Effi and Leila were picked up by Adnan to go to lower Yanoun to watch for settler harassment during the combining that is due to start there today. This gave me a chance to do my laundry and maybe visit some people I have not been around to yet.

My Arabic teacher, Mohamed Zuhady, age 16, hadn't appeared at 12:00 as we had arranged, so I went up to his house for a visit. His father, Nimr Zuhady, 51, is a teacher in Aqraba, and speakes English tolerably well, but not as well as his children. He teaches mathematics and science in high school. His two oldest sons are in university in Nablus, one in civil engineering, the other in Arabic. The next child is a girl, Miriam, who passed her exams last year with superb marks. In mathematics she got 100, and all the other marks were very high. The family cannot afford the 6000NIS a year to send her to university. That's about $2000Cdn or $1500US.

Later I took my computer up and showed them some of the pictures I have been taking. Abed al-Latif has made of map of the settler encroachment on Yanoun. I took a picture of it and showed it to the family, but some of the writing was so small that they could not read it. I am going to take another in full resolution, then get one or more of them to sit with me and translate the labels. I can bring the image into Adobe Illustrator and dub in the English. The two university students and Mohammed are enthusiastic about the translation effort.