{"id":10387,"date":"2014-09-05T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endo-ryokyu.com\/past_blog\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2014-09-05T22:33:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T13:33:11","slug":"what-schedule-was-waiting-for-me-after-i-pass-through-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endo-ryokyu.com\/past_blog\/?p=10387","title":{"rendered":"What schedule was waiting for me after I pass through immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

(1)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

I couldn\u2019t believe it, but I got in. After I passed through the immigration gate it felt as if I was in a day dream.<\/p>\r\n

But what has happened to the missing Oliver? I called him on my mobile. Oh, I can get him now . \u201cwow!\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cOliver where are you!?\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIn Tel Aviv already \u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u201cUn-believable!\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u201cPlease wait and I will pick you up with Elan. I am at Elan\u2019s home and can be at the airport in about 30 mins.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\"Got<\/p>\r\n

(Got into the Country).<\/p>\r\n

We made it! We met each other with a big smile.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\"We<\/p>\r\n

\"While<\/p>\r\n

(While waiting for the bus starting , we ate the breakfast which Oliver had bought. Oliver always prepares well.)<\/p>\r\n

I realized that both Oliver and I are great optimists, always crazy and keen with our dream. (This could be the character of a Tao Sangha member ). Any way… We just \u00a0want to keep \u00a0meeting with people, \u00a0anyone who truly wishes \u00a0for peace in the Middle East including wishing that all \u00a0human beings \u00a0to be free . We simply believed that if we talk to people to people sincerely then the Caravan Project will be \u00a0realized . Oliver and I, never doubt \u00a0this. So, anywhere with anyone who has this \u00a0kind of wish in this direction, we were dying \u00a0to make contact with.<\/p>\r\n

(2)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Well, I have a great \u00a0friend called Alan in Australia, who started his own business from a garage sale and now has many branches overseas. (He is an amazingly generous man) Whenever I tell him that I am going to do something he always says that my optimism is just amazing. I didn\u2019t know why he says that???? But \u00a0by realizing how \u00a0optimistic we are about \u00a0the caravan project … just simply believing that \u00a0sincere effort \u00a0can make this happen, \u00a0now I understand what Alan means. But I must say to \u00a0Alan \u201cHey Alan, what else can I do?\u201d<\/p>\r\n

(3)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

A Japanese activist woman, Ms Mieko, who is living in Jurusalem \u00a0is going to co-ordinate the schedule today for us , which is:<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Visiting a refugee camp in Eastern Jerusalem. Now it is Ramadan but if possible we want to give volunteer Tao Shiatsu. We are checking out and preparing for Tao Shiatsu members to do during the Caravan Project \u00a0next year.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    *Ramadan is a custom of Islam. Even though there is really hot sunshine, for one month from sunrise to sunset people fast, not eating anything. They do this to experience and understand poverty.<\/p>\r\n

    2. Meeting \u00a0an activist who is elementary \u00a0school teacher \u00a0who is asking me to do Ki workshop for the children. I \u00a0was really wishing to connect \u00a0with people who are working in the education field because I wanted to \u00a0put pictures from \u00a0the children with their \u00a0dream for the future \u00a0Earth on the Caravan\u2019s web site . \u00a0I also heard that some \u00a0schools in Israel, have \u201cGO workshops \u201d (Japanese traditional strategy game), so I have a dream of a Chari-TX convention together \u00a0with Israeli and Palestinian elementary schools, playing together.<\/p>\r\n

    3. Join the demonstration to protect \u00a0the rights of Palestinians and to free Palestine. Both Palestinian and Israeli activists coming together in a place called Sheikh Jarrah where many Palestinian houses have been demolished \u00a0or people have been evicted from their homes where they had lived for forty years. I did volunteer shiatsu to the family who were evicted and sleeping in the streat with Lawrence the last time that I was here. http:\/\/endo-ryokyu.com\/past_blog\/?p=428<\/a><\/p>\r\n

    We were willing to meet Israeli activist \u00a0for the human rights \u00a0on this \u00a0demonstration to talk with them about next year\u2019s Caravan project if they would be interested to coorporate with us.<\/p>\r\n

    By the way, every Friday in a famous village called Billin on the West Bank, a non violent demonstration takes place with the whole village . Many international and Israeli activists go there too. The film \u201c5 Broken Cameras\u201d, which was nominated for an Oscar, describes this village in a documentary. I have some connection with a photographer and leader in the villedge \u00a0so in the beginning I was going to visit Billin and \u00a0join the demonstration \u00a0but Mieko already had her plan to take us to Shakujara \u00a0demonstration and we had no choice. \u00a0But the Shakujara demonstration has opened a door for us for the Caravan project.<\/p>\r\n

    \"He<\/p>\r\n

    (Photo taken by Haytham in Billin. He always takes great \u00a0photographs)<\/p>\r\n

    (4)<\/b><\/p>\r\n

    Because I was delayed by one day, I have to go to Jerusalem directly from the Airport. The Japanese activist woman \u00a0Mieko has told me many times that I have to be at the Damascus gate of Jerusalem no later than 12: o\u2019clock because there is a lot to do. We have to hurry and with a lot of effort we can make it. I \u00a0was wondering \u00a0if we can make it?? \u00a0\u00a0Can we?<\/p>\r\n

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