First Student Deceleration Meeting (3.3)

so for the first time ever for an Interruptions meeting, people show up at 9.55 to a 10.00 am meeting! Muhtaraf al Rimal's door was still locked, the sun was rudely arrogant and over 20 interruptionists gathered outside eager to declare intentions!

quite an insperational scene to wake up to this morning-

we sat around a circle which turned to be two halves of a circle where JU students clustered at one half and JUST students at the other penetrated by some Yarmouk and ASY students here and there and a GJU student in the middle! But I was certain this would break soon positively because of my belief that no person would ever wake up on a weekend before 9am at the ridiculously hot weather and make it all the way to Lwaibdeh, (with stylized hair) to find the door locked and still wait without really being up to something!

and 'something' was what were up to!

in a matter of minutes everyone began to 'click'- the conversations went on to many aspects, emotions, ideas and opinions were unleashed and it was time to break into the designed workshop format!

in 5 discussions group, we discussed 5 topics concerning education, the role of institutions, the role of students, solutions, negatives and an alternative utopia.

each group responded to the given topic in 5 points to summarize their full hour discussion!

the points were presented to the rest, elaborated and then given to each group as an assignment to rephrase into five solid statements.

these statements will be posted on the blog gradually as they come in to Interruptions inbox, and updates about the final format of the "document" will be posted as well-

I didnt find an evaluation of the meeting neccessary because one noted thing was how passionate and eager each one of the participants was- I hope we could arrange for a meeting once the document is out in its final form to present it to a wider audience

thanks for everyone who shared his/her morning hours with us today