November 28, 2001

Members of the schools English Club.

The English Club seems to be gathering more steam when it's not meeting than when it is. More and more students have shown interest, and the interviews have been proceeding full speed. The students who didn't get photographed last time even re-staged their interviews for the benefit of the camera. We're hoping the newspaper will be ready in time to send for Christmas - n'sha'allah (literally, "God willing", but is often used to mean, "I sure hope so").

Our German neighbors are headed home soon.

Marthame's nursing a cold, so Elizabeth went on a walk with our German neighbors. They're leaving soon - it was supposed to be today, but all passenger ships from Haifa have been cancelled, and they can't get onto a freighter until next week. (They have to go that way because they're taking their car, too.) That gives us a little more time to see them before they take off and the ex-pat numbers begin to dwindle a bit.