I'M HOME!

Homeward Bound

I have been trying for about a week now to write a "wrap it all up" post and have been having a pretty pathetic time of it. Which I guess it moderately appropriate because I don't really think that any of this is especially suited to being wrapped up. So I guess I will give it a shot when I get home. Wish me luck getting through the airport. (I just found out that when you go through security in Israel they give you a number from 1-6. 1 is a Jew on birthright 6 is a terrorist. Last time I was a 5. Somehow I still made it in.)

A day in the life

The Palestinian circus at its finest.

Yea you know. I live here.

A blury picture of a super sweet Palestinian rap show we saw: DAM

MY CLASS!!!!! They are so incredibly sweet. 

love!

Write a story about Nablus...

I should write a short story about life in Nablus but I won't because I can't write simple sentences about a complicated and very funny life in Nablus. But I will tell you something about life in Nablus, and its that we love life. I know that lots of people believe that I'm not telling the truth, but for instance, when the Israeli army comes in and destroys a house and goes away, just wait a few hours to see that the owner of what is left from the house and his neighbors start a process of cleaning the area to rebuild the house. I know homes that have been destroyed several times and each time the owner rebuilds it. Eventually the army gives up and leaves him alone. This is our life . The Israelis can come and destroy everything we love in our life. It's ok. We will find a new passion to love life more and more.

You should listen to your elders....

I don't know actually. I think that the elders have more experience and wisdom than the young, but there is no one who is always right. So, in my opinion, we could have used all of that wisdom and knowledge from the elders but we have to try doing things the way we want. It's okay if we were wrong. The important thing is that we learn from our own and also other's mistakes, because if we always listen to our elders, when we grow up we won't have that experience and the wisdom which the elders have. With time, we will start to forget that advice, but no one can forget his own mistakes and what he has learned from them.

We went to a Palestinian hip-hop concert last night (for the fourth of july... don't tell anyone). It was amazing. Everyone was so excited and the performance was awesome. I wish you all could have been there. They are called DAM if you want to look them up on youtube. It's in arabic, but I think there are some english translations. 

I'm home in 9 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes! 

LOVE