The Day After Yom Kippor

Oh we made it through this less-jolly of holidays.

My friend Wendy is boucing around Germany. She hasn't called but I will be there at 2:10 on Wednesday at the station to pick her up! I hope she's surviving. That's my friend from Melbourne.

I think there is a sort of informal memorial today for Agnes. Too bad I wont be there but the rest of the "Colliver clan" will be. Since a lot of Agnes' friends didn't actually know each other, given the electic nature of her life, this will be a good opportunity. I imagine they'll have more incommon than just knowing Agnes!

Please note that my immediate family now has four different surnames but I will still refer to us as the "Colliver clan".

Religion is a subject in Alsatian public schools, as I previously posted (please don't make me post the link!) So now we finally have Talmud Torah (the fancy name they give Hebrew school here). Talia and Ronnie are together in it.

I ask Ronnie what he learned the first day. "Well, the lady told us that Zeus has a balance..." the French word for scale. "He decides who is good and who is bad, who will be rich and who will be poor."

Hmmmm, not sure of the materialism going on there...

So Talia says "No, not Zeus, Moses!" or honey, could it have been "Dieu"?? (said "dee-eww") which could kind of sound like "Zeus".

I left it and let him tell his dad the story that way. It was very amusing. My kid has seen "Hecules" too many times!

But on a more serious note, Davina has the same teacher Talia did. I went to the meeting, forgoing Talia's given at the same time. Yes, he's planning on doing the excusion again this year. What does he want to do with a bunch of 3 year olds in the forest for three days??? What purpose does it serve?? Of course, there were moms talking about the wonderful time their children had. Great.

I did speak up. Why was my child with a medical problem excluded? You didn't let her even do the first day. Then he happily tells me that he did let a mom spend the night because he son needed an injection at night. I was agast. I had heard about how my being there, just by picking Talia up, would upset the other kids and he lets another mother spend the night without batting an eye lid?? Okay, obviously he had a more serious "condition" than Talia did (which she outgrew as predicted) but the principal remains.

A bit of favoritism?? I was furious! I still am...