New girls at the lunch club

Hey Hey!

There are four new girls at the lunch club in LSU school....they dont' know much about Palestine yet so they had plenty of questions to ask you!

We started to tell them about Palestine through objects and pictures which began to show a little bit about Palestine . They were amazed by the smell of Arabic coffee, the number of "holy places" in Jerusalem and the story of the wall. We spoke a lot about it during the last session, and one of the girls ask a really good question : '' Why the wall is built inside the Palestinian territories? '' We answered it  and explained all of the difficulties the wall brings to the Palestinian people.
Maybe you would like to answer this questions yourselves?
They would like to know more about you and about your daily life in Palestine....here are their questions:

"How does the wall affect you directly?"

"At what time do you wake up to go to school?"

"How long does it take you to go to school?"

"What is you favorite singer?"

"Do you enjoy school? What type of subjects do you do?"

"How is life at home? And what is your daily routine?"

Can you let them know more about it? Hope to hear from you soon!

Making an animation about life in Palestine

Today we started making an animation film about life in Palestine. The girls came up with their idea for the story they wanted to tell through the animation to show what life is like here. Once we made the storyboard (the plan for the film) we started drawing the pictures which we will then be able to photograph and turn into a short animation film. Here is where are up to so far...

Me Shahd and Lucıle went to LSU school, we made an event called (  a taste from palestine) we brought palestinian food such as kiba,Hummus,Falafel and Tabula.There were 12 girls and Aricka.First of all, we talked about palestine in general and about our situation,we showed the girls a palestinian map of how it was and how it had become.The girls responded and asked questions and it was really interesting.Then we invited them to get involved in our Human Rights club.
Secondly, we invited them to try the food and they liked it so much and they said that they would like to have more information about the palestinian life style and what's going on in palestine. We showed them pictures about our traditional dress and told them about our culture.
It was very nice and hopefully we will have more people who are interested .

Daily School Life in Abu Dis

This week at Abu Dis Girls School we asked the girls to write about and draw pictures of their daily school life.

They talked about what time they woke up, what they had for breakfast, what they did at school and any after school activities. We took pictures of the posters they made and the uniforms they wear on a daily basis.

We wondered how much everyday school life differs between here and England. Perhaps we can exchange information on what they differences and similarities are.

What is it like to go to school in Camden vs Abu Dis?

Today at Abu Dis Girl’s school we spent our first class getting to know each other. Waad, Manar, Ashar, Sahar, Shahed, Tamara, Ghida’a, Malak, Shaden and Khadeeja told me a bit about themselves and then we chatted about what they would most like to ask the girls who go to Camden School for Girls. They said they would like to know what it is like to live in London as a school girl and had lots of questions about what school is like there.

We thought it would be nice to make a ‘day in the life of a school girl’ blog about Abu Dis Girl’s School with photos so that you can see what school is like today in Palestine. And it would be great to have the same back!

The things they most wanted to know were:

-          Do you like school in London and what do you like most/dislike most?

-          What time do you wake up, start school and finish school each day?

-          What does your uniform look like? (maybe we can have a picture?)

-          What subjects do you learn and do any of you learn Arabic?

-          What do you normally eat for lunch at school?