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English class and Movement class in Qira

Place: Qira
Observers: Sally Ann Friedland, Harriet Goitein (report)
Mar-24-2014
| Morning

10:20 Last Monday, I announced that I would have to stop my activities because I am enrolled in a course at the same time.  The ladies asked us to have our lesson this week in a field.  There is a small house on the edge of the village with a porch and a tiny grassy area where we sat. Several of their children came and I also brought a friend.  There were about 25 women.   It was a real chaflah!  Everyone brought wonderful baked goods.  We brought my friend's birthday cake, a creamy tart.  They hardly touched it because it was really not their style of baking. We ate for an hour then I led them with the song I taught them the previous week: "Your Friends are my Friends and my Friends are your Friends". Then, I gave a speech about the wonderful opportunity I had to meet them, to make friends with them and thanked them for letting me into their world.  I was sorry to leave them and  very emotional.Sally Ann lead  movements and we all got involved. There was such an excitement and alot of solos.  It ended in a great hallallu mouth movements like in weddings.

Afterward, they bid me a few appreciative words and I lead them in the song "Hello, Goodbye" by the Beatles.

 

 

  • Qira

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    • Qira

      This village is located in the Salfit district of the northern West Bank, 19 kilometers south-west of Nablus. The village population numbered 1,387 as of 2016. 97.6% of the village lands are categorized as Area B, whereas the 2.3% remaining are in Area C. The Separation Fence erected around the settler-colony city of Ariel separates Qira from its local town Salfit, and necessitates a detour of about 20 kilometers.

      In 2010-2015, the women’s center in the village held meetings and workshops shared by the village women and children with members of MachsomWatch.

      For further information: http://vprofile.arij.org/salfit/pdfs/vprofile/Qira_vp_en.pdf

       

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