Question: Does your family have any traditions? If so, what are they?

Question: Does your family have any traditions? If so, what are they? (Kaitlyn)

Question: Does the government affect Balata in any way?

Question: Does the government affect Balata in any way? (Kaitlyn)

Question: Is there a lot of American influence where you live?

Question: Is there a lot of American influence where you live? (Dave)

Question: Have your living conditions in Balata changed since you were born? If so, how?

Question: Have your living conditions in Balata changed since you were born? If so, how? (Tim)

Question: What are your favorite hobbies? (What do you like to do for fun?)

Question: What are your favorite hobbies? (What do you like to do for fun?)

Question: What kind of foods are unique to your area?

Question: What kind of foods are unique to your area? (Kaitlyn)

Question: Do the problems between Israel and Palestine affect your lives daily? If so, how?

Question: Do the problems between Israel and Palestine affect your lives daily? If so, how? (Dave)

Question: What do you do during the day?

Question: What do you do during the day? (from Tim)

Hello all! After chatting with Nicky in Skype today, I learned that the Balata student group has formulated some questions for our Minnesota group! Here they are below, for Minnesotan students to answer.  I’ve made each one a separate post,

2) Do you have a national dress?

3) Is there a specific way for teaching in Minnesota?

4) How do you treat each other?

5) Do you have values in your community? What are they?

6) What kinds of animals do you have? And how do you treat them?

7) We want to know about the education in Minnesota. 

Meet the Minnesota Students!

Hello again! As we work on linking individual blogs to name tags up above under the Minnesota drop down menu, we thought we’d post our student blogs here as well.  We’re very excited to start getting to know you, to

Hello from Minnesota, USA!

Hello, all! On behalf of the students at BlueSky Online High School in Minnesota, USA, we are so excited to begin working with you! I am an Art Teacher at BlueSky, which is a school that exists entirely over the