Tuesday, 22 October 2013

I woke up early this morning but really felt tired and so did not get up for a walk at all.

I taught only 5 units of Berlitz lessons today: 10:00-12:15 and 2:30-4:00. I had also been scheduled for 2 more units (4:00-5:30), but that student canceled late enough yesterday for it to be a late cancellation (so I still get paid!).

We went to Café Café at Ice Park for lunch today. David had cheese ravioli with mushroom cream sauce, and I had stuffed mushrooms, a new dish for me which was very delicious! After eating, we drove over to the Yellow gas station next to the airport, filled up, and got the car washed.

After my last class, David took a shower (sitting on a plastic chair in the bathtub, as usual, and I made sure to be there to help him get out. We don't want any repeats of last week -- one cracked rib is enough!

Then we went to vote. Even though the polling place is at a school only one short block from here, I knew that David wouldn't be able to walk it, so we drove over and were VERY lucky to get a parking place right across from the entrance to the school.

These elections are held regularly every 5 years and are for local offices only. We choose a candidate for mayor, and we choose a party for the city council. There were LOTS of people over there, including people trying to get everyone to vote for their mayoral candidate or their party. The advertising and the hype is MUCH greater for these local elections than for the national ones, I think! Anyway, we got in, located the room we were assigned to, and they let me help David vote. We both voted for דובי כהן Dubi Cohen for mayor and for his party, מהפך Mahafakh ("turnabout"), for city council.

Today, I started a new online Coursera class. It's called "Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists", and I love it already. We're learning to program in a language called ChucK written especial for this purpose, and one of the videos was a great introduction to ChucK by the inventor of the language! It's going to be really, really cool!