Hey guys! Sorry I didn't update during the week but I was seriously busy, ask Shortcake99 'cause I hardly talked to her during the week. (If anyone likes Fast and Furious then go check her fanfic out, it's amazing). Here is the latest addition of 'Dear Diary'.
Thanks: the electric phantom - you have no idea how happy I was to see your review. I hope your happy with what I produced.
Disclaimer: We all know how this goes.
21st December 1986
Wow, it's been a while. Almost two weeks. I am so sorry for deserting you but I have been extremely busy lately and then I was ill. I had this awful flu type thing and I couldn't move out of my bed. Rivka was so worried that she almost took me to hospital. But I'm all better now and my schoolwork has not been as demanding.
It is almost Chanukah! I am so excited! It will be Tali's first Chanukah and Aunt Nettie is staying until just after the eight days. I am sure it will be a very good holiday.
I got my first letter from Scott. I received it a few days ago actually. He writes that Scotland is very cold and that it's almost Christmas - which is a Christian holiday of some sort. I think I'll attach the letter in here, that way it will be safe and it will save me from copying it out.
Dear Ari,
Wow! It feels so cool to be writing to Israel! I mean that in a good way because you never really hear much about Israel over here. In fact, I didn't even know there was a country called Israel. I'm really surprised we're doing a letter exchange with them but it's so much more interesting that writing to someone in France. Ugh, that was a horrible activity!
Enough of my rambling. Hi, I'm Scott. I'm twelve years old and I'm Scottish (duh!) I live in a place called Dollar which is slightly to the East of Scotland. The weather here is so different from Israel; it's rainy most of the time or cloudy but sometimes we do get sunshine and it's lovely. How are you? I don't really know that much about you except that your name is Ari and that you're twelve years old. I don't even know your address since the school are sending them as one.
I suppose I better write the stuff that I have to put in the letter. I'm Scott, I'm twelve and I live in a medium-sized house with my mum, dad and twin sister Kiera - who's a girl. We have a dog called Bailey . I'm Christian and we go to church on a Sunday sometimes but not all the time because my mum finds it boring sometimes. There, that's over and done with now.
We had this cool guy come in to class and talk to us the other day about Medicine. His name was Dr Mallard and he's from Edinburgh which is close to Dollar. It's really inspired me to become a doctor because although I wanted to be a doctor anyway, it's sort of solidified the dream. What would you like to do when you leave school? My sister wants to be a Lawyer. I think she'll be a great lawyer, she's amazing at convincing me to do stuff already and I'm her brother. I don't find her annoying, she's pretty cool and I love her like crazy. My parents think we're weird for being like that.
It's almost Christmas here. Only 13 days to go! Christmas is a Christian holiday which celebrates the day that Jesus was born. I don't think Judaism celebrates Christmas, do they? Oh well, I am sure you have something just as special. I like Christmas. I have asked for a new bike and Kiera has asked for one too! We're buying my parents a basket of all the things they like. My dad's a builder and he needs a new hammer so we're buying him one of those and my mum is an accountant and she needs a new calculator so we're buying her one of those. What do your parents do?
I think I might end this letter here. There isn't really much more for me to say. I really hope I hear from you soon, oh and there's a photo of me enclosed.
By for now.
From, Scott.
It's sad because I can't tell him what my parents do, of course, for reasons of national security. I also want to be a doctor! This Dr Mallard seems a good person. I also got Scott's photo; he's got raggy (I think that's the word) brown hair with green eyes and his smile seems really cheerful. I'm already writing a reply.
I have to go now. I promise I will not wait as long to write again, but you know the reasons why I did not.
Laila Tov.
Ari.