While Michelle is with Dalia, Eshel and I go on our own hike...
Friday, February 4, 2011
Shomrey Ha Gan
This year Michelle is going to shomrey hagan (garden keepers). They walk in the woods, look at different insects, footprints and play a lot. In the end there is always a fire, food and songs. Dalia is the "teacher" and all the kids love her!
While Michelle is with Dalia, Eshel and I go on our own hike...
Eshel is ready to go...
I love flowers, this year there was not enough rain and so the flowers are very rare... I hope soon we'll see all those colors.
Ants - Eshel can spend LOTS of time looking at ants
Wild boars were here at night... After the fire on Carmel the boars are concentrated in green areas and there is almost no food for them....
Sheep were here too
While Michelle is with Dalia, Eshel and I go on our own hike...
Monday, January 31, 2011
I am 29
It was my b-day ... a long time ago and now I want to write about it.
Remember how when you're a kid, your birthday is a very special day... I mean, you wait for this day the whole year and then it comes... so bright, happy,glorious.
It is still a happy day, just not so special anymore. We went to Rosh HaNikra and this is what we saw...
Grottos with beautifully blue sea ... so calm and yet so powerful.
Remember how when you're a kid, your birthday is a very special day... I mean, you wait for this day the whole year and then it comes... so bright, happy,glorious.
It is still a happy day, just not so special anymore. We went to Rosh HaNikra and this is what we saw...
Grottos with beautifully blue sea ... so calm and yet so powerful.
And yet again I have lost the perspective and stopped writing. So why write the blog?
It gives me an opportunity to see how I develop and to reflect on some of the things I do. It gives me memories that I cherish ... when I write I also remember. We read the blog with the kids and it's like reliving the moments anew....
But when it comes to writing... I always find more important thing to do at night when the kids go to sleep... like read, study, clean ..etc. I'll try to write for maybe 1/2 an hour and then do the rest... (it's not that I get enough sleep anyway if I don't write!)
It gives me an opportunity to see how I develop and to reflect on some of the things I do. It gives me memories that I cherish ... when I write I also remember. We read the blog with the kids and it's like reliving the moments anew....
But when it comes to writing... I always find more important thing to do at night when the kids go to sleep... like read, study, clean ..etc. I'll try to write for maybe 1/2 an hour and then do the rest... (it's not that I get enough sleep anyway if I don't write!)
Friday, December 17, 2010
Bat Galim Garden
We started working every wednesday in the community garden in Bat Galim.
I was amazed to find out that the municipality actually buys all the tools, the soil and the seeds. The municipality also pays a person to work there a couple of days a week and supports the garden with everything that is needed. People working in the garden are young people who are concerned about the ecological and social condition of the country as well as educational system.
The Bat Galim neighborhood is a poor Jewish neighborhood in Haifa. The violence and crime statisticsis are very high and it is very nice to see young people making a garden together with the children and adults from the neighborhood.
For more info on the community garden in Bat Galim visit community garden Bat Galim Facebook
I was amazed to find out that the municipality actually buys all the tools, the soil and the seeds. The municipality also pays a person to work there a couple of days a week and supports the garden with everything that is needed. People working in the garden are young people who are concerned about the ecological and social condition of the country as well as educational system.
The Bat Galim neighborhood is a poor Jewish neighborhood in Haifa. The violence and crime statisticsis are very high and it is very nice to see young people making a garden together with the children and adults from the neighborhood.
For more info on the community garden in Bat Galim visit community garden Bat Galim Facebook
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| This photo collage made with Smilebox |
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
We have been discussing all sorts of questions in classes and I want to start posting here too ... so here we go...
Our time (historical time) is much different from all that was known to man. We live in the age of what is called post-modernity. In this strange world of many truths, of no right answers (or rather all right answers), of respect for all and of meaninglessness (nothing will trully make a difference) how are we to live? Who are we? Is there an "I"? Can we help children face the reality? What is education? All these questions need to be answered or at least considered.
This week we have been talking about the all inclusiveness of our new post-modern culture and the ... absurdaty of it. Most people today will agree that we need to value and respect other cultures... many will say that we have no right to dictate to other cultures our way of life (most are what my professor calls new antisemites - viewing the white (Judeo-Christian) culture as an opressor), but just a few weeks ago in Gaza around 400 nine year old girls were married.... how are we to respond if at all? If one says that it is their culture, their life, their problem, one is running away from responsibility.
If I would form more clearly my philosophy of life, I would freely defend my philosophy of education... but so far it seems that I'm stuck in the modern world with its criteria and its questions that are outdated for today ...
Our time (historical time) is much different from all that was known to man. We live in the age of what is called post-modernity. In this strange world of many truths, of no right answers (or rather all right answers), of respect for all and of meaninglessness (nothing will trully make a difference) how are we to live? Who are we? Is there an "I"? Can we help children face the reality? What is education? All these questions need to be answered or at least considered.
This week we have been talking about the all inclusiveness of our new post-modern culture and the ... absurdaty of it. Most people today will agree that we need to value and respect other cultures... many will say that we have no right to dictate to other cultures our way of life (most are what my professor calls new antisemites - viewing the white (Judeo-Christian) culture as an opressor), but just a few weeks ago in Gaza around 400 nine year old girls were married.... how are we to respond if at all? If one says that it is their culture, their life, their problem, one is running away from responsibility.
If I would form more clearly my philosophy of life, I would freely defend my philosophy of education... but so far it seems that I'm stuck in the modern world with its criteria and its questions that are outdated for today ...
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