Peacecamp 2007

This was Peacecamp 2007 for me:

It was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever been in!!!!
I learned so many new things in the camp (as like dancing waltz and tango and Hungarian traditional dance and many more).
My English was improved too and I got quickly the self confidence of speaking English, mostly because I felt safe and welcome in the environment where we have been in, and because I was understood very well by the other participants and the adults.
I felt I can communicate freely and be understood very well and to talk even on subjects that it's hard for me to talk about them (the war last year in Israel, my feelings, my thoughts, etc.).
The people which came to the camp were wonderful teenagers, whom are very unselfish people, who came to the camp because they care of what happening in the world and they want to change it.
At the Peacecamp I did things that I would have never done at home (movement activities mostly). Activities I understood that I came to the camp to do them also.
The guiders (as I think so) were amazed of level of the taking part at the activities. The kids didn’t ask questions and didn’t argue with the guiders, they just did what they said, and it worked, and everybody enjoyed the activities!!!!!
Between the kids at the camp became a very close relationship, and even before the camp was over, everybody started thinking about reunion and how to communicate with each other. It means that it was a very good experience for everybody and not only for me. The participants became very good friends, without a connection to their religion, culture and homeland.
We learned that differences are not an obstacle for peace!!!
We all lived in peace for whole 10 days, so why can't we all live together in peace?
I came back to Israel from this camp with a lot to think about:
About how can I change the situation now? How can I break up stigmas and paradigms? What are the things that I learned in the Peacecamp that will be able to help me? And many more questions.
In the Peacecamp learned so many new things about me that I didn’t know. It changed me positively. It change my way of viewing at world, at the people in my country, at my friends, at my family and at myself.
In my country there is a project which is called "Lead". It didn’t interested me at first time, but now, after I had been in this camp, I really think seriously to go there, because I learned a lot about myself and about teamwork, On me as a leader and as a part of a group. Now I understand the importance of this project, and how it can help me to help the world, to help other people and to help myself.
I wrote an e-mail to Evelyn which in I told her that she can't give up her dream. that she must continue with this project which is called Peacecamp. I could see what I think she wanted us to see: the subject of the Peacecamp was "imagine peace". And I, as I think everybody in the camp, was able to see the peace and not only to imagine it!!!
I also wrote her that the place she picked up for doing the camp, Reibers, was the perfect place for the goal of the camp. It was a quiet and peacefully place which in we felt safe and didn’t have to worry on everything except for the activities and the goal of the Peacecamp. I asked her to do the next camp in this place/ in a place as peacefully and quiet as Reibers.
Thank you from all of my heart for this one time experience. I will never forget it.

if you want those are pictures from asaf's camera, you need to download it. first press and the link and then press "free". this is the link to the site:
http://israblog.nana10.co.il/blogread.asp?blog=445801
Segev

dear evelyn.
thank you from all my heart.
this camp changed my life so much.
i ask you never to give up on the dream of peace on earth.
it is a wonderful dream and if you give it up it will make me so sad
do that camp as many times as you can. please.
yesterday the flight was very good, and we back to israel with a lot to think.
yesterday was the first year day for the first day of the second lebanon war and it was wired to back at the same day after all that happend with the alarm at the camp. but now i feel totaly different about it and it all thanks to you.
you've chosen a great place for the camp, and i hope the next camp will enjoy at a place like this if not at the same place.
dash ham to ronny and everybody from the camp, they all were the right people for the goal at the camp.
please give silvio this email too, and if someone else wants, give him too, please.
let me know here, at the email, when you will come to visit in israel.
maybe do more large group at the next camp. and maybe do it in israel because then people will understand more what is israel and that it is not only a war zone, it is also a beautiful country, with charming people, that really want peace.
yours.
segev elnir.

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aa.. hey guys it was so good.. I'm very happy to share this apportunaty with you all... and thank you for the pictures..!!! aren't you miss me??
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Evelyn

Hi you guys and girls,
I am just back from Vienna airport and you are now on your way home.
I would be very happy to get from each of you a short statement, an essay with the title:
"this was peacecamp 2007".
I will try to get some of your articles published. But I would need them before the end of the month (july) in order to be able to place them for publication.
Love to all,
evelyn