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Intro to urban studies
Prof: Alessandro petti
Walking away
I used to listen to Craig David song walking away, thinking of this song the same as I would think about any other song, just lyrics with some music, but this time it was different.
The great thing about songs is that everyone can hear, feel and listen to it differently than the other depending on the situation he is in.
I'm walking away from the troubles in my life"I'm walking away oh to find a better dayI'm walking away from the troubles in my lifeI'm walking away oh to find a better dayI'm walking away"
These were part of my feeling while having a walk from, beit jala, to bateer.
At that point, this song meant to me a lot than just a song.
In this walk I had the chance to discover places I've never been to , see my country , my people through different eye that I had never seen them in .
Starting from beit jala, until the end of the trip simple things would pull my eye, and move my feeling very easily starting from road itself to the great nature you see there , baloot bottom , olive trees , even thought that I have seen these trees before , this time is the first I think of how many years these trees were planted , who I s the person who planted them , is he still alive , or not , and even if these question doesn't matter ,and that they will do me no good nor bad they would still cross my mind.
Starting of the valley until its end we could see the agricultural building , which Palestinian have build to help them while they plant in the summer , which they were only staying in for summer time .
This trip was in a very sunny hot day, which reminded me a lot of the Palestinian who had to leave their homes in 1948, expect that our journey, our walk was for the pleasure of walking itself, and their walk was a walk full of fear.
Continuing our trip from beit jala until we reach down the valley, we didn't stop rocks, trees, ups and downs, all the way long.
This valley is considered as one of the most important valleys in this area, not just in bateer, but in beit jala as well, because it connect both of these areas together, it contains one of the most important trees flowers and other plants in Palestine, and these are two of the most important reasons that makes this valley very special on this landscape.
We were told about a project that was going on in this valley as well in bateer, and other places, it was basically a year's survey on different towns about the cultural elements, also they are mapping the buildup areas and the streets as well the human activities on this landscape.
This project aim to help in the future of finding ways to develop this area, which will allow considering this place as one of the greatest places on this landscape.
Continuing our trip all the way up, our last station: bateer
A few people in Palestine have managed and succeeded in keeping their homes, lands, villages the way they were before 1948; bateer's people are one of those few.
And that was one of the most important reasons that gave them the respect all people on this land have for them, because they had and always will represent the true honor of Palestinians.
sometimes you feel there is no funthat's why you turn and runbut now I truly realize some people don't want to compromisewell I saw them with my own eyes spreading those liesand well I don't want to live a lie,
Feelings on how people in different places on this landscape have done to it , people who were not willing to compromise anything to save this land from being lost , exactly the opposite of people in bateer had done.
Even though that nothing separate bateer of "jelo settlement" but the railway train station which connects Jerusalem with Tal Aviv, people have not compromise but they had give their freedom as long nothing of their land would be lost .
A view of bateer and the railway train station .
Bateer is one of the great examples of a Palestinians village because it still can show the true Palestinians, starting from simple homes, until the simple things they used years and years before to build these homes, such as the thing we saw on our journey which was called " laton ", which was a building that people use to make the concert they used to build houses.
Even though it was ignored, but still seeing it would give us _ Palestinians _ the hope, that our land is not totally lost, and that there is good left in some people.
Intro to urban studies
Prof: Alessandro petti
Walking away
I used to listen to Craig David song walking away, thinking of this song the same as I would think about any other song, just lyrics with some music, but this time it was different.
The great thing about songs is that everyone can hear, feel and listen to it differently than the other depending on the situation he is in.
I'm walking away from the troubles in my life"I'm walking away oh to find a better dayI'm walking away from the troubles in my lifeI'm walking away oh to find a better dayI'm walking away"
These were part of my feeling while having a walk from, beit jala, to bateer.
At that point, this song meant to me a lot than just a song.
In this walk I had the chance to discover places I've never been to , see my country , my people through different eye that I had never seen them in .
Starting from beit jala, until the end of the trip simple things would pull my eye, and move my feeling very easily starting from road itself to the great nature you see there , baloot bottom , olive trees , even thought that I have seen these trees before , this time is the first I think of how many years these trees were planted , who I s the person who planted them , is he still alive , or not , and even if these question doesn't matter ,and that they will do me no good nor bad they would still cross my mind.
Starting of the valley until its end we could see the agricultural building , which Palestinian have build to help them while they plant in the summer , which they were only staying in for summer time .
This trip was in a very sunny hot day, which reminded me a lot of the Palestinian who had to leave their homes in 1948, expect that our journey, our walk was for the pleasure of walking itself, and their walk was a walk full of fear.
Continuing our trip from beit jala until we reach down the valley, we didn't stop rocks, trees, ups and downs, all the way long.
This valley is considered as one of the most important valleys in this area, not just in bateer, but in beit jala as well, because it connect both of these areas together, it contains one of the most important trees flowers and other plants in Palestine, and these are two of the most important reasons that makes this valley very special on this landscape.
We were told about a project that was going on in this valley as well in bateer, and other places, it was basically a year's survey on different towns about the cultural elements, also they are mapping the buildup areas and the streets as well the human activities on this landscape.
This project aim to help in the future of finding ways to develop this area, which will allow considering this place as one of the greatest places on this landscape.
Continuing our trip all the way up, our last station: bateer
A few people in Palestine have managed and succeeded in keeping their homes, lands, villages the way they were before 1948; bateer's people are one of those few.
And that was one of the most important reasons that gave them the respect all people on this land have for them, because they had and always will represent the true honor of Palestinians.
sometimes you feel there is no funthat's why you turn and runbut now I truly realize some people don't want to compromisewell I saw them with my own eyes spreading those liesand well I don't want to live a lie,
Feelings on how people in different places on this landscape have done to it , people who were not willing to compromise anything to save this land from being lost , exactly the opposite of people in bateer had done.
Even though that nothing separate bateer of "jelo settlement" but the railway train station which connects Jerusalem with Tal Aviv, people have not compromise but they had give their freedom as long nothing of their land would be lost .
A view of bateer and the railway train station .
Bateer is one of the great examples of a Palestinians village because it still can show the true Palestinians, starting from simple homes, until the simple things they used years and years before to build these homes, such as the thing we saw on our journey which was called " laton ", which was a building that people use to make the concert they used to build houses.
Even though it was ignored, but still seeing it would give us _ Palestinians _ the hope, that our land is not totally lost, and that there is good left in some people.
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