"Friday"

and the week end starts. Actually it is Thursday, but the atmosphere at work was as if it were a Friday back home. In Muslim countries Friday is like our Sunday, and for students at schools and universities they are also off Saturday.

Before calling it a day, I lead a workshop for the 4 English teachers at school. Basically it consisted of sharing with them the various oral exercises that I have used in the classes so far, the ones I plan to carry out next week, plus the method behind these exercises. They liked the exercises and the method, and therefore found the session worthwhile.

Talking about workshops. The principal has invited all of the English teachers in Nablus to a workshop where the focus also will be communication exercises and the method behind them. In addition to the Nablusian English teachers, some, maybe all of the volunteer teachers that I met with Tuesday evening, and who are all native speakers, will join in that session. Mixing native speakers with tefl teachers (teaching English as a foreign language) is just going to be perfect. I look very much forward to that.

Right now I am enjoying a couple of relaxing days at the Resort hotel in Jericho; the same hotel we stayed at in October. The weather is not the greatest; the water in the pool is cold, but everything is green, even some of the barren hillsides. Quiet.