An account of our fabulous two-week-long trip to Palestine in April 2009
D – day at last ! - 2 p.m. : the 11 of us - Tanguy, Louise, Laetitia, Julien, Guirec, Théodore, Marine, Diane, Bénédicte, Anne-Claire and Sophie - meet at Brussels North Station where we take the (...)
Jerusalem !... We are still a bit dozy when we discover the hostel terrace and the great view it offers of the roofs, towers and minarets of the old town, on the Dome of the Rock and that of the (...)
A new day has broken on Jerusalem. The morning air is still cool but the sky is clearing : it’s going to be another bright day !.. Diane has slept wonderfully well and many of us want now to (...)
Oh ! The great night we slept in the oriental mildness of the stars of Jerusalem !... Oh, the muezzins chanting, the bells ringing in the day breaking ! … Cloches du Saint-Sépulcre - The bells (...)
Our first day in Aida camp... In the Guest-House, group-life is getting organized : a trip to the bathrooms in the bathrooms, exploration of the contents of the kitchen cupboards, search for (...)
Morning atmosphere in the Refugee camp of Aïda : muezzin’s calls and bird songs... Ambiance IMG/mp3/Aida_-_ambiance.mp3 Today some of us go and attend Issa’s theatre workshop again. (...)
This morning, we wake up surrounded by music to discover that, surprise !... There are pancakes for breakfast !... Today, we are starting the interviews. We have told our friends about our (...)
It is already our fourth day in Aida Camp. No one among the "less than 30" wakes up anymore at the first call of the muezzin (before sunrise), nor at cockcrow (a little bit later). No reaction (...)
On the menu today the interviews of Jamal and Mustapha (16) who is back after a 3-day absence (we missed him !) : he was studying (all night long) and sitting for exams… We use the opportunity (...)
Up at 7 a.m. : today we are going to Hebron, which means about an hour travel by bus. Mazen, Ayssar and Mohammed are coming with us : it will be their first time in Hebron although it is only 30 (...)
Nablus-day today. Martine, Tarek, Mohammed (our little singing bird) and Oussama are coming with us as well as Ty and Michaël. (Mazen got lectured by his father who wants his son to stay in Aida (...)
This morning, we all have a lie in, then scattered breakfast... We haven’t planned much for today : we have the preceding days to stomach !... Yet Théodore, Diane, Louise, Sophie, Julien and (...)
Our last day in Aida. We keep ourselves busy to prevent sadness overtaking us : have breakfast, pack our cases and bags, a cleaning-team to return a spotless Guest House to our hosts, another (...)
We are happy to have breakfast on the terrace we already know. Then it’s up to everybody : go for a stroll inside the souks of the old town of Jerusalem and/or visit the David’s Tower, which (...)
Morning in Jaffa for « the more than 25 », flea-market and ice-cream : we bump into our Jesus and his Magdalen ! Incredible but true. While sauntering about the streets and booths, Anne-Claire (...)