Turmus 'Ayya - ترمسعيا: ترمسعيا- اثار قديمة

Unbelievable!!! This is where I went to kindergarten/1st grade with my aunts who were in a higher grade and my million and one rowdy cousins. As a matter of fact, I remember it so well because my mom bought me the cutest pair of red leather shoes from Bata in Ramallah but because a lot of my cousins were jealous that they didn't have new shoes, they made fun of mine and I stopped wearing them altogether. I was very bashful and those cousins of mine were wicked, venomous and full of guile. I think Sitt Maryam wasn't a teacher just yet but the next year, all of us went to Elementary at Dar Fowzi or Abu Fowzi, Al-Marhoumah Rasmiyyah's parents' house whose father was a mason. Rasmiah married my mother's cousin Zuhdi. Sitt Maryam was our very strict teacher and became an icon of disciplinary education. She lived with the great dress-maker Rusaila at the time.
About the old school without a guardrail, everyone probably thought it was too dangerous for the little ones to climb all those stairs in the old setting next to Sitty Fakhriah's little house. Sitty was married to our first dentist( Ha, ha, ha) Haj Flaifel. God bless this great man's soul and also bless the souls of the older generation from whom Turmos Ayya inherited its expanse and beauty . If you go to Haj Flaifel's old house, you'll see a lonesome, little, gentle, big brown-eyed donkey feeding on hey or grains all by his lonesome self. Poor creature! The adorable and generous Haj Flaifel who took care of orphans wasn't there any more to take care of him and so roll the wheels of time.