Video from the summer exchange.  Thanks to Relief International and the US State Department.

Four of my students and I will be going to Palestine/Israel this summer to learn Arabic. We will be staying in Jerusalem. I am very excited. I want to speak Arabic better. When I was there before I studied Arabic but I feel that I’ve learned so much since that time that I am hoping the language will be easier to understand and more accessible for me. The students are very excited as well. We have been talking to the Palestinian students through a program called Relief International over an internet site. It’s been a lot of fun. Our local paper covered the story in a recent article on my “In the News” page or also in a post below. I have family there now as well.