We are back in Australia and have been for 48 hours. The trip back was uneventful but very very long and we were all
exhausted when we gotin. In an effort to get the children back onto Australian time, I sent them to school on the day we
arrived - I wanted them to stay awake and that is so
much easier when there are things going on around you - friends, lessons, lunchtime etc. In the first Hour that Tobi was
there, the coordinator of the Ivrit programme asked her to sit the cross-grade Ivrit assessment.

This is an exam given to all the children in the year in an attempt to compare each child to the others so that they can be
graded and classed with children of like abilities. Tobi was withdrawn from the class as the otherchildren had
already sat the exam previously, and she sat the exam.

She finished and the paper was taken and marked. She was very excited when, a few hours later, it was returned to her
and she learned that she had received 100% on her paper and that she will be placed into the top Ivrit class (with the
native Ivrit speakers). She and I both give the credit to you.

It was not my aim that the children be placed into the top classes for Ivrit, when I enrolled them in
your Ulpan - but that they should improve their Hebrew enough to enjoy the language and to enjoy speaking it with their
friends.
I wanted them to enjoy the Ulpan classes, have fun with the language and feel like they accomplished something. They
did all this and the fact that they have also improved enough to place them at the top of their years is a huge bonus.

Thank you so much.

fondly

Ariane, Australia