Turmosayya is the Municipality in Palestine in the West Bank belongs to the Ramallah and Al Bireh area of eighteen square meters away from the city of Ramallah. 22 kilo meters to the north-east and is located in the middle between them and the city of Nablus. on the main line linking the two cities. Rises 720 meters above sea level, surrounded by the territory of the villages changer, Jalud, Sinjil, farm East, and Abu Falah. Estimated population in 1922 of approximately (707) people, and in 1945 (960) people, and in 1967 the number was (1562) people, and in 1987 (2636) people, and in 1996 rose to 3241 people (without migrants). Halel total population of about 10000 people, of whom about 4500 live in the Diaspora and distributed between the United States of America, Panama, Brazil, Jordan and Arab countries and Latin around the world.
Urban area of about 2250 acres and a total area of 17.600 acres and the most important crops also olive trees, figs, grapes and almonds, it is known that the lands of the village aware of the lupine is the cessation of the shrine of the Prophet Moses. Drink from a spring of water located in the south is weak at a distance of one kilometer in the village schools for the various stages. There’s a lot of beautiful places in it, like mountains and feeds and farms, you will enjoy when walking in it.
In the morning, when we were walking in tormosaya, I felt the soft gentle breeze caressed my face and cool my body. The breeze is simply beautiful and nature gives it free to me. Actually nature gives this free to everyone, but it seems that not everyone is aware of this.
Sometimes the sky is immensely blue. White silvery clouds glide almost imperceptibly against it. The clouds are never the same as they change their shapes continuously. These things are more beauty that I perceive around me.
When the sky turns black with thick heavy clouds, a distance curtain of falling rain can be seen. It appears as though some unseen hand is pouring water onto the land to nourish it. The sight is beautiful and it makes me feel closer to the beauty of the Earth.
The air is crisp and cool. Birds come out and sing out their joy to life. I sing too as I frolic on barefoot on the cool wet grass beside my house. The drogs croak joyfully. Even the insects seem to buzz and shriek louder. I am sure they are all singing about how beautiful life is. Indeed it is.
I return my house. Something inside me has been touched by the beauty of nature. I feel good. I go to sleep with the beautiful feeling inside me.
الخميس، 29 أبريل 2010
الأربعاء، 28 أبريل 2010
Learning through walking
When I went with my teacher and my friends to walk from Beit Jala to Bittir it was very interesting. It was a great experience I had. , In this walk I want to talk about Bettir. The first step of this walk, was that all the students gathered in order to go on our walk and then we met up with our teacher and began from there.
We started walking in the mountain of Bttir. A thought came to my mind about the landscape and its beauty.
I asked myself why I did not spend more time in my whole land. I always wonder why the Jews took the mountains, but now I understood why.
My life time journey in the valley of battir, it was the first time I see these places and notice its beauty, it's the feeling of heaven, and now I know why Jews settled in Palestinian territories.
“the Israelis , with an eye on security and military advantage , took the hilltops. this is why the settlement stand out .one can tell ,by looking at the hills ,a Jewish settlement from a Palestinian village.” Palestinian walks pg 161
When I observed the landscape and it’s beauty, I wanted to cry, I thought about Aslo Accord , in any case how did it help the Palestinians .And then in every step I begin to think about the imaginary , in each step I wonder if this is freedom. Why are our steps countable, why are our steps limited?
Cannot observe the land of our grandparents.
“Saba turned to me and said: " I have always known it the Israeli plan is to confine all of us in reservation in preparation for our eventual expulsion .just as they did in 1948” Palestinian walks pg 147
Plants so many, green, yellow and red, so wonderful .I could see this beauty every day its really the best relief for one’s soul, It’s a therapy for one’s soul to purify all the thought’s. Surrounded by all this beauty and nature.
As I walk among the rocks, I want to see the largest stone over there, to I shout at the top of my voice and say this is our land we are here, and then I was crying at the same time the air cleared my tears from my eyes, and I imagined him telling me, do not cry, you have to be strong to return this land to its owners, and you see the trees tell me that we bear all the odds, because we know that one day all the suffering would end , and the sun shines again. After I wiped my tears and laugh, because I felt Bloml again, and continued my journey.
“the settlements which had been at the heart of our struggle against the occupation were all around us , Israel was continuing to expand them and establish new ones on our land .” Palestinian walks pg 102
Whenever I see flowers, trees, and stone, you see through them, the suffering of the Palestinian people, and history of the Palestinian people, and after I saw the signs were present on the e rocks and trees are everywhere, I wonder what this means for the signals, and then I decided to ask a teacher about it, I went and I asked him, and he replied that it’s marks left behind from Israeli settlers, I'm stunned ,because when Israeli came to Palestine we gave them shelter and food.
And then I went to walk alone, because I do not want anyone to distract my thoughts, especially because I was talking with stones and trees, because humiliated anyone saw me talking with trees, plants and stones, will think is that I am crazy, for I know inside that I I'm doing is not mad, because everything is in the land has a story and a past, and that is when I look at trees and rocks I'm trying to read and know the story and the Forestry ..
And then we stopped to eat, ate and continued the journey, and then transplanting have brought olive trees because we want to grow this transplanting in the ground, we are looking for a suitable place in the land for agriculture, and my friends and I found a suitable place for agriculture, so we started digging in the ground , and then put seedling in the pit, and we covered in the dust, and wrote our names on it, and then planted another tree and another, and so I felt that I worked for something fixed, and I was proud of it a lot.
