peacecamp 2011

Andrea's peacecake

Challot on Jewish Culture evening

Wiener Walzer

Hungarian specialities

Arab specialities

shirts4peace with peacecamp-logo

show4peace

This was Peacecamp 2011

Since I took part in peacecamp quite spontaneously, I wasn’t sure what was going to await me.
The original reason to participate in peacecamp was to write a paper about it for school.
Though the bottom line is that this time- for me unfortunatley only the last four days because I couldn’t make it earlier- was pretty much more than just work for school.
The prevailing atmosphere is hard to discribe. But from the very first moment I could feel that there existed a strong unity between all the participants, no matter which age or nationality. Still I really felt accepted and comfortable as “the newcomer”.
However it’s not “just” about making friends and having lots of fun together but also getting to know other cultures and opinions, learning how to discuss and listen to each other in a group, finding together solutions to promote peace.
In the end it was hard to everybody to part with each other because everybody got so close.
To me it was a great experience and I am really thankful that I had the change to participate in peacecamp. I would love to do it again! Also I want to thank all those people who enable this project, they are doing a really great job!

Saskia

I’m Firas Habib. For me peace camp was a unique experience that I never went through anything alike it . I met people that I would never even think of meeting before. From places far away from home =) .I learnt a lot about other cultures and languages. I listened the other side of the conflict (the Jewish-Israeli) opinions. I had the opportunity to share my opinion with other people and to listen to other’s opinion . I hope the peace camp program continues so other people can also experience this amazingly fun camp .
Firas Habib,
The Palestinian delegation
PeaceCamp 2011.

What peace-camp was for me …

Well it's kind of difficult to explain this amazing experience in words but ill try my best. At first we got to the airport, I saw a group of so many children and I thought to myself, am I really going to get to know all these people so good that it's going to be hard to say goodbye?! Later on I discovered that it will be harder then I thought…
We arrived at our house (I allow myself to call it "our house" because it felt like that exactly and all the people there felt like a big family). I was sitting in the room, and around me I am hearing 4 different languages, and I am like, what's going on here…?
After we had our first meeting everything started to feel better, we got to know each other and I felt great! During the days we participated in various workshops. During this peace camp and these workshops, a lot of stigmas that I had changed… I learned a lot about each culture. What they eat, there history, and there songs..
This experience was so unique; it's really hard to explain how much we had fun there! When we needed to say goodbye it was harder then I thought, we got to know these people like brothers and sisters... We try to keep in touch by emails or facebook and we are planning to meet next summer again!
tahel lekach