Beginning the exchange

(From the first morning at Grendon)
Participants had more things they hoped for than they were afraid of...

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE?

Links
Friends
Ta'awun (co-operation)
To learn about culture and society
To have fun/ enjoy myself
To have a good experience
To break barriers
Sunshine!

HOPES:

to make this programme work
to make a strong project
to keep communication between  us
to leave a good impression about Palestine
to have a chance to present my country to you
to get people to know about the Palestinian issue
to improve my language (English)
to gain new skills, for example group work
to understand about the situation in Palestine
to share different experiences and culture
to be useful
to be organise
for the programme to work according to plan
to work as a team
to have a clean environment
to understand each other

WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE?
Lack of respect for each other / each other's opinion
To find it boring
Anger
Misunderstanding
Accidents

HOPE NOT...
to make a mess or fail in some way
to lose communication between us
to have problems with accommodation
to have any conflicts.
not to achieve the goals

WE PROMISED EACH OTHER (as well as the groundrules in the book)
to respect each other
to LISTEN to each other
to co-operate
to be on time
to SAY if w have any problem.

DID IT WORK? YOU TELL US....