What did you find that was...
SURPRISING
Technology (lots of people said this)
Way that we kept coming together and separating again –
I hadn’t imagined it
Methods of teaching – brainstorming
Huge schools
Long lessons
Hard work for the teacher
Assistants for special needs students
People know more about Palestine than I expected (in London,
in Wales) (discussion on this: people decided this was SOME people)
Transport
People use maps to find their way round
Even local
people need maps to find their way round
Very old people and lots of them walking in the streets
Met Muslims and Arabs who knew nothing about Palestine at
all
People spending a lot of time underground
Walking quickly
Hearing ‘free Palestine’ when I was in the street with a
kaffiyeh
FUNNY
Having security men inside schools
Two colour uniform in school to give students a chance to
choose
Students in schools in Llanidloes wanted to go to Palestine, to
see the weather, short days of schools and long holidays
To take a photo with a policeman
The rivalry between people from Liverpool and
Manchester (football)
How to make students silent in class... " sh 5 sh 4 sh 3 .. "
That this had to happen several times in an hour
SAD
Being away from my family and children
It’s a short visit really
Wanted to go to other places
Sad to lose one of our participants (this was Lina who wasn't able to travel as her mum was ill)
A lot of work and not much time off!
Leaving England and going to Palestine
A long discussion about the difficulties/ pressures organisations wanting to work with Palestine are facing
Sad to leave the Llani people and not to go to the school
again
I LIKED
Haven’t seen any military tanks or cars on the streets
No checkpoints
Relationship with all the group is very good
I really like being with the group
Hospitality from the British teachers and our hosts
Residential
Great organisation of the project by CADFA which made it
easy for us
I DIDN’T LIKE
People being frightened about talking about
Palestine
At the conference – would have been good to have more time for all of us to talk about our experience in Palestine. Perhaps the conference was too short: should it have been two days?
(This isn't the whole of the evaluation - this was just the beginning from thee Palestinian end)
I thought it was a great but tiring week. Felt so privileged to meet everyone. Sorry that you weren't here when the days are longer and the weather (sometimes!) better.
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