Here is an essay from Samed. He has his degree in interior design as well as an awesome nineties spike boy band haircut. Today after class he came and asked how he could work on his listening because "I can understand movies, and I can understand the radio, but I can't understand you." I don't think that's his fault:
Firstly, I believe in myself because I am an optimistic person who can look at things in positive terms. I am an enthusiastic person, but my enthusiasm is reasonable. Therefore, I leave the possibility of a reversal of expectations. Second, I believe in my leadership because I am an artist and I believe that I can see things differently than the perspective of other people. So I can advise people with the right tendency to take it. Third, certainly, I have a good ability in my major, interior design. Therefore, I can make something different in my country through designing many houses and rooms and my evidence of my ability that I had the highest mark in my graduation project so I can make our country splendid by planning to design a lot of projects in the near future.
This is from Edmeh. He is the best student in the class and studies architecture. He is very confident, good looking, well dressed, but when I told the class we were going to watch a little bit of Kung Fu Panda today, he told me it wouldn't be good practice for him because he had memorized all the words. It's his favorite movie. Go figure.
I believe that hope is the key of life. I grew up in an occupied country and through our journey toward freedom a lot of difficulties stand up in front of out dreams. However, we keep faith in the sacrifice of all the things we love: in life, in loyalty and dedication and in the wisdom to accomplish our dreams in our own free country. We became more flexible under any conditions, and now we are confident that our dreams are starting to be more realistic than ever. Without hope we could have given up our dreams years ago. It was hope that kept us on the right track and gave us a dream of an independent country when we had lost everything. Honestly, I'm not that deep of a thinker to see that hope is the key of life. Years ago, a friend on mine made his regular visit to his doctor. He found that he had cancer and the doctor estimated what left for him to live between 2 to 3 years, not more. However, now, after almost six years, he is still standing with a normal life. It was not medication nor the long and painful treatment that kept him alive, it was hope and having all the faith in that hope to life. I still remember his words when i was checking upon him. He said, "Do you know the difference between the cancer and I?" I said, "What?" He continued, "The cancer is like a machine. It doesn't have the faith nor the hope to kill me, but I have know that I am stronger than it. Yes, I understand that all I have right now is just a small hope to be normal again, but I have the biggest faith that this hope will someday become real." Years later, he was right. So in hope, yes I believe, because when we lose hope we lose everything. Name any thing you want and with just a rethinking of that thing you will see hope. Because of that, please don't lose hope.
Another thing I learned today- The call to prayer every morning (at 4 am) starts with (in arabic of course): wake up wake up, its better to pray then to sleep. Then for midmorning it goes: get up get up, it's better to pray than to eat.
Love! I wish you all were here.
p.s. i didn't ask for anyone's permission to share these, so if you know any Palestinians please don't say anything.
Love! I wish you all were here.
p.s. i didn't ask for anyone's permission to share these, so if you know any Palestinians please don't say anything.
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