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Teaching children is not that easy. But teaching notes to children, solfège , can indeed be fun, when the teacher is Joelle Bou Ghazale :) She’s just great in teaching them the notes ladder. Look at the pictures …it’s a real game: someone goes up the steps and gets down again, in playing they know how to memorize the notes..
Please copy paste the link and watch it at youtube. Simply beautiful 
Last Saturday we hosted the local NGO SKOUN. They are specialists in drug prevention. Ms. Chantal Chedid, psychologist and working iwth them, gave the conference. Parents and some youth attended it. We hope to be able to give it to the youth also, since they are the people concerned. It was very interesting and Ms. Chantal dealt with all kinds of addiction, not just what we call drugs, but cigarettes, alcohol and the eastern Nargile waterpipe.
It has been a very long time since I wrote…too busy? Yes and no. Perhaps busy with sorting out of ideas regarding life and in particularly life in Lebanon. We hardly get the time to get over one explosion or another one pops up; and as to make things worse, we now had two earthquakes in one week, very well felt…especially the one of today.
We started fasting, way too early, just after Christmas, and in some countries the Orthodoxe and Western fasting doesn’t fall together, which means 2 good Fridays and 2 Easters: poor Jesus 
Ayadina is doing great, in fact we have a conference tomorrow about drugs, given by the NGO Skoun. This conference was meant to be on Jan 19, but again the unstable situation of Lebanon, obliged us to postpone it. Let’s hope that parents will come tomorrow.
I also underwent a minor surgery at my left shoulder. This made me feel -however for a short period- , what it means to be dependent on others for primary needs. I do have many friends who are physically disabled, but experiencing something myself is totally different. It teaches me a lot..not at least humility.
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