15th assignment

Subject: Remembering the Milk and Jott
I am turning into a very forgetful person!!
Therefore this is the very useful tools.
There is one problem (or many)for me though.
I have to keep using any new features,
otherwise I FORGET how to use them.

13th week

Subject: IM
I seldom use it, but in order to get an instant response, it is the wonderful way of communication. When I was staying home this summer, Melissa sent me one and I was thrilled!! I looked at Meebo account. After a number of rejections due to the names which I was trying to use (it said that certain names were already taken including my real name), I finally managed to get in the next step. I was not very comfortable to give away my own name and e-mail address. So I gave it up then. Maybe I should create a completely different name and e-mail account.
Melissa, I will try to send an instant message to you!!

My thanks

One Saturday I was picking up two storm windows from a nearby hardware store. I paid and was ready to lift them from the floor. A young man about 12 or 13 years old waiting after me and paying for his candy bar asked me if I needed a help. Surprised, I accepted his help and thanked him. In the car I was thinking that there must be many good things happening in the town like this young man did for me. On the way home turning into a side street, I saw a young man picking up a big falling branch from the middle of the street. I was sure that would have not been safe for drivers. When I passed him, I thanked him with smile. I was really excited to witness "kindness" within a matter of several minutes.

That night, I was thinking of all those kind memories during my traveling days long time ago: An elderly Italian woman with a black babushka and black long dress gave a homemade bread and wine on the train somewhere between Venice and the border with Yugoslavia (at that time, in the 60s), a law professor from Ankara, Turkey who gave me a quick lesson of Turkish so that I could function somewhat in Istanbul, a young Moroccan student who invited me to her dorm (which was open to the tourists as well) in Paris, and we could go to the Paris Opera with a student rate (!), a German friend and her family who opened their home and found a volunteer job for me in Cologne, a German lady in East Berlin train station who bought me a cup of tea when she found out that I missed a train to Czechoslovakia (again in the 60s), and many families at Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan, Israel which I call "home" as well as one in Germany still extend their friendship even after 40 years of absence.

It seems to me that under my present circumstance, I have to depend on my friends's kindness and my families' support. I am really grateful! So with the kind memories of my husband, I would like to say "Thank you" to my friends, my families and the strangers who extended their help. I know that there is a hope for tomorrow.