where to begin...

I thought I'd be able to fill this blog every single day but one thing that has kept me is an unexpected writer's blog. I created this blog a couple weeks ago and I've only been able to write once. Part of it is that I'm still trying to absorb everything around me. There is so much to take in. Everyone here has an extraordinary story that I want to capture. Everything around me I feel like I need to document-even the walls speak with the graffiti and history. It's quite overwhelming. I talked to another volunteer and she said she also experienced a similar writer's block when she came here. It took her a good month to be able to write anything (Check out her blog here: illusionstomemories.blogspot.com). It's so different here. Another part is that occupation is worse than anything I've read about! It's one thing to read articles and another to witness it first hand. I really don't know where to begin but I'm definitely going to start writing again. My friend explains part of the difficulty of expressing it all in her latest post: 

 Everything from the Israeli occupation and oppression—stupid frustrating terms that I feel are too big and bland to truly communicate what the hell happens here. They have become such blah sounds, sweeping under the rug the true explicit, atrocious, every-day occurrences. www.illusionstomemories.blogspot.com

Until I get my next post up, here is a picture of Palestinian boys in Hebron, Palestine posting stickers of cars on a road block before a checkpoint.

from the vantage point of children