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Goodbye to our American Friends!
During the past year, students from the Orphan Welfare Association (OWA) in Baqa’a Camp, Jordan have been exchanging letters with Pen Pals from AB Regional Highschool in Acton, MA, US.
For the OWA students in Jordan, ranging in age from 6 years old to 16 years old, their Pen Pals were their first “American friends” and the first exposure they had to American people, culture, and life in general. The letter exchange both showed the OWA students the value of developing their English language skills and gave them a sense of connection to American people. Similarly for the AB students, this exchange provided insight into a corner of the world that Americans do not know much about; they have learned about life in the Middle East –> life in the Arab world –> life in Jordan –> and even more specifically, life in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan.
This video shows some of the OWA students saying goodbye to their classmates. Not pictured here are many other students, including high school students (Alanood, Rawhy, Mohammed, and Hana), who participated throughout the year. All of them send their love, thanks, and farewell to their friends in America.
Rap and Graffiti
In the past weeks, a new teacher has joined us: Khalid.
Khalid is a university student with a unique talent… He is a rapper and a graffiti artist. Khalid came to the Association and shared his passion with the students. For many students, it was the first time they heard of these new arts, and for all it was the first time they learned the skills behind it.
Khalid taught students how to write rap and shared his songs with them.
He gave words to students to perform – and they loved trying to rap just like him.
Khalid also showed them how to do graffiti — and while doing so, he made a sign for the Association. (“Palestine”)
The older students learned about graffiti and even got to try it out for themselves!
Of course, Khalid also performed his own rap for the students.
He gave all the students a chance to perform something as well. Many students recited poems or sang songs — the littlest one of us all, Ban, was the first to contribute a song she memorized!
All in all, it was an amazing program that introduced our students to new types of art, encouraged them to be creative, and gave them a voice.
About Me — My Family
My Mum
She is Hiyam and she is 54 years old. She is from Iraq. She is fat and short and in the past, she had long hair but now she has short hair. She is very nice and she hates wrong things. She can make nice food. She has 2 sisters and 3 brothers. I love her so much. She watches every thing on the t. v. She can’t use all things on the computer or phone. She always loves facts.
My Dad
He is Zuhiar and he is 60 years old. He is from Palestine. He is skinny and tall. He has long hair and in the past, he had a moustache. But now he has a moustache and a beard and he wears glasses. He is like my mum because he doesn’t like wrong things. He can make nice food better than my mum. He is an artist and he can draw anything he wants. He is always happy. He loves action movie and he loves animals so much that he had six dogs and ducks and cats and also birds. He always loves the truth. 3 years ago, he had something painful in his body. After that, we found out he had low blood sugar. Then we knew it was cancer and he lived for 2 years and then he died.
My Brother Ahmad
He is Ahmad. He is 34 years old and he born in Iraq. He works in Iraq now. He is engineer and he is very fat and short. He loves to eat all things like fast food, healthy food, juices, tea, and coffee. He doesn’t marry. Still now he can’t cook. He has a facebook and yahoo. He has friends, they love him so much. He came 4 years ago, to Amman and he was happy so much and also he loves facts. He is very smart and intelligent. He knows lot of information.
Written and typed by Selselbeel
International Earth Day
Last Monday was International Earth Day.
At the jama3ia, we decided to have our own celebration — a Baqa’a Clean Up day!
In general, there is a big problem with trash in Jordan. This is also a big problem in Baqa’a. Many people leave their trash on the ground ( litter ) and there are not good services to clean up the trash.
Photos taken by students in Samir’s Photography Workshops
It started with the youngest kids. We talked about why its important to clean up after ourselves and not leave trash on the ground. Then, we colored pictures about the environment. Finally, we finished by learning a song (“Look Around — What is there? — Pick up trash! — Clean the Earth!”)
Nadine filmed the students’ work and she will make a video for the jama3ia to remember the day!
Next all the older students become to work on their own project — cleaning up the jama3ia!
Together, we cleaned the roof and the outside. There was a lot of trash and glass, but we finished quickly with everyone working together!
Now, the jama3ia looks beautiful and we will be able to play outside during the nice summer days!
All the above photos are from Ihab and Marah.
You can look at more photos from the day in the post below!!
Baqa’a Clean Up Day! – Photos by Marah and Ihab
ya3teek al3fia!
Happy Birthday Miss Biff!
Miss Biff turned 23 on Sunday, April 7th!
The students in the Saturday English Program decided to make her a surprise gift — a video of birthday wishes! Miss Biff had NO idea that throughout the whole day, students were quietly going into another room to make her this gift… and she was SO surprised when she saw the film!
Happy Birthday Miss Biff!
BIFF from Julie Whittaker on Vimeo.
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