The Baby-Sitter’s Club
When I was 18 and newly graduated from high school, I joined a volunteer group at Al Tufula center in Nazareth city called “I’m from this city”. The volunteer group purpose was to corroborate young Arab girls from Nazareth and other villages from the north.The Entrepreneurship increases the capacities of us as youths, increases our knowledge on various issues and provides us with volunteer opportunities to increase our network and skills. We volunteered at the Nursery and took care of babies and toddlers, women with disabilities, and we took trips to neglected and poor areas.
The Entrepreneurship was unforgettable experience and was a big part of the woman I am today. it was important to include this life experience in my creative work,That’s why I decided to include it at my final project in Wizo The NB Haifa School of Design.
“The dining room has been transformed into an Italian restaurant.”
The book “Kristy’s Big Day” from the series The Baby-Sitters Club By Ann M.Mrtin reminded me of the experience I had at the Entrepreneurship. As the book talks about a tween girl whose name is Kristy. Kristy is the founder of the baby sitters club. Kristy’s mom is a divorced woman who wants to get married from another divorced man. there will be 14 kids at the wedding. There comes the baby sitters club to help out, and take care of 14 kids for a week as the adults prepare for the wedding.
In this project I wanted to integrate the story of the book to the experience I had at the Entrepreneurship in the arab society. Arab society is still critical and rejecting about the fact of divorced Arab women getting married. I changed the characters in the story to my real life friends who were at the Entrepreneurship. As we took care of babies (we were like real life baby sitters club). I changed the names to Arab names instead of American, and lastly illustrated 13 pages and 14 vignettes which had a taste of the arab world and traditions. I wanted to make the story a happy experience as you open the book, as if a divorced arab woman who will get married is celebrated in a normal way.
“Mom and Watson came into the dining room then, Mom carrying a pot of tomato sauce,Watson following with the spaghetti.”
“There are two windows in my room. One faces the front yard. The other faces the side. Mary Anne Spier’s house is next door, I can look right into her bedroom from that side window.”
“We used to stand at the window with flashlights and signal each other with a secret flashing code Mary-Anne has made up.”
“Can you help me make some lists, sweetie?'“ said Mom.”
“Can you help me make some lists, sweetie?'“ said Mom.”
“When she returned, she was with her grandmother, Mimi who was carrying a tray of sodas for us”
“When she returned, she was with her grandmother, Mimi who was carrying a tray of sodas for us”
“They already had everything they needed and could buy anything they wanted. I lay awake thinking. My present had to be just right.”
“That’s two hundred for a job very well done,” Mom told us.”
“Both pressing down on the cake cutter. Then they each took a bite of cake, their wrists intertwined. I could see their wedding rings shining in the sunlight.”
