September 12, 2003

Another day, another trip. Today we dragged ourselves out of bed and got ready to go to Haifa. We need to get some footage for our film - one of our subjects who now lives in Zababdeh grew up in Haifa, and fled her home in 1948. We'd hoped she could get permission to come with us, but was refused. So she connected us with some of her extended family in Haifa who agreed to meet us and show us around.

We bummed a ride with University folk headed to relax at the Sea of Galilee. They dropped us off in Afula, where we found the shared taxis headed to Haifa. Being Friday, it took a long time to fill up, but eventually we were on our way.

The city of Haifa and the Mediterranean from the top of Mt. Carmel.

We met up with our subject's cousin and family, who were kind enough to drive us all over the place to get the footage we needed: a visit to the old family home, where we walked around, looking at the old well site, how its new residents have expanded and built on the old foundations, up Mount Carmel where we could get a nice overview shot of the sea and the city, and then down to the beach, where Elizabeth and our hostess waded a bit and we got some shots of the water lapping and the rocks, the sound of which our subject fondly remembers to this day.

We managed to get everything we needed and get back to meet our University friends to bum a ride back to Zababdeh. Time again to shower and rest.