As I am preparing for my upcoming journey I thought I would share this blog address with the students I had this past fall in my Holocaust/Human Rights class at Madison High School. Welcome to any of those students who are checking in to see/hear about my experiences.
Most were seniors so they have now graduated (Congratulations!!!!!!) but may still be interested in my trip. I hope you are all doing well.
The countdown to the trip is now 5 1/2 weeks, so I still have a while to wait. However, I fly off to Washington DC in 11 days for a week. Then after a whole 3 days at home My wife, my son Josh, and I will be flying off to Hong Kong to pick up our oldest son Jake from his LDS mission. We will spend two weeks touring Hong Kong and China. It will be amazing!!!! But, then after another 3 days at home I fly off to Washington DC again for orientation for this Holocaust Education Tour. Wow! What a great collection of experiences await me this summer. I can't wait to get started.
More to come later. . . . :)
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Getting Started
Hi all,
Late in 2010 I applied to travel with a group of teachers and learn more about the Holocaust and Holocaust Education. I was notified early this year that I was accepted! (Whoo Hooo!) :)
We will be spending just over 3 weeks going to Washington DC and learning at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Then we fly to Israel and travel to Jerusalem where we will study at Yad Vashem (the Israeli Holocaust Museum). I believe we will have some time to tour the city and I'm excited to see the religious sites as well. After Israel, we travel to Poland where we will visit the major Concentration Camps/Killing Centers. Then we go to Germany where we will visit more Camps and study in Berlin.
What an amazing opportunity! I can't wait to learn more, experience more, and develop better ways to teach my students how they can change the world by making a difference to just one other person.
Remember "The One."
Late in 2010 I applied to travel with a group of teachers and learn more about the Holocaust and Holocaust Education. I was notified early this year that I was accepted! (Whoo Hooo!) :)
We will be spending just over 3 weeks going to Washington DC and learning at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Then we fly to Israel and travel to Jerusalem where we will study at Yad Vashem (the Israeli Holocaust Museum). I believe we will have some time to tour the city and I'm excited to see the religious sites as well. After Israel, we travel to Poland where we will visit the major Concentration Camps/Killing Centers. Then we go to Germany where we will visit more Camps and study in Berlin.
What an amazing opportunity! I can't wait to learn more, experience more, and develop better ways to teach my students how they can change the world by making a difference to just one other person.
Remember "The One."
“History counts its skeletons in round numbers”
History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
an ABC never read,
air that laughs, cries, grows,
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody’s place in the line
From “Some Like Poetry”, by Wislawa Szymborska
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