February 1, 2003

Students singing at the 10th grade picnic.

Students dancing at the 10th grade picnic.

All students arrived this morning, although the Jenin students' bus was held up for an hour at a checkpoint. Elizabeth accompanied the tenth graders on their class picnic where they enjoyed the beautiful sunshine, singing and playing, and teaching each other the dance to the "Ketchup Song".

Marthame went by the Latin Convent in the evening to work with Deacon Homam on production of the Christmas Pageant. From what we can tell, all the components - software, hardware, etc. - are there, patched together from local and American products, but it just ain't working. Right when we thought we had it all figured out, there was a sudden loss of electricity. They are always temporary, but sometimes longer than others. When we went to sleep, there still wasn't any power.