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Der Kuckuck und der Esel
Song contest between the cuckoo and the donkey

From German to English: The cuckoo and the donkey they had a big argument, who would be the best in singing during the pretty time of May. The cuckoo said: I can do it, and rightaway started to yell, but I can do it better, fell in the donkey rightaway. That sounded so beautiful and lovely, so beautiful from afar and from near, they sang all the two of them cuckoo, cuckoo, i-a From Hebrew to English: Between cuckoo and donkey there once was a big argument, who of them would sing better in the month of spring. Cuckoo said: I sing began rightaway and yelled, but I can sing better the donkey entered the combat. That sounded so pleasant, so lovely so pleasant from afar , from near as they sang both together [gam yakhad *) cuckoo, cuckoo, i-a *) reminiscence of a famous Hebrew song

Song Contest between the cuckoo and the donkey in Hebrew for Mika! March 5-11, 2011 See the context   the third stanza modified on August 1, 2013: That sounded so sweet, so wondrous so pleasant to human and animal as they sang both together [gam yakhad *) cuckoo, cuckoo, i-a cuckoo, cuckoo, i-a

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2011

En-JOY-ing and growing with Mika and my Family following the documentation "Mika's Heaven on Earth", inserted since Song Game 2007_01_01

continued from Song Page 2007_08_23
Immanuel's photo-experience of "Brazil" - parallel to and still different from mine

It is still Easter-Sunday, April 24, 2011, in the Ibirapuera Park of Sao-Paulo.
When we left the WATER exhibition - frustrated because no info in English was available - it rained a bit.
We had a snack somewhere - again with a coconut for me and for Immanuel - and then entered the Planetarium

There seem to be no pictures in my son's camera of our trip through the Commercial Area on Monday, April 25, 2010

After sunset in our hotel , on April 25, 2011 - Tomer teaches Mika a card-game, called "Milkhama"
(= War, but in kids' way: the first syllable stressed, not the last as in proper Hebrew)
"I always played it as a kid, when I visited my grandfather", Tomer told.
Mika was exhilarated. Even I found fun in playing...
Immanuel came in and when he watched us , I asked him to take some photos.

On our last morning, before going to the airport at 4 PM, April 26, 2011 we once more meandered through town and came across a company, which constantly changes the entry to their building. Now - just right for Mika, who always has wishes, there were thousands of clippings, where people could write down their secret desires, like people do at the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem.

Immanuel's Girls - the last photos on our family-holiday in Sao Paulo!

We arrived at Shoham on April 27, 2011, around 5 PM,
at 8 PM my son brought me to Lod train-station and Tomer to his boarding-school.
3 days later Immanuel again flew to Sao Paulo as a pilot,
it probably wasn't easy to be there, in the same hotel, but without his family...

May 13-14, 2011 -the first "regular" weekend with Mika,
while her father was in China and Hongkong

When the 2 hours bus from Arad arrived at Tel-Aviv,Central Bus-Station, I had to wait for the bus to Shoham.
For the first time I discerned this picture on the wall, painted by the father of a soldier who was killed in 1988,

In the night from Friday (May 13) to Shabbat there was a storm (unusual for this season),
with rain, crazy lightenings and thunders.
In the morning several things were out of order, for instance the ceiling in my room.
It showed big stains of water....
Efrat is like I was in former times: her worries go beyond all reasonable proportions.
Therefore, when Mika slips into her teenage beheavior, Imma looses her temper ....

Imma was angry at Mika, and when Mika climbed up the stairs, she commanded: "You are not to go into MY room, go into Your room." For quite a while we did not hear anything, so Imma went up to check in Mika's room. There she found a big note glued to the door, and written on it with ever so many mistakes: "No entrance for Mothers! Mother!" Inside Efrat at first couldn't find Mika. But then she saw her under her desk. She had barricaded herself In the corner, behind her chair and the waste-paper basket. When Imma tried to appease her, she said: "Only if you are ready to open this pail!"