And then we took a break for rest, because we were very tired, my friend and I sat on a rock, and we talked about the journey, which has affected us too, and Wish if we can live in this nature, like heaven.
Now it's time to go to home, but I felt so sad because I want to stay more than this here, I want to observe more , I want to walk more than this, Unfortunately I cant do all of this because I cant stay here alone….
By the way, we went to the bus station to take taxi to go home, we took taxi from battir to Bethlehem , And we decided to walk in the streets of Bethlehem, and then we went on the Church of the Resurrection (Knesset alqyameh), and then came the bus which will take us from Bethlehem to Ramallah ....
“as soon as we left the taxi that brought us down close to wide Qelt we found ourselves almost running over the hills ,which were like a brown tapestry . we felt euphoric. being stuck in Ramallah , surrounded as it was with checkpoints at every exit , the experience o open space, whit no walls , no barriers and a wide open sky , made us giddy with joy.” Palestinian walks pg 138
and on the road to Ramallah in the bus, I was thinking about everything that has happened in this trip, the trip was a perfect and beautiful trip I learned a lot from it.
In the moment of times i remembered my original town, I mean from where I am.
It’s a place called DEER TARIF, I don’t know this town after the sixty seven war we been extinguished for our land, our homeland.
I wish one day I could tell my kids, about the land my grandparent’s grew up in.
We started walking in the mountain of Bttir. A thought came to my mind about the landscape and its beauty.
I asked myself why I did not spend more time in my whole land. I always wonder why the Jews took the mountains, but now I understood why.
My life time journey in the valley of battir, it was the first time I see these places and notice its beauty, it's the feeling of heaven, and now I know why Jews settled in Palestinian territories.
“the Israelis , with an eye on security and military advantage , took the hilltops. this is why the settlement stand out .one can tell ,by looking at the hills ,a Jewish settlement from a Palestinian village.” Palestinian walks pg 161
When I observed the landscape and it’s beauty, I wanted to cry, I thought about Aslo Accord , in any case how did it help the Palestinians .And then in every step I begin to think about the imaginary , in each step I wonder if this is freedom. Why are our steps countable, why are our steps limited?
Cannot observe the land of our grandparents.
“Saba turned to me and said: " I have always known it the Israeli plan is to confine all of us in reservation in preparation for our eventual expulsion .just as they did in 1948” Palestinian walks pg 147
Plants so many, green, yellow and red, so wonderful .I could see this beauty every day its really the best relief for one’s soul, It’s a therapy for one’s soul to purify all the thought’s. Surrounded by all this beauty and nature.
As I walk among the rocks, I want to see the largest stone over there, to I shout at the top of my voice and say this is our land we are here, and then I was crying at the same time the air cleared my tears from my eyes, and I imagined him telling me, do not cry, you have to be strong to return this land to its owners, and you see the trees tell me that we bear all the odds, because we know that one day all the suffering would end , and the sun shines again. After I wiped my tears and laugh, because I felt Bloml again, and continued my journey.
“the settlements which had been at the heart of our struggle against the occupation were all around us , Israel was continuing to expand them and establish new ones on our land .” Palestinian walks pg 102
Whenever I see flowers, trees, and stone, you see through them, the suffering of the Palestinian people, and history of the Palestinian people, and after I saw the signs were present on the e rocks and trees are everywhere, I wonder what this means for the signals, and then I decided to ask a teacher about it, I went and I asked him, and he replied that it’s marks left behind from Israeli settlers, I'm stunned ,because when Israeli came to Palestine we gave them shelter and food.
And then I went to walk alone, because I do not want anyone to distract my thoughts, especially because I was talking with stones and trees, because humiliated anyone saw me talking with trees, plants and stones, will think is that I am crazy, for I know inside that I I'm doing is not mad, because everything is in the land has a story and a past, and that is when I look at trees and rocks I'm trying to read and know the story and the Forestry ..
And then we stopped to eat, ate and continued the journey, and then transplanting have brought olive trees because we want to grow this transplanting in the ground, we are looking for a suitable place in the land for agriculture, and my friends and I found a suitable place for agriculture, so we started digging in the ground , and then put seedling in the pit, and we covered in the dust, and wrote our names on it, and then planted another tree and another, and so I felt that I worked for something fixed, and I was proud of it a lot.
And then we took a break for rest, because we were very tired, my friend and I sat on a rock, and we talked about the journey, which has affected us too, and Wish if we can live in this nature, like heaven.
Now it's time to go to home, but I felt so sad because I want to stay more than this here, I want to observe more , I want to walk more than this, Unfortunately I cant do all of this because I cant stay here alone….
By the way, we went to the bus station to take taxi to go home, we took taxi from battir to Bethlehem , And we decided to walk in the streets of Bethlehem, and then we went on the Church of the Resurrection (Knesset alqyameh), and then came the bus which will take us from Bethlehem to Ramallah ....
“as soon as we left the taxi that brought us down close to wide Qelt we found ourselves almost running over the hills ,which were like a brown tapestry . we felt euphoric. being stuck in Ramallah , surrounded as it was with checkpoints at every exit , the experience o open space, whit no walls , no barriers and a wide open sky , made us giddy with joy.” Palestinian walks pg 138
and on the road to Ramallah in the bus, I was thinking about everything that has happened in this trip, the trip was a perfect and beautiful trip I learned a lot from it.
In the moment of times i remembered my original town, I mean from where I am.
It’s a place called DEER TARIF, I don’t know this town after the sixty seven war we been extinguished for our land, our homeland.
I wish one day I could tell my kids, about the land my grandparent’s grew up in.
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