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Hi! I'm writing to you from my new apartment in Tel Aviv! We moved in a week ago, and I have to say that the apartment is great. It is in the absolute center of Tel Aviv, 5 minutes to the beach, the main shopping areas, all the buses, and plenty of cafes, restaurants, bars and grocery stores all within short walking distances. The kitchen and living room were just restored, so all the kitchen is brand new and theres a couch and tv and even a dvd player! It is really great. I"m sharing a room with the other american girl in my group, Erica, who I also happen to be working with (we spend lots of time together because of these 2 things).
welcome to shalom aleichem
Leah Schneier2006-11-13 10:51:02
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Hi! I'm writing to you from my new apartment in Tel Aviv! We moved in a week ago, and I have to say that the apartment is great. It is in the absolute center of Tel Aviv, 5 minutes to the beach, the main shopping areas, all the buses, and plenty of cafes, restaurants, bars and grocery stores all within short walking distances. The kitchen and living room were just restored, so all the kitchen is brand new and theres a couch and tv and even a dvd player! It is really great. I"m sharing a room with the other american girl in my group, Erica, who I also happen to be working with (we spend lots of time together because of these 2 things).
So, everyone has been asking me, what about work?! Well, here's what... I haven't really started yet. I'm going to be working at 4 different schools/learning centers with kids who have trouble in school, and are having trouble learning english (which is a required subject to graduate highschool). The kids are not from great backgrounds, meaning poorer families, mostly from Ethiopian families, and also Russian families. So, I'm working with highschool students (I finally get to work with teenagers!). The problem is, since I'm working at 4 different schools, that means 4 different program directors, and 4 different teachers to meet with and work with to decide what exactly they want me to, because they all need different things for their students. So last week, I met with 2 different program directors, and the meeting went very well, and we've come up with some good ideas for the programs. Today, I went to one of the schools, to meet the students and just observe the normal classroom behavior and way of learning, etc. So its all going well, just everything is coming together very slowly. I hope that we'll be working more next week. Everything in Israel is disorganized and slow like this, and because they want us working at 4 different schools, it seems to be going even slower.
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