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Hi. My name is Hadas Mazal Arik.
I've just started second grade and I love it already! I'm going to a new school called Tali. They teach us a lot of Jewish studies which I enjoy. I can read really well now, but I'm still working on learning to read English well. Anyway, let me tell you a little about myself. Hadas is Hebrew for "myrtle". My parents gave me this name both because they liked the sound of it and because I was supposed to be born right around Sukkot. My mom has always loved the smell of myrtle. Mazal is Hebrew for "luck". My grandmother (my dad's mom) died a long time before I was born. In her memory, my parents gave me her name as my middle name. I'm lucky to have this name & my parents always remind me how lucky they are to have me. (And, of course, they're right!) Arik is my last name, although it really is a first name (short for Ariel). For some reason, my uncle thought it would make a cool last name... On Israeli Sesame Street, Ernie's name is Arik. So, if you want to get really weird (like my mom) you can always think of me as Myrtle Luck Ernie. My hobbies are computers (I want to learn absolutely everything there is to know about them), coloring (anywhere, with colored pencils, crayons, magic markers, pastels, or anything else I can get my hands on), other art projects watching TV (a hobby my mom doesn't really approve of), dancing, singing, and reading (which I've recently taken up -- I had to wait until I learned how to read). |
