After 4 Years

At last, after a 6-hour flight, Mr. and Mrs. Ferry landed with their three children at the Tel-Aviv airport in Israel. It was really early in the morning then, but the children and parents still had strength to hug Grandma when she came running, arms open wide, at them.
The Ferrys had returned to Israel after 4 years in the U.S.A. They had missed Israel so much... They missed their family... So they decided to return...
They drove together to Grandma's house, where they had a good breakfast and went straight to bed. The next day they, the Ferrys, drove over to see their new house- the house they would live in for the rest of their lives... It was a two-floor house with an open porch on the second floor, and all the Ferrys loved it.
When school started, the children didn't mix up too well inside the community... The older Ferry child- a 10 year old girl, tall with blonde hair and blue eyes- mixed well with the other girls in her class, but the boys were horrible..! Every day the boys called her names and drew ugly pictures of her, and every day she would cry at school and when she returned home after-school, she would cry there too...
The girl's brother- another Ferry with blonde hair and blue eyes- wasn't doing so well with the community either... The boys in his class always punched him, and the girls laughed at him, and so he also returned from school crying his eyes out...
"In Indianapolis it wasn't like this..." cried the girl to her mother one day.
"I know, honey..." soothed the mother her daughter.
"There they didn't call me names or bully me all day..." the girl kept on crying.
"I know..." whispered her mother.
After a few months at the new school, the girl began to understand why the boys in her class always bullied her: because she was diffrent... she grew up in the U.S.A and returned to Israel where she did not talk too much like all the other kids, but where she was a real success at school-work- which she probably thought made the boys jealous a bit...
Nothing changed all that year: the Ferry children never mixed up well with the other children at school... And at last, when the school-year ended, the two Ferry children thanked God and started the end-of-school vacation joyfully.