Yes, I dropped the Hebrew class at the YMCA, but Don is still going. The class moved too fast for me, I couldn't keep up with the memorizing and it became stressful. I will continue to learn, but at my own pace. I find the letters and the way words are put together fascinating, and I need to learn the numbers (important when shopping). Yesterday my neighbor, Darla, took me to a grocery store that was every bit as big as the ones in the States and this store has a lot of American products in it. I was like a kid in a candy store. I tried to keep the number of groceries down because we had to bring them home in our carts on the bus. The bus home was crowded and as I dragged my cart down the aisle, a wheel came off. There, scattered on the floor of the bus, was a wheel, some washers, and a plastic thing with a wire in it, the spring was rolling around somewhere under the seats. After struggling off the bus with my heavy broken cart, Darla called our husbands. Don was on the computer, we couldn't get him, but her husband came to the rescue. This cart had done this to me before, and now it was obvious that my cart was not up to the job. Darla said that she would take me to were she got her much stronger, better cart. After we put our groceries away, off we went to the Sheruke. The Sheruke is a big open air produce market in town and near by is the shop with the good carts. I, with my new cart, bought the most beautiful oranges and some other produce, the prices there are about a third the price in the grocery store, well worth the trip. We got all the way home on the bus, with a heavy load of produce, and my new cart's wheels stayed on. It's been beautiful here, in the 70s and low 80s. Some times we get an East wind, the wind from the East comes off the Arabian Desert bringing dust with it and dumps the dust on us. Wind from the West is nice (in the summer) and brings cool air from the Mediterranean. In winter the West wind brings rain and storms. 

More later....... 

Shalom..........Bernice