Yet they continue not only to have fun, but work very hard to help their village and display a keen desire to learn, even over the summer, which should put some of my students in Canada (whom I love to death and enjoy teaching!) to shame.
Enjoy the pictures and video. Some of them may make you smile, others may even make you laugh.
Don't forget however the situation they are in. Armed men in uniforms are threatening to destroy their houses, and make them and their families homeless once again. Their neighbours, who live uphill from them, on land they stole from their parents and grandparents, are doing everything in their power to make this crime happen.
Please get in touch with your political leaders and elected representatives, and do what you canto prevent this from happening.
Nadia.
Ahmed.
The author of the blog engaged in some very serious scholarly study of the English language with some of the kids. Notice the notebooks and pencils. We actually didn't ask them to bring these with them, and to be quite frank, didn't expect them to.
The lesson plan was to teach them English words for emotions:
"I am angry"
"I am happy"
"I am sad"
"I am annoyed"
The plan was to have an oral lesson, and just talk with them. However, they brought their school supplies, and wrote them down in their notebooks. We went over the spelling together, and they were very set on correcting any spelling mistakes they made. Keep in mind also that is happening during their summer vacation.
How many of my fellow teachers and substitute teachers reading this wouldn't want students like that?
Going from right to left, some of our students: Zahra, Diana, Muhammad, Ahmed, Odeh, Eisa.
After the English lesson finished, the kids and us played an energetic and very intense game of Atom. The dude with the blond hair is Oscar, a fellow ISMer and my co-teacher. Oscar is fluent in Arabic, something that is a huge help to anyone of us who works with him.
The Atom game continues.
How Atom is played in Palestine. It looks the same in classrooms in Canada, and probably everywhere else in the world.
To learn the rules of this fun game, please check out the link below:
Palestinian kid from Susya, on a donkey.
Odeh herding sheep. Settlers attacked him last year when he was herding his flock, and beat him with a stick.
Palestinian women from the village face painting the kid's faces during a "Children's Activity Day" that was set up (1).
Palestinian women from the village face painting the kid's faces during a "Children's Activity Day" that was set up (2).
Palestinian women from the village face painting the kid's faces during a "Children's Activity Day" that was set up (3).
Palestinian women from the village face painting the kid's faces during a "Children's Activity Day" that was set up (4).
The donkey was painted also. It was only fair.
Kids from Susya playing soccer (1).
Kids from Susya playing soccer (2).
Kids from Susya playing soccer (3).
Odeh making an awesome castle of out of rocks, tree branches, and mud.
The four pictures below are of our last day in Susya. Muhammad, I have to admit one of my favourite kids from the village, came by our tent. Muhammad is a very polite and likeable kid, though he can have a short temper and is at times very hyper.
He came to visit because he wanted to practice his English, and wanted some extra help. As keen as many of the other kids in Susya are, he gives the term "keener" a new meaning. This is really an amazing kid.
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