English class and Movement class in Qira

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Observers: 
Sally Ann Friedland, Harriet Goitein (report)
Mar-24-2014
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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.