Happy Birthsday Najeya

Yesterday was Najeya's Birthday.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag und ein glückliches gesundes Leben wünschen wir Dir.

Debora & Nael

in holland again

Dear family
i have arrieved to holland 2 days ago.the travelling took so long and too long has passed without any sleep. but i arrived now. i saw nael for a couple of hours, had lunch and chilled a bit. i am in maastricht now for a couple of days then i will go see Bisan, and after that , my flight to Argentina is on the 4th of October...
i am fine and miss all of you already....
love ya
* bisan ,i dont have my dutch phone anymore...but u can call me on Martin's 0621933394

What is " family"?

FAMILY = father and mother I love you

(F) father
(A) and
(M) mother
(I) I
(L) love
(Y) you

nice poem

I ran into a stranger as he passed by, "Oh excuse me please" was my reply.

He said, "Please excuse me too; I wasn't watching for you."

We were very polite, this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye.

But at home a different story is told, How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal, My son stood beside me very still.

When I turned, I nearly knocked him down "Move out of the way," I said with a frown.

He walked away, his little heart broken. I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.

While I lay awake in bed, God's still small voice came to me and said,

"While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use, but the family you love, you seem to abuse.

Go and look on the kitchen floor, You'll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers he brought for you. He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.

He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise, you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes.

" By this time, I felt very small, And now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by his bed; "Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.

"Are these the f lowers you picked for me?" He smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.

I picked 'em because they're pretty like you. I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue.

" I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today; I shouldn't have yelled at you that way.

" He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay. I love you anyway.

" I said, "Son, I love you too, and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."

new vedio for my kids

if you are intrested to see my kids go to www.youtube.com and search for "yazan abuaita" so you can see yazan while he is moving as a dog. and search for "hazar's birthday"so you can see hazar with her friends in her birthday

Dafer left Palestine

Today Dafer left Palestine to Jordan. His plane leaves early morning to Paris and then to Dusseldorf. He will have first lunch by Nael and Deborah in Germany and then will continue to Maastricht.

Today Saif won the election and became member of the Student Senate in his school. He got the second highest rank with one voice different from the first. All his block won except one but luckily enough George the son of Ghassan won instead. Afternoon, he went to play football but he fainted in the playground and was sent to the clinic in Beit Sahour where he was treated. In the beginning they wanted to send him to the hospital but after a while this measure proved to be unneeded. He is back, healthy like a monkey, home but needs some rest.

Uncle Jamil is still in the intensive care without good indications that he would recover the coma he is in sicne one whole week.

drunking master 2

Every Friday a man is coming in a pub and drinking two glass bier and two glass wine.
One day the holder of the pub ask the man why he drinking every Friday 2 glass bier and wine.
The man anther him, "oh every Friday i and my best friend are drinking one glass bier and win, but now my friend is in Amerika and i drinking for me and him."

One day the man is coming in the pub and other one glass bier and wine.
The holder ask him" what´s happend with your friend?.
"oh, nothing, but i stop drinking"

drunking master

a man is drinking,
drinking,
drinking,
and
drinking.
the barkipper ask him "why you are drinking so much?"
" Because i have a many problemes."
"And you find the solution?"
"No, but i forget the probleme"


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Rifat's Book

here is a new blog for Rifat's book.
Please send the link to all, who might be interested AND still didn't get the book as a present !!

http://rifatkassisbook.blogspot.com/

Uncle Jamil, Abu Ghassan, is still in the hospital. He is almost in coma and his situation is very critical. Yesterday, the whole family, was in the hospital till late. Today is another critical day for him and we wish him recovery.

Update from Germany

Qais is fine. He's recovering, maybe Wednesday he'll go home.

Sunday, there will be a photo exhibition in Cologne, organized by the Beit Sahour's Mustausaf Association.

Dafer: this blog is not my email inbox !

kisses

Happy Birthday Issa

Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday Issa.

Have a nice day and be the king today.
It your day.


best wish from Jeremias Geronimo, Mia-Cheyenne, Manuela, Gassem, Kawkab and Jamal.

happybirthday to Qassim, Hazar

Happybirthday Qassim, and happy anniversary to you and Manuella.
better late than never :)

happy birthday Hazar

Happy birthday Hazar

Happy Birthday Qassem and Happy Aniversary

dear Qassem, Dear Manuela
i hope u a day full of love and happiness. and a more successful year filled with those who love you.
all the best and a faxless Day
Dafer

