My Autobiography

THE EDITOR’S STORY…
I was born on November 5th, 1994. I was a two pound one oz. baby. I was in the hospital about (after leaving and coming back) two months, I believe. I was in an incubator for who- knows- how long. I had a bris when I was three and a half months old (born in Kislev, bris was after Purim). I was born with a twin brother (who I think was four and a half pounds) who is two minutes older and had his bris after Chanukah. According to the doctors I was so sick and small that I was supposed to pass-away and Menachem was supposed to be really sick. Then the doctors tried something brand-new on us and we lived and are in Medical History for it. My name, Dovid Nissan, is after Dovid Ha-Melech, who also was supposed to pass-away but lived. My second name, Nissan, is from the shoresh, the root of the word, nais meaning miracle. It’s truly a miracle I lived. So now I’m alive and a good Jew, for more of my life keep reading…
My upsherin was on the third of Kislev 1997. It was my first haircut. It also was a great cake. Talking about cake, when I was around two or three I bit into a “cake” of soap, not too tasty! Then when I was about seven or eight I met Yaakov Docks in Ganainu. Now for school... I started in a school for pre-nursery and nursery. My Morahs were Morah Miriam (my mother) and Morah Chaya. Pre-1A I joined Bais Yehudah and had Morah Lauer. In First grade I had Rabbi Kaplan and Mrs. McFarland. 2nd: grade: Rabbi Kranczer and Mrs. Weitzman. Third grade I had Rabbi Weiss & Mrs. Batt (for regular class) & Mrs. Cohen (for reading). 4th was Rabbi Stewart & Mrs. Ellienstien. In 5th grade I had Rabbi Shapiro and Mrs. Hochheiser. 6th: Rabbi Schienberg and Mrs. Mewhort (for reg. class), Mrs. Hochheiser (for math). In 7th grade I had Rabbi Newman & Rabbi P. (for A.M. History) Mr. Levitin (math) Mrs. Foner (English)
Mr. Silver (computers) and Mrs. Gotlib (science)
This year in 8th grade have Rabbi Moller, Rabbi Aisenstark (J.H.), Mr. Levitin (math), Mrs. Hochheiser (English), Mr. Silver (computers), and Mr. Stern (science). Now you know my teachers. Now you probably want to know how I do in school. Well to answer your question I’m not going to use names. Most of my years were pretty good. One year for math I got a really bad grade. One year (I can’t say which subject because then it’s obvious) I did really poorly. In Hebrew I’m really good at Navi; pretty good at Chumash and Halacha, but Gemora I have a hard time. So that’s pretty much my school life so far.
Now for an exciting moment in my life: my Bar Mitzvah! Well I spent my 12th year of my life studying the Maamer (something Lubavitchers say at 13) and my laining (I lained maftir of Parshas Va-Yeitze). All of my sisters came home from far and near and worked really hard preparing: clothes, center-pieces, one sister made a beautiful slide show, another one made great guest books etc… my mother planned the events. Friends of ours made the food. My father bought our tiffilin and took us to New York for our first aliya. It was great. On shabbos we had a beautiful Kiddush. On Sunday we had a marveoulous party: with music, dancing, ice cream sundaes, it was great. So that pretty wraps up my life until now. I hope you enjoy the rest of my paper; I worked really hard on it. Have a great life, I am!