Tripping


 Yesterday was a road trip day!

As I told you earlier, we were planning to do a trip with Ola – Sári’s mentor – Sári is my girlfriend in case you didn’t know.

We met Ola at 10am, hopped in the car and headed East, close to the border. Yes, we were headed to the Belarus border. I’m really curious about what’s going on there, I mean we see the news every day, and we have a rough idea, but you can almost never tell the truth based on reporters.  As much as I wanted to see personally what was going on there, I didn’t want to disturb the police unnecessarily by going there. Instead, we went to check out a pretty cool river, called river Bug! This river has beautiful bends, amazing huge banks on both sides- oh boy I wish it was summer! From there, we were headed to a place called Treblinka. Does that name ring a bell? Well, when Ola told us about that place, she said there’s a museum we could check out, we were like okay, that sounds interesting, sure let’s do it! At that time the name did not ring any bell to me. When we got to the place and started walking, I felt something that I cannot describe. It was 6°C, same as next to the river, but it felt much colder. Then we got to the first sign. Welcome to Treblinka ExterminationCamp. Wow. We were walking around the memorial of the thousands of people who died there. That was the time I realized I must’ve heard this name before. Treblinka. As it turned out it was the 2nd biggest extermination camp in the world – that we know of. 800,000 Jews and Romani people were brutally murdered there. Although the place had been destroyed, when the Russians were approaching, it still had that terrible vibe. If you ever come to Poland, you should check one of these camps out- and remember, it was made possible by a “promising” ideology that was believed not only by hopeless, but also by sick people. Its’ point was something that many people cheered, and thought would work and would be awesome, so they pushed it on other people – To be completely honest, I kinda feel the same when people from the liberal party are talking to me – and by talking, I mean pushing their opinion about accepting anyone and anything except me for thinking differently… do you feel me? There is another similar issue in the past that worries me. Hitler used propaganda to reach more people, and I feel like Facebook and Instagram are doing the same by only showing us the (political) content that we agree with, making us believe that everyone thinks the same way. Basically, we live in an opinion bubble. The way I see it, everything has its own place, liberalism, nationalism, socialism all of them have good and bad sides. – For each and every individual, it is absolutely necessary to be familiar with the bad sides as well, and to do not fall for one ideology. …okay I think we went too deep in this topic, this is not a political blog, sorry, I just wanted to tell you about my feelings.

Yeah, so after this very interesting experience, we drove to Ola’s parents’ place and had an amazing lunch/dinner I can’t really decide which is the more appropriate name. Anyways we had an amazing meal and had the opportunity to meet her mom. Unfortunately, we don’t speak Polish, she doesn’t talk Hungarian, so we didn’t have the chance to bound. However, we also met one of Ola’s brothers, who does speak English! He works in the trucking industry, an industry I’m really curious about, so it was great to talk with him! If only I knew we were going to meet, I could have prepared my questions to him… I have millions of questions connected to trucking, I might change my career from teaching to trucking in the near future – sorry mom and Sári trucking is just much better and a lot more interesting than dealing with kids.

I’m truly grateful to Ola for inviting us to meet her amazing family, and everything they did for us!
– And yet again it is proven Polish people are extremely nice and hospital –

That’s it for today, I hope I didn’t get too deep into politics and erm… see you tomorrow?
Take care,

Almos

Oh, and the pictures:

The memorial...
Janusz Korczak a true legend! A Polish man who created a foster home for Jewish children and refused to abandon those children even when they were transported from the ghetto to Treblinka. Read more about him here.

The pit where they made innocent prisoners work 10-12 hours shifts…


Location: 07-319 Treblinka, Poland

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