Now let's talk about Friday morning.
We had breakfast in our outside courtyard. The owner of the house made us Yemenite pastry with some tomato and eggs/
Then we went to Rosh Pinnah which is high up in the mountains and the roads were winding around the mountain. We visited MIFNE and met founder of the program. She spent all day with us ;-) including lunch. She is very impressive!! This is aprogram for very young children with autism. They see one family at a time for 3 weeks and the child has therapy for 10 hours a day. Therapists rotate every hour. It is based on play and joint attention and interactions. They works with babies as young as they can get them up to 5 years. She gave me a list of 8 things to look for to identify early signs of pre-autism. Her videos were amazing!!! She showed us one about a baby who had NO eye contact or any kind of joint attention at 4 months and by the end of three weeks was smiling every time she saw her mother and then we saw her at 1, 2, and 4 and she was a great little girl. All the therapists were SO nice !!!! They include the family every step of the way. The have a beautiful observation room so parents can watch when they are not in the room. Families come from all over the world !!!!!!!!!!!
We had such a good time we didn't realize it was almost shabbat so we had to take a cab back to Tzfat.
When we got back, we changed clothes and were the first ones to arrive at the Berav Shul where they have a Carlebach service. As the people bagan to arrive............you won't believe what happened................Scott's cousins from Evanston walked in!!!!!!!!!!!! We couldn't believe it !! it was so funny. someone else in the shul knew us also and knew scott's sister!!
Anyway, the service was great and people were packed into a small space and rest of the people were in the street.........which is very narrow. They even had a michetzah in the street. There was so much energy ;-)
Then we went to dinner at a young couple house and it was fantastic. he had 2 of his friends there also. They sang songs inbetween eating and we were there until 12:30am. His wife was from Los Angles but has lived here many years. She survived a bus bombing in Jerusalem and suffered hearing loss.
They were a wonderful couple and we really appreciated being invited to their house.
that was all on Friday
Marilyn and Scott