I'm very happy to say that so far school has gone very well indeed. When Eitan came home after the first day he said it wasn't really like school - it was more like camp!!! And he really meant it. I guess it can only be downhill from here. Luckily for the kids they are minor celebrities at school as everyone's very excited about their British accents. Neither their classmates nor their teachers can get their heads around the fact that they come from Israel but sound like they're British. It's really quite perplexing for them.
There has been a lot of excitement among the kids about riding on the adorable yellow school bus. Contrary to what most of us Brits think, these buses don't just exist on TV and many American schoolchildren actually go there and back to school on them every single day.
So it was with great anticipation that we walked down the road to the bus stop early on Wednesday morning. It is important to point out that this stop serves buses going to 3 different schools. Needless to say this expedition did not go exactly as planned, and despite being at the bus stop ten minutes early we cleverly managed to miss the bus. In our defence, the bus had the wrong school name and bus number on it, so we're still not quite sure how we were supposed to know. (The more perceptive among you may note the similarity between this episode and our inauspicious start to the trip at Heathrow. No need to dwell on that any further, thank you.)
As you can imagine the kids were none too pleased about this turn of events and were more than a tad angry at me. (It was obviously completely my fault.) I drove them to school and even got them there before the bus, but that didn't really help to allay their fury. They stomped into school rather less relaxed and excited than we had all hoped.
But here is a lovely photo I snapped of them in front of what turned out to be their bus, just before it drove away without them.
Thankfully the day picked up for them after that, and things have gone very smoothly so far. They're making friends and enjoying the incredible facilities at school. They are particularly impressed by the clean toilets. It doesn't take much...
In other news, we had a fun Labor Day weekend last weekend. Sunday was spent at a bizarre Renaissance Faire (jousting, archery, knife-throwing and all things "ye olde", and lots of grown adults dressed up as wenches, knights, Vikings and the like). And on Monday we all went boating on the lake at Central Park. Very wholesome.
That's pretty much all for now. I'll be starting work this week, which is great because I really can't face any more malls or supermarkets. It's weird though - with all the different shops I've been to, no cashiers have asked me what I intend to cook with a particular item, no-one has told me to save their place behind me in the queue, and no-one has "asked" to go in front of me because they "only have a few things, Toda Motek". It's going to take some getting used to.
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, Avrom is in fact here with us and he's doing fine thank you.
Anyway, have a great week and be in touch.
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