One of the other international volunteers is leaving today so we all went out for cocktails last night. These range from about 4 shekels for a small cocktail to about 12 shekels for a bucket. They are a fantastic breakfast as wellbeing a mixture of fruit smoothie, cereal, pieces of fruit and ice cream. Truly a meal in itself. Breakfast this morning was pretty amazing as well. We all sat down to a small omlette with a bowl of a yoghurt type mixture containing mint and tomatoes and ate this with pitta bread. Divine. All for 8 shekels! (just over £1) The 'cafe' was in the old city and definitely somewhere that I need to ensure that I can find again. Infinitely better than the £3 a day I spend on a soul-less sandwich from the BP garage across the road from work.

Today I have no classes but have arranged to visit al-mustaqbal, the centre I worked at for three days during April. I am looking forward to seeing the staff again but I can't quite believe that a full teaching week has gone by so soon. I am glad that I started teaching straight away and didn't decide to wait until next week. Tomorrow is the weekend and some people are off to Petra in Jordan and I'm going to Jenin (North of Nablus) with a few of the others. Project Hope has staff and contacts there so we will have a productive time as opposed to wandering around blindly like tourists. It will be good to see another of the West Bank towns having only visited Nablus and Ramallah so far. So probably no posts on here tomorrow but I will be back on Saturday as I have classes again on Sunday.