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September 16, 2001
Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad
First, anyone who sees my folks or wants to talk to them, please wish them a Happy Anniversary. They have reached 33 years of successful marriage. Congratulations. Thank you for the the love and support you have given Joel and me.
Next, thank you to everyone who wrote or sent notes to me this week in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the US. Thank you for your concern and support.
We are all safe over here. I feel very disconnected from the "real" reaction to this whole mess. I don't know what my country is feeling, thinking, or doing. I know what the press says it's doing, but that's usually a far cry from reality. The Hungarian people are so used to being beat-up that they have very little reaction to this whole thing. They are very compassionate, but that's about it. So I really don't know how to feel. I want to grieve, to be angry, to help, to pray, to do many things, but there just aren't many people over here that can understand.
In the same way that in the US we can watch a war on another continent, say, "that's awful." and then forget about it in 5 minutes. I feel like that's going to happen here. While my country is going to be consumed in recovering from this blow, The country I'm currently living in is ready to move on. So those of us over here are being rushed through the experience and will soon move on and forget about it.
I don't know. I'm still trying to make sense of the whole thing.
OK, happy things happened this week too.
The biggest thing was that Paul and I got a flat. We finally have a place to live. This is a huge relief. We were going to be evicted from the other place on the 21st. Big thanks to Lavonne, Jared, Aniko, and Debbie for all their help with this. Wahoo! The place is great too. It's big - Kitchen, bathroom, dining room, living room and 2 bedrooms! It's closer to downtown Boody, but about the same distance from school. It's on the first floor (the first floor in Hungary is *actually* the second floor, they number 'em different over here) of a 3-4 story building on a nice, quiet street. I'll get some pictures of the place soon, so you can check it out too. One bummer is that we don't have a phone, and may not for a while. I'll keep you posted.
Posted by neal on September 16, 2001 07:01 AM