Egged 99
Dream
When I grow up and get to be twenty, I'll travel and see this world of plenty, In a bird with an engine, I will sit myself down.Take off and fly into space, far above the ground. I'll fly and cruise and soar up high, Above a world so lovely into the sky. And so delighted by all the world's charms, Into the heavens I will take off and not have a bother, the cloud is my sister, the wind is my brother.
Abramek Koplowicz Murdered in Aushwitz at the age of 14.
Sorry to start off with something so heavy, but this poem hit me hard today. I decided to venture out and walk to the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, and once there I found egged bus 99. A double decker bus which tours the city of Jerusalem for two hours for only 45 shekels. You can get off at any point during the tour and pick the bus up two hours later at the same place, which is what I did today. My stop: Yad Vashem, Israel's holocaust memorial. I was able to tag along with a tour (yes I even asked their permission) and I learned a lot of very valueable information. The tour itself winds down in a logical pattern of rooms, in chronological order of events. After about the first three stations, I found myself very angry, because it was describing how Nazi Germany came to be. Then I found out that I had taken too long reading everything in the first three and I was being rushed on, for they were closing in twenty minutes. Luckily I found that poem Dream, which hit me like a ton of bricks when I read it. I thought of Ryan, who is twenty years old, travelling much like this young boy longed to do (I know Ryan, I am only four months older, but twenty fits the poem better than twenty-one). I only hope that Ryan and I might honor our family and friends back home by how we live our lives in regards to travelling, something many longed to do, and never got the chance. Well, onto lighter matter. A nice piece of irony, I got on the bus today and went to turn on my camera, when low and behold (I've never actually written that phrase out, is it lo or low? oh well) my batteries were dead. So to sum my day up, I saw pretty much all of Jerusalem in a nutshell and got some awesome views on top of Mt. Scopus and various other places, but you don't get to see them! I highly recommend that anyone coming to Israel do this tour. I was a little braver today as far as walking is concerned. On my way back from the bus station I got lost and ended up taking the longest possible route to get to my hostel, but the journey was fun. In Israel, as many know, there are certain places that are less than welcome to visitors. The other day, while walking back from the old city, I found myself lost and walking straight into Mea She'arim. Although I find it a little more inviting than stories have portrayed, it's still a place I don't want to just wander into. Well, I hope you don't get bored by all the text, there will be plenty of pictures in the months to come.
Shalom!
When I grow up and get to be twenty, I'll travel and see this world of plenty, In a bird with an engine, I will sit myself down.Take off and fly into space, far above the ground. I'll fly and cruise and soar up high, Above a world so lovely into the sky. And so delighted by all the world's charms, Into the heavens I will take off and not have a bother, the cloud is my sister, the wind is my brother.
Abramek Koplowicz Murdered in Aushwitz at the age of 14.
Sorry to start off with something so heavy, but this poem hit me hard today. I decided to venture out and walk to the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, and once there I found egged bus 99. A double decker bus which tours the city of Jerusalem for two hours for only 45 shekels. You can get off at any point during the tour and pick the bus up two hours later at the same place, which is what I did today. My stop: Yad Vashem, Israel's holocaust memorial. I was able to tag along with a tour (yes I even asked their permission) and I learned a lot of very valueable information. The tour itself winds down in a logical pattern of rooms, in chronological order of events. After about the first three stations, I found myself very angry, because it was describing how Nazi Germany came to be. Then I found out that I had taken too long reading everything in the first three and I was being rushed on, for they were closing in twenty minutes. Luckily I found that poem Dream, which hit me like a ton of bricks when I read it. I thought of Ryan, who is twenty years old, travelling much like this young boy longed to do (I know Ryan, I am only four months older, but twenty fits the poem better than twenty-one). I only hope that Ryan and I might honor our family and friends back home by how we live our lives in regards to travelling, something many longed to do, and never got the chance. Well, onto lighter matter. A nice piece of irony, I got on the bus today and went to turn on my camera, when low and behold (I've never actually written that phrase out, is it lo or low? oh well) my batteries were dead. So to sum my day up, I saw pretty much all of Jerusalem in a nutshell and got some awesome views on top of Mt. Scopus and various other places, but you don't get to see them! I highly recommend that anyone coming to Israel do this tour. I was a little braver today as far as walking is concerned. On my way back from the bus station I got lost and ended up taking the longest possible route to get to my hostel, but the journey was fun. In Israel, as many know, there are certain places that are less than welcome to visitors. The other day, while walking back from the old city, I found myself lost and walking straight into Mea She'arim. Although I find it a little more inviting than stories have portrayed, it's still a place I don't want to just wander into. Well, I hope you don't get bored by all the text, there will be plenty of pictures in the months to come.
Shalom!
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