Red group traveling around Britain

Saturday 14th March

 We are spending the first weekend of the women’s visit in a house, just for us, in North Wales. Saturday was supposed to be the British day, which includes presentations of British people and lots of British delicious food.

We started our day with a breakfast made by Anika and the yellow group. After that we had a meeting with all of the groups and we welcomed three new young women from UK.

THE FUN BEGAIN 

 A music session for all of us was set when our Musician camilia gave us some activities and practic to do .. we played sang and enjoyed our time.

Sunday 15th March - Palestinian Day

The day started with Palestinian Breakfast and went on with the  traditional Palestinian dish Magluba (Up site down). You can see, foot was quite important in the Residential. But more important were the stories of the young women from Palestine. Every single women has her own individual story to tell from Palestine. Israah touched me the most with her talk about the refugee Qalandia.  We spend the day with walks outside and dance and singing parties in the evening.

lovely nature in Wales

British lunch

Ti Chi with Anika in the residential

Blackburn 

Lina

We have a really good time with really good people and we went to events and we  succeeded to share our experience and talk to the people.

Sima

Being two days in blackburn was like being in heaven. the people were extremely nice and friendly. we went to several places, and met with many people. we have been to many events. the events were very interesting, we were able to deliver our message through our presentations. people were interested in our talk and they asked many questions, and we answered them all. we were able to make an event in lancaster university, a mosque, and in some community centers in Blackburn. 

Dunja

I am currently sitting in the train. I am writing now, because I really want to share my great experience  in Blackburn and the last to days were to busy. We had no time at all.

The welcoming was so lovely. They organized a party with lots of food, British and Palestinian decoration, music and many nice people. After that we went to the town hall and we were welcomed by a women, who is part of the blackburn parliament. After this we went to a Cathedrial. I was really surprised about a women who works in this cathedral. Muslims and Christins are working together in Blackburn. I loved this.  In the evening we had a talk in a University and after this we went to a Pakistani restaurant and enjoyed our selves. 

Lama 

As we hear from people we know that the british people is cold or do not have emotional feeling. But I am sure that anyone will live our experience will realize thats not true we really felt like we are in our home with our family at blackburn. People there are very friendly and close to us the events was more than good because everybody there was very excited to know more about Palestine and they are very supportive to us, their support raised our motivation to share our stories and answer their questions. 

What shocked me, when a woman came and start crying and talking about what she saw on t.v. and about the crimes that Israel did in Gaza and Jerusalem. She gave me the feeling to say alhamdullela theres a good people in this world know the intensity  of suffering we live. 

We got lots of presents - this was my favorite one

We were welcomed really nice by lots of women

Sima explains the ID System to lists of women

Blackburn Town Hall 

Muslims and Christians working together in the Blackburn Cathedral

Worcester

Sima

Reuniting with the yellow group was really fun. Our stay was very comfortable . We went to the cathedral , and to a women center. We met with very nice people , shared our stories and performed songs. we also learned some english songs and sang with a group of people. 

Dunja

We were welcome with a nice lunch and after this we had a singing workshop with people from Worcester. We sang British and palestinian songs. In the evening we had an event. Lots of people came to listen. Me and Sima mad an order about the talks and outcome was so nice. Worcester is twinned to Khan Younis. I have family Khan Younis and I visited them several times. I mad a Presentation about my time there and I was very happy to share my experience and to show that people not just suffer in Gaza. They also enjoy them selves and can still have a happy life.

Lama 

Music music and music .. thats all what we did in Worcester from the first we arrived .. after going to that beautiful house with the other group. We learned english music played and sang with a musician .. sharing our stories our songs with lovely people.

Bye Bye Worcester

we learned lots of english songs