January 25 2011 Scouts #2

This meeting we started with games
    The first game was a game where everyone had a cup of water, and we all played tag with them in one hand. The person with the most water won (the games were  just my group).
   The second was with the same cup of water. We were all in a train, with our left hand on the person in front of us and the cup in the other. Again the person with the most water won.
   The third game was the funnest.  We filled one cup of water up to the top. The rest of us held our empty cups in our mouths. The winner Opal, started. She held the cup with water in her mouth and poured it into the other person's cup without using her hands.  Then the person she passed it to poured it to the next girl and the next girl did the same.   When it got to the last person in the line, and 1/2 the water was gone, and three people were soaking (not including me) she poured it back into Opal's cup. We were laughing our heads off! Then we started different games.
We started things that we had to do that were hard, like one girl who was the shortest, had to touch the ring to the lowest basketball hoop, about 4 1/2 feet tall, with her foot. I had to slide down the banister with sitting on my butt backwards with people pulling my legs. It was very fun.
   

January 20- 21 2011 Jerusalem

                                            Jan.20
    Well,   
 today I taught 7 kids the A B C hand game (they didn't learn all the words). They all said "this is a long song" (which is the extent to their English).

                                       Jan.21

In Jerusalem  I went to Machane Yehudah and had a bunch of fun there. We saw a billion fruit stores, and two million other different stores selling all kinds of things like spices and cheese.

Afterward, as we were leaving, there were a bunch of people playing a small concert.  Three people were on stilts in Tu'B'Shvat costumes:

Bye for now

January 18 2011 Scouts

Today was the birthday party of Shira a girl in my class. It was a surprise party. Shira thought it was a regular tzofim (Israeli scouts) meeting, half of it was but the other was the party. I was at both halves of the party. At the tzofim part of the party, we danced and sand a song for the festival on the upcoming Saturday. The girls made a dance to the song We Will Rock You and made up other words in Hebrew. Then, we played some game I didn't really get called Sardini and Shira was chosen to be the person who counted.  When she was counting we all ran into the cafeteria where the party was taking place. While we were hiding in the cafeteria, she came in blindfolded and we all yelled "yom huledet sameach!"  Then we sang and ate cake and then we went home.
     

January 17 2011

Hey,
I'm gonno write about yesterday.
well, yesterday I was in the car (not driving). It was raining and I saw that the street was flooded. There was about 2 inches of water. We could see the water going over little rocks like mini waterfalls.It started to rain really hard and then we turned  the corner then the rain stopped. Just like that. And it didn't rain the rest of the ride.

january 14 2011

Hey,

Today when I opened the door to my classroom at school I heard a big pop of a balloon. I looked around and saw about 10 balloons floating around. People in my class were blowing balloons. 2 boys were cutting a big piece of string to hang balloons off of. Poped balloons were on the floor, and it was a mess!

  I soon found out that it was the birthday party of 3 kids who had birthdays  the next week .

Here are some pictures

 

         

                                        

january 13 2011

hey all,
today it was 100% windy.  When the wind blew, the dust would hit you hard in the face. and so at recess, playing names wasn't so fun. So, I went up to where some other girls in my class were doing something. When I got there, they said to me, we're playing kitchen. (in Hebrew) One girl named Shani, said why don't you help me with the salad? She handed me a branch and said, pick off the leaves and put them in here. So I did. 

A minute later, another girls, also named Shani, put some little brown balls into the salad. I thought the balls were chocolate, made of that powder that you put in hot water to make chocolate milk.  Then I thought, why would they put chocolate in the "salad?" Then a girl said to me, do you want to make the balls? I said, sure. So I walked up to where they were making the balls, and I saw they were made out of dirt. Not chocolate.
I was very glad I hadn't eaten one.

Jan. 11 2011

hey all,
 as you may know, I'm in Israel now.
It's very tiring to speak hebrew all day!
Today I played a game called names. Here's how to play:
            what you need:

  1.A basketball

  2.  at least 3 people

  how to play:
Throw ball to a player and say their name.The ball must bounce once. If the player catches the ball he/she throws to a player.If he/she does not catch the ball or the ball bounces twice, you lose a life.  When you lose three lives, the other players decide a name and don't tell you what it is.  Then you keep playing with your name being whatever they changed it to. Ex: before - Raizi; after - ketchup.

After school I went on a cable car from near my school down to the beach. Here are some pictures:

Down at the beach, we saw fishermen and when they caught a small fish they'd throw it to the waiting stray cats. Here are the cats eating the fish.