Another workday and a visit

Introducing a family tree

Great day.

Two classes plus preparation for a workshop with the English teachers tomorrow afternoon.

Between two classes two of my students who are brothers - addressed me and invited me to come to their home after school for lunch. I accepted immediately of course, but since I had an appointment with the volunteer teachers at 3pm, we had to figure out how to do this. We did so very quickly.

So after school we met and took a taxi to their village - Rojeeb - some 4 km from Nablus. I was first invited into their grocery store right next to where they live, then into their nice home. There I met the father, mother, grandmother, two sisters, two brothers and a cousin who also teaches and runs a computer business besides.

The meal was very tasty -køfte, salad, homemade youghourt and bread fresh from the oven. Afterwards we had tea in the drawing room.

Before I returned to Nablus, they showed me the village from the roof. From there we could also log on to the internet something we had talked about since I wanted to show them the photoproject between the schools: Grandparents in Stavanger and Nablus.

In the taxi back to Nablus I realized that I had experienced a meeting that I will remember for the rest of my life.

From the taxi I saw a Palestinian soldier here and there with guns so I gather the situation is still tense. One or maybe both of the last two youths that were killed a few days ago were buried today. I picked up this morning that one of the 4 killed youths was a student at Al salayyah last year. He was a good friend of the oldest of the two brothers mentioned above. One of the two incidents took place not far from this village.

Tonight Israeli fighter jet planes are for the second night in a row making their presence heard now and again above the city of Nablus. It reminds me of the night following September 11 in St.Paul, Minnesota.

What do they want?