Finally the pail opened, and Imma and I left the room.
After a while Mika came down to my room:
"Come, I've built a tractor with the "Sabre"-pieces!"

I came and was amazed and didn't even appreciate, how difficult it had been to make the pieces stick. I said: "since it's not a tractor, but a waggon, you could seat passangers in the back, and you could find a vehicle to pull or push." So she placed her worry-dolls in the back, and used a hamster with an electrical device, which let it do both - screech and move around crazily. It started to push the waggon alright, only to move aside after a short moment and leave the waggon alone. But it was great fun for both of us! And for me even more, since it was a real co-creation!

Once the waggon was pushed to a place, that let Mika re-discover a drawing, called "Family".
She remembered that she drew it for "Family-Day" in her former kindergarden, last year.
"I can do better now!" she said and I suggested: "So do it! Draw the same theme again - now !"
I stayed with her and wondered - after she had placed the figures "Elah, Mika, Abba" in front,
how she would find enough space for the other three: "Tomer, Imma, Alon".
But that wasn't a problem for Mika, she simply invented "windows",
through which the three family members would look into the scene.
And in between the "Family-Party" as she called it: fireworks!
And yet --- I also discerned,
that the new drawing didn't really show a progress in technique.
And why was it, that lately I saw so few paintings and drawings?
Once she would come to our desk and start to draw rightaway.
What had changed?

On May 19, 2011, Mika called me: "Look in your e-mail box I sent you a creation!" "From 'Maya's Secret' ?" "Yes" It was after 8 PM and Boris was visiting me. At first I said: "I'll look into it later", but then my right mind let me say: "Or do you want me to look at it right now?" "Right now!" The "Maya's Secret" includes a device for sending off a "creation" right away. I say "creation", since, as I said above, I cannot see much creativity in this. But now, in the morning of May 20, I think, that I might be wrong. To balance these items evenly on the screen is the same skill of balancing, which Mika demonstrated in her chocolate-tower!

Imma - already overwhelmed with the technical problems on this day - screams at Mika
and Mika again barricades herself, this time under the blanket on my bed...

The next morning, Sunday, May 15, 2011, an hour before I would return to Arad,
I placed myself at the table across Mika, who ate her cereals while I drank my coffee.
I very much wanted to part in a cheerful, fruitful manner, and I walked to our chest.
From there I grabbed the tiny remnants of 4 Chanuka-candles, which I had brought for her,
together with a pretty cloth I'd also brought for her, and 2 vessels from our "restaurant-stock".
I lit the candles and said: "Since there is no birthday child around, what do you want to do now!"
"I want to say a wish!"
"Yes, but - contrary to what you believe - you must say the wish right out loud!
If you say the wish only in your heart, the waves that go out from it into the world, are much weaker,
than when you send waves of your spoken words!"
It did seem to make sense to her, for she said out loud:
"I want to be a magician, when I grow up!" and blew out the candles.

We knew about this wish, yes, we had experienced the truth of it, twice!
First: When I couldn't open my e-mail on the computer, Mika "prayed",
and after some frustrating attempts I found the right way to repair the bug.
More astounding was another event: I couldn't find my digital recorder!
I said to both, Mika and Efrat, that I get hysterical without this recorder,
since I need it to rehearse songs, like now the song for Independence-Day.
While I went down to walk Nella outside, Efrat was searching everywhere.
Suddenly Mika said - while sitting on the sofa - "but it's in her bag!"
I had turned this bag inside-out - twice - and so had Efrat after me.
And yet, the recorder was there in the bag, simply, innocently....

Now Mika wanted to repeat the game - four times I lit the candles,
four times she said: "I want to be a magician" and blew out the candles.
The last time the camera caught the flames exactly in the middle -
between burning and being extinguished....

Continuation of "En-JOY-ing and Growing with Mika and my Family" on Song Game 2007_08_25