Dina: I think it was intense, I don't think it was super intense, I wasn't you know, wiped out after every day, it certainly leaves less room for you to just wander off on your own...sorry that is bad...but...it had a lot of, it was intense but there was flexibility but it was still structured, it was a good combination I felt.

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Tanjila: After the first shoot day, it was very exciting because Cordoba is a beautiful city. We had a very hectic day, so it was very tiring, exciting, but very interesting. I had been to Spain before and that was my first time in Andalusia. It is just amazing to see the architecture coming together and the definite Islamic and Moorish influence in the city. Also listening to the different comments made by Dina and Nezar and Michael, and seeing how much I was learning from what they were saying as well as from what our guides were saying, so I was very excited.

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Brie: Impressions after the first day of the shoot, I thought, wow, I am in Tulsa, I never thought I would be in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That was fantastic. It was quaint, I really enjoyed it. It was nice too. It was a little bit hard to negotiate who was going to do what and what our roles were. We were kind of all trying to figure out what we were supposed to do and why we were all there so it was a little like a bunch of people in the dark, trying to figure out what we were going to do. The shoot schedule was intense but as any graduate student will tell you, we do tons of jobs, so it is not too difficult to manage a bunch of things.

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Joseph: My first shoot day was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, right? The first shoot day was a little tiring but looking back it was probably one of the most interesting. Meeting Mohammad was probably one thing that sticks out in my mind as being, I don't know, shocking. But it was a big step for me and did a lot for the way I feel about Muslims and a Muslim my age and so it was...I thought the first day was probably one of the best and most interesting days.

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Daniel: I was exhausted, you know traveling out to the Middle East from Los Angeles is no easy trek. It was a long flight and it didn't end in Tel Aviv, we transferred airports in Tel Aviv to fly down to Eilat, so it was a very long day and it was very hot. But it was very much rewarding and I knew I was going to be in for a challenge and I welcomed the challenge and that is why I signed up for the project and I had no regrets.

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Zachariah: It was a bit overwhelming in some ways because we landed and we were immediately launched into a number of different activities. But landing in the Middle East, it is an overwhelming experience in many ways because it is so beautiful at one end and at the same time it is also very tense. You feel those competing impulses and you want to appreciate it for its beauty but you know of the underlying tension that exists at the same time.