Informal letter

21.12.08

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Dear Mazal…
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How are you, my lovely cousin? Is everything OK at home? At school?. I miss you so mach and I can't wait to see you. I'm sorry I haven't written in a while, I was busy organizing my new house, remember? We moved home to Holon last month. In my life everything is o.k.

last week I was on a school trip for two days, it was so

funny.

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A very surprising thing happened to me onn this trip to the south. Do you remember I told you about a very nice boy? then on this trip we were together all the time. We were talking a lot about everything in my life and about his life. His name is Tal and he lives near my house. Mazal, he is so amazing, he was looking in to my eyes in his dissolved look all the time. We spent all the evening together but in the end he told me that he loves me a lot of time and he didn't know how to start talking to me. It was such surprising thing but I was happy. The question now is: will my family accept him?
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What do think about it? will they accept him or not? I hope you will write me back soon because I need your opinion on this problem.

Love you.

Sara

What is time?

The Hourglass

The Hourglass is a device for the measurement of time.
It consists of two glass bulbs placed one above the other which are connected by a narrow tube. The hourglass is named for the most frequently used sandglass, where the sands have a running time of one hour.

Hourglasses are said to have been invented at Alexandria about the middle of the third century. It is speculated that it was in use in the 11th century, where it would have complemented the magnetic compass as an aid to navigation. Recorded evidence of their existence is found no earlier than the 14th century.

Finally, Hourglasses are still in use, but typically only ornamentally or when a relatively approximate measurement of time is needed, as in egg timers for cooking or board games.

The sundial

A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the sun. As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow-edge progressively aligns with different hour-lines on the plate.

The first sundial that humans invented was by Obelisk in ancient Egypt in 3500 BC. With time, it became more specific and efficient, but even now, we can't know what is the exact hour from the Sundial.

In conclusion, the Sundial was one of the first clocks that was invented in

the world. Now there is no use in the sundial.