Hi, it's Mya, Jessica and Holly (not Saffron) writing to you to tell you about a game we played today.

In the game we played, we all had to go to our imaginary sister's wedding in Nablus at 2:30 pm (actually, Holly and Mya have sisters. I don't, so my one was imaginary.) We started our journey in Hebron, and we had to make a pit-stop at Ramallah to pick up our sister's wedding cake. On the way, there were several checkpoints, so we had to change our leaving time to account for that. I left the earliest, at 6:00 am, Mya left at 8:00 am and Holly left the latest, at noon. During the game, Mya got sent home twice, I got stopped at a checkpoint for two hours, and Holly got stopped for three hours. Because of this, and lots of other stops, Holly was three hours late to the wedding. Mya and I were early to the wedding, but we forgot to calculate the actual time to takes to travel, so in the end Mya was about an hour late, and I was an hour early (YAY). Unfortunately, this meant that Holly was six hours late and her cake melted into a puddle of something.

We were shocked to find out that when you wanted to travel in Palestine, you had to plan far ahead, and leave very early to ensure you arrived on time. Here in the UK, we can go wherever we want whenever we want, and the only thing that really slows us down is traffic.

When I (Mya) was in France I had to wait to get into the country but only for a few minutes. The longest time I had to wait was when I was going back into the UK and there was problems with the trains and checking our passports this took around three hours and I got home late but this only happened once and was because of delays with the trains.

We have a few questions for you now :3
How long does it take more on average with the checkpoints to go to places?
Do you get sent home often on the checkpoints?
What do you do while you wait at the checkpoints?
Do you get sick of waiting at the checkpoints?

That's all, thanks, hope to hear from you soon.

Jessica, Mya, Saffron and Holly!