HapPy BiRthDay HazaR

HaPpy BiRthDaY tO yOu
HaPpy BiRthDaY tO yOu
HaPpy BiRthDaY DeAr

HazAR

HaP-py BiRth-DaY tOoOoO yOuOuOuOu

happy birthday and anniversary

Happy birthday for Qasem and happy anniversary for Manuela and Qasem.
Rifat and Ibtisam

from Nael:
click here to hear your song Qasem

Happy Birthday To Qassem And Happy Universery To Qassem and Manuella

Don't forget to say happy birthday to Qassem and 3ukbal 100 sana

Yazan on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6MbmiAf3qE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3q3ASTwTeI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hBAVOeRLfE

This is Yazan...
enjoy we are famous...

football game

Last week, they convince, actually obliged, me to go and attend the football match. From the start it was clear that this would be a special occasion to laugh and have fun. As mentioned by Defer, there were many people who wanted to participate and play. Of course the youngest generation, like Maher, Saif, Marwan, Barhoum and to some extent Defer were more ready and physically fit than the others. To make a long story short they divided themselves into three teams and gave me the “honor” to watch the time and announce the start and the end of the match.
The first round started at 22.00 when Simon tried to kick the ball. He lifted his leg more than necessary and got immediately his first stiff in his upper part. Of course this did not convince him to sit in the audience seats, like myself, and continued limping running after the ball without success to touch it. At the end Midhat managed to bring him out of the match and even the field when his head and, according to many observers, his two legs jumped into his chest and broke one rip for him. Simon went out and Midhat got his medallion in wrestling.
Munir, was the best among the elderly players and kept his image as an old player and managed to score even. According to him, he played better than the previous match due to the fact that Janet was after him, shouting and chanting against him and his team. This provoked him positively. According to Hani, Munir plays better than before due to the kind of “Musal” he used in that game…two apples.
Dr. Ghassan, was the goalkeeper. It seems nobody briefed him what does it mean to be the goal keeper and that he can use his hands to catch the ball if needed. He just used his bottom every time the ball approached him. It did not work well with his team although his bottom enjoyed the game more than him. Midhat, after he broke Simon and left Simon’s team without a defender, he just ran after the members of the team apologizing.
Issa abu Aita, was the surprise. He got the first prize for not touching the ball at all. He did his best and ran after the ball in all directions but without success of touching it. After the game he said that his problem was that there were shortage of balls in the field. He preferred at least three balls. Any way he insisted that he was the best runner among the participants. According to Rula, Issa did not perform well enough in the game due to the fact the ball too round for Issa and he preferred the ball to be square. The organizers promised to see what they can do in the next match.
Maher and Dafer competed on who is going to score more. Rami did his best to heat the competition between them. At the end Maher stopped seeing any player in the field and he played by himself and for himself. Defer managed to continue being sober. Rami, besides heating up the game, he did his contribution well. He accompanied the goalkeeper of the enemy team and he managed to create enough clouds over his head from his smoke, the matter which forbid the goalkeeper from seeing the ball.
Saif, Barhoum and Marwan were the stars of the game and managed to score. They also found the time to laugh from the bottom of their hearts every time one of the elderly tried to maneuver with them.
Ramez was the ideal player. He played clean and managed to create good impressions. Qatar asked him to join its team which he will do. Observers said that he played well due to the fact that Mahira did not attend and he focused on the ball.
Of course there were many other players which I might write later about their contribution.
At the end and before the game was officially declared over the lights in the field went off. This rescued all players and gave the chance to blame something for their failure. No one agrees about the results of the game and went out thinking that he won.

nael and deborah. i think am gonna have to stay at ur place on the eve of the 28th...
i arrive dusseldorf round nightesh, so there will be no bus to maastricht
so i'll stay that night at urs, have royal nael breakfast in the morning, and maybe lucnh, and then go to aachen,meet nassim , then maybe stay a night there, and then to maastricht, then to bisans
more information will follow

heyaa

hello people
things in Beit Sahour are ok
we played football the other day, which was also very much fun. more people came this time that we had to create 3 teams instead of 2. it was fun...we had lots of people watching and they did laugh quite alot.
i haven't been writing much caues i am too lazy to sign in :) but i am here now so u enjoy this...
welcome back nael and deborah. too long of a message that you wrote, i have to read it in parts :)
but i do hope u enjoyed ur triip
as for the computer fighting, naaa, we all have our own now. me ,my father,and saif :)
more news later
Nael, is ur bag ready to be taken from you!? put a picture of it for me to see if it fits my style :P
salamat

Ibtisam's and Rifat's Family - an Open Letter

All of us are very happy for you, that four of you are living together in Beit Sahour after so many years. I can imagine Rifat organizing a "Foul"-Breakfast-Party, Saif is happy to fight with someone for the Computer again and Ibtisam is not watching TV at night alone (which might be quite laborious for her; having to wash fakkus, to bake green hummos) hehe, I know you enjoy it, i wish i would also get such service.
Where are you guys?!
Rifat, tell us about your new work.
Dafer, what about your Pra-kti-KON?
and Saif, after being the most active publisher, you gave up so fast for Gassem.. either the most active or the laziest! man.

really looking forward to hearing from you

Today I'll tell you about my summer- Part1

My beloved family,
Last week we came back to Germany, after a long nice vacation in Portugal.

