June 4, 2003

The Latin Patriarchate School of Zababdeh, Palestine.

We spent the day at school, attending to various tasks. One of the school's teachers had been held up at the checkpoint the previous day. When he asked the other young men being held there, he discovered they had one thing in common: they were all named 'Ammar (a name as common as David in the States). It was clear the soldiers were looking for someone named 'Ammar, but how much more information they had than that wasn't clear.

In the evening, some friends from the University stopped by to say farewell - we're all parting separate ways this summer, but will meet up again in the Fall, inshallah (God willing).