Rosh Hashana

So, I chickened out on the Florida trip. We were supposed to go down to visit Lis's family for Rosh Hashana, but I hate flying in the best of times, and just chickened out on flying into a hurricane. Even though it looks like Ivan is going to totally miss Lis's folks' area. We got a credit from the airline, so we can reschedule.

This, of course, means that we now have to work out where we ARE going for Rosh Hashana. We've got several possibilities. Cherie Kohler-Fox is going to be running services for the first day, and we got an invite to go there, which we'd declined since we were going to be in Florida, but which we can phone up and find out if we can un-decline. For the second day, we probably will go to the shul where I work.

It's a bit odd -- I have never in my adult life paid for High Holiday tickets. I've always either been someone's guest, like when we go down to Florida, or gone to places where my mother or I work, so get I get comped in. So that's our next challenge.

First day of Hebrew school was today!

Went surprisingly well. I tend to worry when things go this well. I really like co-teaching -- Tamara and I seem to be pretty good together.

I got the room put together a few nights ago. The room has a blackboard that is actually black, and sort of holds chalk marks. Which is better than it was before, when it was green, and didn't sort of hold chalk marks. It's not perfect, but it's better than it was. It's not as good as a big piece of rock would be, but it's okay. The new whiteboard looks nice, though. And the poster I made up with a giant gimmel, and all the kids' names in both Hebrew and English looks great.
(SHAYNA: Oooh! I wanna see what color you wrote my name in. . . . BROWN? How come I have to be brown?
IAN: I LIKE brown. Besides, I wrote my own name in black, and brown is better than black.)
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