Hebrew lesson for first grade via Zoom:
Online: Elam, Ilai, Ilai, Eli, Dori, Mori, Nori, Nur, Yali, Gali and Noam Habat.
A very patient teacher considering the circumstances: Good morning everyone, I'd love to hear how you're doing, and then we'll work together a little bit on the booklet. I mention that today we don't wear all kinds of costumes and masks on Zoom, even though it's a lot of fun, because it's distracting. Who wants to tell us what he did over the weekend?
Yali (green with witch's hat): Aaa!!a
From Masab (as mentioned, a very patient teacher considering the circumstances): Yali, sweetheart, I mention that today we are without the masks of Zoom. You can choose a background you like and use emoticons, but I want to see you without costumes. I'll give you five minutes at the end, and then you can make funny faces at each other.
Gali: We went to a café and drank chocolate milk!
MSB: Oh, that sounds really fun.
Noor: We don't have to go to a café, we have chocolate milk at home.
Glee: It was really tasty, yummy.
Noor: The chocolate milk we make at home is the tastiest, yummy.
Yali: It's raining!
MSB: Thank you Gali and Nur, now please everyone open the booklet on this page, with the drawing of the tiger (mirror).
Murray: Is that the page with the giraffe painting?
Nori: Is that the page with the drawing of the peacock?
Noam the daughter: I can't find it!
Noam's mother: Sorry, we just joined, what page is it in the booklet?
Yali: Is it raining!!
MSB: This is page 9.
Noam Jr.'s mother: the pillar with the lion's painting?
Mesab: Tiger.
Yali (loses it): It's raining!!
Nur (who lives in a building near Yali): It's raining here too!!
Coming to terms with reality: Who else is it raining?
Elam (with my wealthy parents): Not because I'm not at home, I'm in the Maldives.
MSB: Who can tell me which word begins with the letter M?
Elam: Maldives!
Yali: It stopped raining.
MSB: Dori, do you want to try?
Dory: (...)
MSB: Dory, your microphone is closed.
Dory: (...)
MSB: Dory, maybe ask Mom to open the microphone for you.
Dory: (...)
MSB: Dory?
Dory: No.
MSB: What's not?
Dori: I don't want to try.
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Excuse me, I'll be Odetta for a moment:
Here's a mental health trick I learned from TikTok, and while I haven't tried it myself yet, I did really like it and put the video in my saved videos, which is the highest level of commitment for me. The goal is to create a "health menu", and whenever you feel like you're on your way down, you should choose an activity from the menu that helps you feel better, depending on your need and ability. Here are some examples:
Appetizer (activities of up to fifteen minutes that don't require much effort, and that will make you feel a little better): call a friend or girlfriend (really talk with your mouth!), read a few pages in a book, apply nail polish, take a shower.
Main course (a relatively long activity that requires a lot of effort, but is very rewarding if you can bring yourself to do it): volunteer, cook, do handicrafts, clean the house, do sports.
Last course (a fun activity that if you do too much of it you feel nauseous): being on TikTok, watching an episode of your show, giving a really witty answer to Queers4hamas@'s user, who turns out to have done research! Online! And now he thinks that Israel unjustly stole the state from the Palestinians, and in solidarity he sewed himself a dress from vintage keffiyehs.
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Last Google searches before 07.10:
"Educational nice butterfly here"
"Japanese hail"
"Three days detox"
"Jonathan Shapiro Chords" (Don't Judge Me)
"Herzliya Museum"
"Why launch"
Last Google searches after 07.10:
"Chief of Staff in English"
"Star of David necklace"
"Zucchini meatballs"
"Biden road blockades"
"What is a CPC"
"Will be good David Broza"
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