Hiiiiiiii,
I am Thana, one of group that participated in the Amman training sessions that started on 18th, Nov. that Simmons College is responsible for.
I want first to thank Dr Michele, Dr Harvey, and Meaghan about the big efforts they did to succeed in geting this training, and many thanks also for each one who shared and supported this training program.
I like to talk about the name of our 2 group – for our group work , we choice this 2 names – 1. Chula College and 2. Lala College.
When we call anyone chula in Iraq that means he is a trouble maker. A chula is a small cooker that works in ceirouseen (kerosene) and almost all Iraqi use it in cooking because of gas and power problems. Using a chula is always boring and exhausting and needs a long time for cooking.
Lala is a lighter – we use it for lighting because of electricity problems. If u forget lala at night, you will find your face at morning like aubergine. (This was all done in good fun and made each group ? each team ? compete with each other in a productive way. Harvey)
At training we enjoyed our lessons and discussion and also the time for fun and shopping was wonderful.
I hope we will meet again, and we wish another meeting that will be in Iraq. We pray that Iraq will be safe to meet our american friends and make them show how much Iraqi people are generous and how much Iraq is wonderful place.
(Note: the above only lightly modified by Harvey Varnet, who was asked by Thana to do so and send to the blog.)