israeli group, koren and yoni

hello everybody. this is koren and yoni.
today is the forth day in this camp.
we want to talk about our last few days here in Austria in the ´´dialouge for the future´´ camp.
in the first day, we met the people which will be with us in this camp for the next 2 weeks. at the beginning it was a little bit strange to know a lot of people from so many countries. we were concerned that we would not get along with the poeple in the camp, but eventually it was great.
on the second day, we got to know each other better through games. we played games and through the games we learned to know each other. it was really fun get to know everyone around, although at the beginning it was hard to remember all the names, but now we know them better. as the day went on, we got to know the different countries that are in the camp.
at the palestinian presentation we felt a bit attacked by them. they were talking about the hard
situation that they have and they said things about the israelis soliders. all of that
was a bit scary and got us emotional, but they explained to us later what they meant so we
calmed down.
in the third day, we had many activities outside. we divided up into mixed groups of three
that are not from the same country. the combinations of different nations made us closer to each other and we got more connected with, so that was a good experience. we had a lot of fun
and we learned new things about ourselves. later on that day we went to a close by park and we were again divided into two groups. we learned about team work and leadership and we solved
the riddles. we had three riddles so we had to work together and that is how we learned to
solve problems as a team and accomplished the mission that we were given by the staff.
the israeli group were really in the lead in these tasks (especially koren) .
today, we had workshops and we learned how to solve conflicts using the facts before beliefs.
we had to choose between different workshops and me and yoni chose the dancing. it was
really great and so was veronika, the dancing teacher.
by the way, now we are more involved in this process of finding a solution to the
israeli-palestinian conflict and we are looking forward to the discusions about it.
we wish everybody here a good time and pleasant time and hopefully we will go out
with somthing to the future, although we already have so many tools to do it.
so until next time, this is yoni and koren wishing a good day and a good week, stay
tuned for more! bye