LEAP is a wonderful project which Niki started about 3 years ago – Ladies Ethiopian Art Project, in Ashkelon. This gives a group of ladies, who cannot work outside the home, for various reasons, the chance to do something to bring in a little extra income, and at the same time it builds up their self esteem and also gives them the added value of being a part of the group. The whole project is very interesting, and I will write more about it later – when I am more involved.
I'll be helping Niki coordinate the group, starting off with a few hours while Niki continues with a lot of the work and will slowly take over more of her hours, freeing up her time for some of her other endeavors. I'm really excited about this!
Monday is the day that Shiraz finishes school early, so after we finished there I had to run and fetch her. I hadn't made lunch for the girls (were at a Bar Mitzvah the night before) and I hadn't planned to be out all morning, so my parents and I took the girls to the Marina for lunch. As usual the food was great, and the girls had a really good time. It was also really hot, like a summer's day. We had fun throwing bread down to the fish and watching them fight over it, there are so many different sizes of fish there (though they all look the same to me).
Yesterday I was very productive in the kitchen, besides making the meals I made some breads and granola (yes, I have some for dad), and today is Wednesday, so it is our baking day, we made brownies (again!) – heart shaped ones.
(of course I had to show a picture of the bread)
We visited the Baltimore Park, here in Ashkelon, for the first time yesterday, we met Lilach and Sheked there, and of course much fun was had by all.
Today was Shiraz's first math test – we didn't prepare for it, as she knows all the material that they covered. She came home feeling good about it and said that she definitely got 100 – let's hope so!
This morning at about 9:00 DH and I were both home working, a siren went off. A qassam rocket hit Ashkelon. Of course it came as a surprise (though it shouldn't really) after the long quite period, and I just wanted to go to the school and see that Shiraz was ok. I know that they have had drills and so they know what to do, but that wasn't real time! I knew that Meshi would be ok, as she wasn't really somewhere new, and of course Ben wouldn't know what was going on. I spoke to his care taker and she said that the little ones didn’t know what had happened. Both girls were ok when I picked them up and they didn't make much of it – Shiraz's teacher wrote about it on their daily homework page, she said that they were very good and grown up. I hope that this doesn't become a permanent subject on my blog!
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