Day 7: First day of the week, Sunday? Meh.

It's been almost a week! Time flies. Here I was in Miami enjoying my routine and my time with Sean and his family, only to find myself flying back to Turkey in November, filled with worries, and now I'm in Israel, trying to be as productive as I can, take good advantage of living in a Mediterranean village, spending winter as if it's spring time, meet as many people as I can, and build my way back to the States. Is it going to happen? I don't know.

But it's Sunday, and on Sundays people start working here. It's the first day of the week. If I don't think about what it is, I think it's going to work for me as well. Because I went to bed late last night and because of that I couldn't wake up early enough to find time to train before going to school. So, I rushed to get to SFP and finish up the Turkish brochure I was working on. I did, finally, and then worked on some videos and pictures I took. Yael said she would love it if I take more pictures in the future. I think this is or will be a good opportunity for me to propose my idea of making a film. She also showed me the library of the school. Amazing books in they have in there! Most importantly, the majority of the books are in English. Books on International Law, Women's Studies, Arab-Israeli conflict, conflict resolution, peace studies and many more. I took the liberty to give myself an assignment of reorganizing the library. In the mean time, I'll become more familiar with the books there and this way I'll get into my own research. While I was planning the rest of the week, Adan came in. With him he had Marva, Fatin's daughter whose English is very poor but she made it very clear to me that she wanted to train capoeira. :) I don't how many times she repeated the word: capoeira. All right, I said, let's train a little bit. So we did, then I appointed Adan as my assistant (hehe) and had him teach Marva how to do the ginga. He took very seriously, which he should have! ;) After Marva and her mom left, Adan and I worked on his quixadas and armadas. He's talented, smart, and flexible. This last one could be because he is only 7. As long as he is interested and willing to learn more, I think it's a great age to start. Again when he was having trouble explaining himself to me, we used the online dictionary and papers. He likes writing down some of the words he utters in English. I realized that since his Hebrew and Arabic are his two primary languages, he tends to write from right to left, in English as well. Not just that, but he inverts the letters too. I did showed him the right way to write in English though.

Sooooooon after I went home and couldn't help but washed all the dishes in the sink. It was gross. I told everybody that it'd be better if we wash whatever dish we use as soon as we're done instead of piling them on the counter. We'll see how that works. Anywho, I fed myself AND the cats. So good that they stopped yelling at me. :) I love them. Gotta get to bed early tonight so that I can wake up early, train, and go to work, and not be a lazyhead.