@Malva
I made aliyah 30 years ago, and my Hebrew is OK: fluent but not always correct. Previously I lived in the States, Brazil, and Venezuela. I still speak good Spanish and Portuguese. My husband and I are semi-retired; I write and homebrew. I like making things from the bottom up: sourdough bread, wines and meads, almost everything we eat. In addition I make soap. My kids are grown up except for one 8 1/2 year old daughter. We are Ashkenazim and Orthodox but eclectic; my husband loves to daven with Morroccan minyanim and I like the flavor of Chassidus. In cuisine, however, I infinitely prefer the flavor of Sephardic food to that of standard Chassidic. :)