... so here we go!

Finally, family life has developed further and away from only stomach issues. we try to adjust to everyday life with all of it`s awkward moments and misunderstandings. And not to forget, the everyday life is adjust to us.

Even though kids continues to scream Ola and Da Me Caramelos at us, we try our best to be a more natural part of the family. Hanne is doing this perfectly, having a more healthy appetite, switching from classical arabic to the local dialect Hassania, and screaming Kustr Oemrok (may God shorten your life) after the kids, when they are up to no good (so most of the time). Her family keeps on pulling pranks on her, and it seems to rub off on her. Today she brought a dead lizard to class.

Martas Haima (home) seems a bit more calm, with a thoughtfull mother and fater, and a wandering baby boy with no pants on. While enjoying tranquility, she always have her english class in mind and how they would better benifit the short time we are here. Always beating herself up about not going through the alphabet yet another time. All of these very sensible and conserned thoughts however seem to quickly disapear when spanish music comes out of a small speaker and she starts to move.

Then there is Anne Kristine, struggeling to understand both arabic and spanish. When lacking Martas enthusiastic ability to use body language, she is in so many words, getting by, stuttering trough one arabic word at the time. While feeling that she has more superfluous time than normally, she is iniciating more productive ways to use the time than to read a book (even though she has been seen reading on more than one occation). A great End of the Year show, for the english students is taking shape, and a small garden in the neighbour is expected finished in the begining of December. She is also a volunteer at the school for handicaps in Layonne. When all of this is finished, there is magically even more time! So yoga classes for family and friends are arranged, texts are written and new people are met. And in her spare time, she enjoys Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment and the company of her family.

The girls are always out looking for new adventures, meeting organisations in the camp , that is doing volunteer work. We met the Brigados de Livres, a group of young people helping by amongst other things, cleaning schools, coaching footballteams and bringing water and electricity to old, weak or poor people. We also met the organisers of Mdgei Misik, a demonstration done in the wasteland in the occupied territory, consisting of about 22 000 people in tents. We also heard about his exciting escape through 15 days in the desert and his clever way of getting over the Wall of Shame, and into the refugee camp.

On other occations adventure finds the girls. 23rd of Octobre we are told nto to move without a familymember. At 11.30 we are told by our coordinator about the kidnapping of foreign aid workers in Rabuni. How terrorists have come into the Protocolo and kidnapped two girls, spanish and italian, and shot and taken a spanish man. A change in the air happens, and a new tension is felt while listening to the radio at home. We are continuously updated, and reassured of our safety. We are also given a small group of security guards consisting of fearless familymembers.