They call their camps "beit". When they move it isn't random; they have specific, known spots they move between. Interesting that they call them that, since we don't even pitch a tent. The beit doesn't move, we move to another beit. It's still a beit without any of our stuff in it. Also, one night Haneen and I were playing in the sand. (She draws alot of hearts, and words, and sometimes people.) I drew a square and asked her what it was, and she said "beit". How fascinating, for a girl not yet in school who's spent very little time in the village.
I didn't know how much of that was them dumbing the language down for me, but I asked another student who was more fluent in Arabic, and she confirmed my sense of the word usage.
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