{"id":562,"date":"2009-07-06T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=562"},"modified":"2009-07-06T13:24:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:24:56","slug":"in-ramallah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2009\/07\/06\/in-ramallah","title":{"rendered":"In Ramallah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got to Ramallah after 20 hours and 7 modes of transportation. It’s a busy town, but not quite as chaotic as I had expected. The traffic lights are respected, there is trash pickup, and there are internationals seemingly everywhere.<\/p>\n

The lodging is great, sharing with a bunch of very friendly and helpful folks. We had excellent Indian food for the first night, and for several days of leftovers since. Spent the first day recovering from jetlag and walking around the neighborhood, and the last two volunteering with Nitin’s project, Voices Beyond Walls<\/a>. It’s a two week camp where kids from Jerusalem and Shufat camp learn to make short films. We did a small mapping exercise to start, asking the kids to show us their neighborhoods and the places that make them unique. They had a surprisingly good spatial sense, and made pretty good maps.<\/p>\n

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\"Kids<\/a><\/p>\n

Kids in the Hammam<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Our<\/a><\/p>\n

Our tour guides<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Anne<\/a><\/p>\n

Anne getting them to explore the scene<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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\"Shufat<\/a><\/p>\n

Shufat kid enjoying popsicle<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Shufat<\/a><\/p>\n

Shufat kid enjoying popsicle<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Tired<\/a><\/p>\n

Tired at the end of the day<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


Setting up meetings for later in the week with NGOs. I finished the upload of the west bank to OpenStreetMap, and now it’s merged it with the Israeli one. If only integration in the real world were so easy…<\/p>\n

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\"Dome<\/a><\/p>\n

Dome of the Rock<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Wall at Qalandia<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Wall<\/a><\/p>\n

Wall between Shufat and Jerusalem<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got to Ramallah after 20 hours and 7 modes of transportation. It’s a busy town, but not quite as chaotic as I had expected. The traffic lights are respected, there is trash pickup, and there are internationals seemingly everywhere. The lodging is great, sharing with a bunch of very friendly and helpful folks. We had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17,48],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping-palestine","tag-c4fcm","tag-palestine"],"geo":{"latitude":31.8999996,"longitude":35.2000008,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}