Three students live in this area and are scheduled for a class trip. Their entire grade will go to a few New York City sacred houses today. Yentil is a young jewish girl. Zeke And Saaid are two boys living in the same neighborhood.
Yentl has to travel by crosstown bus and help in the pantry before school twice a week. Today was her second day for the week and it seemed routine now. She makes snacks for the community in need before 7am.
Zeke too was up at 5:30am. He just sat up in bed and quickly hit the snooze feature on his electronic alarm clock. He liked to always be ready by 6:30am when Saaid arrived in the lobby of his building. He thought about fixing breakfast before brushing his teeth but remembered he had to pack a lunch for the field trip today. Zeke chose to put on his clothes first and grab an apple and juice with a cold cut sandwich.
Saaid liked Zeke's building because it had a nautilus gym in it and treadmills that inclined. They could work out most school days and most importantly before the soccer season finished. Saaid's building was only three floors from street level and without an elevator. He lived about four city blocks from his school friend Zeke.
Yentil made her way down the street from the synagogue’s delivery way door and headed straight way to her high school. She sometimes went in early and sat for tutoring in at least one subject. However today she’d be a half an hour early and wait patiently for her class trip with a few classmates.
After the two friends had a short yet relaxing morning workout, they grabbed their totes and headed to the elevator. They weren’t aware that outside the building the streets lingered with a putrid odor. It enveloped the neighborhood this morning. There was no Wednesday morning pick up of the debris left by the buildings on the southbound side of the streets. The cars weren’t allowed to park on their side either because of a permit that posted parking restrictions this morning. It would be like this until planning crews could get certain accessories set up for the upcoming Columbus Day Parade. This caused much of the trash to flow into the curbside and onto portions of the street.
Saaid and Zeke were exiting the building and both looked at each other as if to say, ‘Is that you with the body odor?' After a chuckle they quickly made their way to the train and eventually the high school. Their friendship was building each day and today’s commute would probably be an amusing memory by the time they finish high school.
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