October 31, 2001

Marthame went into Jenin to get the letterhead exact - hopefully for the last time. The road was the worst so far, the road from the Arab-American University of Jenin. Every road is closed, and so every "road" is necessarily a dirt road through the fields. Since the rain has begun, it won't be long before it's completely impassable. People are joking that every village is becoming an island, but no one is laughing.

Hoops.

We headed up to the University later on in the afternoon to see a basketball game between the Zababdeh club team and the University club team. The game, which was supposed to start at 3:00, began at 5:00 - either we were on "Arab time" or Greenwich Mean Time - one of the two. Unfortunately, the Zababdeh team got creamed. Better luck next time...