A crazy friday night(Maya is writing this)

Friday nights usually means:dinner at the grandparents, for the Gliksman family.In Chicago we used to go to my mom's mom and her husband.In Israel we go to my dad's parents for dinner.In Chicago there were less people so it was quiter and, some might say,more fun.In Israel every body comes:of course, my dad's parents,aunts,uncles, and cousins.Plus, it is an apartment, and in Chicago it was a big house.So, of course, in Israel it is alot louder.More ppeople, smaller house=more noise.This last Friday, though, my boy cousins were alot louder than they usually are.Everything was chaotic with the kids.All the cousins that are girls are small, so we play with the boys.First of all, the boys started doing gross things out of the play-do.It's kept for the little kids but the boys played with it.In the end, there was a war of play-do.All the boys threw it at me and Danielle and Danielle threw it back at them.It was all chaos,but it was really fun.And that was just one of those crazy Fridays!

Maya's thursday ( a first-ever birthday thursday).

Last thursday I went to my great-uncle and great-aunt's house.They said that they wanted to have me sleep-over at their house and we could have two fun-days together.My greta-uncle's name is David and my great-aunt's name is Carmella.David came to pick me up on thursday after school.I was feeling a bit nervous about sleeping over but I told myself that I had already said yes and David had driven from Tel-aviv just to pick me up so it would be really rude.Plus, anyway, I thought it would be really fun there, without Danielle and Lior. I haven't been alone for a long time.Also the last time that I decided on the last minute I wasn't going and Lior went, it sounded like I had really missed out by not going.So I went as planned, first we went to the movie"Arthur and the Minimons" at Cinema City.The theater was like a palace!Everything was so big, and the seats were also very comfortable.For anyone who has not seen the movie, I would reccomend it as one of the best movies I have ever seen.After the movie we went to David's house tp pick up Carmella.The main reason that David and Carmella took me was because of my birthday which was aproximately 2 weeks ago.I turned 10.So then we went out for ice-cream and to buy me a birthday present.At first I was debating whether to get a stuffed animal or clothes.Once we got to the clothing store, though, I made up my mind that I wanted a stuffed animal.I didn't like any of the clothes there.I also thought that a stuffed animal wasmore special than clothes.I got a nice big, black teddy at toys R us.The teddy is a boy and his name id Coco.I had lot's of fun.I hope the same thing happens next year!

both of maya's birthday parties by maya

I had two birthday parties this weekend and I got a ton of presents.For my class birthday party on thursday(my real, actual birthday) about 50 people came.I had planned that we would play some games listen to some music and watch the movie "Grease".I wanted a DJ for the music.My mom has an old college friend whose son is a fifteen year old DJ.My mom asked him if he could do my birthday party and he said yes.My mom said that I had to come up with a song list and a game list for my party.I wanted some beatle songs,queen songs, and Abba.The games I wanted were:havila overet( i don't know how you say this game in english but you pass around a package and whenever the music stops you open a package and there are fun assignments you have to do),limbo(with the song limbo rocks), and heads up seven up. My mom has been baking alot since we got to israel so, no store bought cakes for me! I asked her to make me an orange cake and a chocolate cake without sprinkles.Kids were always going outside, and alot of boys ended up crying and getting hurt so we decided to start the movie at about:21:30. I brought my bean bag down for the movie and so did Danielle and Lior so not everyone was sitting on the couch.My mom and dad also got some chairs out so some kids sat on them too.most of the kids didn't really watch the movie though, there was alot of talking which didn't matter to anyone except whoever was listening and undrestood english because we saw it in english with subtitles in hebrew.Now, all this is about one of the parties.I had two parties.My second party was today, which is saturday. Now, for those in america this means"oh one more day to the weekend.YAY!" but for those in israel it means"NO!There is school tomorrow!".This second party was mainly for my family that didn't come to my first.We had nothing special planned but it was still alot of fun even without special things.The puny kids had a sort of club that Danielle was in too, and the older girls,me, Lia,Tom, and Stav played in our little "spys" group.Now, towards the end of the party something happened.It wasn't the best something that could have happened but it happened. Well I think this is long enough for my homework,
bye,
Maya