Geography of Setubal
In Portugal we stayed in Setubal (50km south of Lisbon), the city where Debora comes from. The Ocean in that area makes a golf between two half islands; The peninsula of Setubal and Troia, which is a "tongue" of desert white sand no wider than from the Iskan to Share3 el 7atoum and about 10 km long.
The story tells that Troia was created after a big sand storm from the Moroccan Sahara.
You got it, right.. two half islands and a golf in between..
To the south of the upper half island (peninsula of Setubal) lies the mountains of Arrabida (you can see the photo from my old post before the trip). These mountains were on fire 3 years ago (you remember the news about fire everywhere in Portugal). Now you see the bushes coming up again.

Beach
At the bottom of the mountains are the beaches of Arrabida. These beaches have very clear light blue water, that you can even see your shadow on the sand under the water while you are swimming, IF you can swim, because the water is fucking frozen there. You need really to be tough before you enter the water, or you'll feel a Tarzan after you go out. Generally water is cold in the atlantic, it's about 17°C but in some places you can get 20° and in other places 14°.
Personally i don't get cold quick so i can stay long time inside the water.

The Fish Bourse
Setubal has an important regional fish bourse. I would like to explain you how it functions:
The Bourse is a big building with two main divisions, the stock exchange on the see side and the merchandise on the street side of the building.
Fishermen boats and big fishing boats come from the see directly to the stock exchange, where each fisherman (for example: Sayad) separates the fish he got due to the kind into opened boxes. Sayad got lots of sardines which go in one box, the salmon in another box, and the only one octopus he got today would go in a separate box. He gives the boxes to the administration, who put his name and number on the box.
This part of the Bourse looks like a theater, the fish boxes and the administration are on the stage, the buyers are the sitting public and the exit door is the cash.
Buyers, who must have a registered tax paying business sit in front of the boxes carrying an electric device which looks like a remote control.
And now starts the selling... two men are standing behind a rolling belt, beside them are the fish boxes over each other and over them is a big screen. These men put the first box on the belt and another man tips in the computer the kind of fish inside the box. The hanged huge screen shows the kind of fish inside the box, the weight and ... now concentrate.. it shows the price which starts from the maximum and rolls down very quick until one buyer presses the bottom "stop" on his remote control to be at this moment the owner of this fish.
An example: The box has Sreda, 10 Kg, price starts with 15 and goes rapidly down.. 14.90,14.80..,12.00, 11.90, ... 7.60, 7.50 "STOP" (the person who clicked stop at this moment is the buyer of this box of 10 Kg of Sreda for 7,50€)
A little paper with the name of the of this buyer and the price at the moment he pressed stop would be printed out and fall in the box, while the box continues sliding to the paying corner.
And so on until all fish is sold and no more new boxes are coming.
When a buyer is finished, he leaves his seat goes to collect his boxes and pays at the cash.
The buyers gather the fish they bought together and go to the merchandise section, where they sell their fish in big quantities for restaurants, and little fish sellers of the daily fish market.
This all happens in the night. It starts about 10 p.m and finishes in the early morning.
The day after you can go to the daily fish market, where you can buy only two kilos of Sardine for ten euro for a nice grill party.

All for today, coming next "Alcasser al-kebir", "Porto Covo" and some recipes.

Where are the people?

What happend to the blog? It's been days since anyone posted anything on it, including the active members! Did we enter a stage of early hibernation? Come on and delight us with your participation... NOW :)

In time

Hallo dar kassis,

Saturday 15. sep. 2007 if you have time, if you have realy time.

Don´t say i have time and in last min. oh sorry i forget me dog have birthday.

I, Gassem Mitri, make my birthdayparty on Saturday the 15. of Sep. in the year 2007 the party will be started on 5 o´clock pm.

And now, wellcome for all dar kassis.

Don´t say, i don´t now there was a party, oh it(i )was to late you have 14 day to ready.

You have enough time to buy a new dress, a present or cancel all you meeting´s.

see on 15. 09 .2007 5 p.m.

Birthdayparty

Yesterday was the birthdayparty vom Bernd and Reham (Bernd had on tuesday 28.08).

Bernd is now 30 year old and he say "oh, now i´m a old man" to me, to me ,to me. Hallo in two weeks i´m 39 year young.

It was good. We have BBQ and beer, wein, cola, fanta, sprite and beer and beer and i forgot beer.

And for the kid´s (young and old more old as young) sweet. HARIBO you know.