stuff today: ar-kee-olo-gee. This is what I found: It’s a piece of Crusader pottery that’s pretty cool. The first thing we had to do was wash the stuff so that we could sift through it, looking for treasures. The best treasure we found was the pottery piece above. After the wash, [...]

What a wonderful day we had  until, . . . I’ll get to that later. We started the day driving up Mt. Hermon to Israel’s only ski area. Along the way we saw these: The cows were inside the pen that you see above, but they were also outside the pen, wandering along the road. [...]

Abba’s plans for this day were messed up when he went to check on the truck this morning and found that the fuel line was broken. I really don’t know what that means, except that he had to have the truck taken to a shop a long way from here. The good thing about this [...]

For some days now, Ima and Abba have been telling me we are going somewhere to stay at a hotel, but the wouldn’t tell me where. They picked me up from school and off we went . . . on a loooooong drive that I thought would never end. “How much longer?” “Are we getting [...]