Central Europe blog post

posted a few days ago on MySpace.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

It's my last full day in Central Europe and I'm finally posting something! It's been quite good, but too much has gone on, both in and around me, to sum up here. Just some snapshots:
- cute little Fiat's parked half on the road and half on the brick sidewalks.
- shy Slovak teenagers insisting that they can't speak any English, and then carrying on full, if broken, conversations
- Krakow's Ryneck Glowny ('nuf said. love that place.)
- a Slovak teen who says she wants to travel around the world, and my heart goes out to her: "Be careful," I say, and try to remind her that there are some who would take advantage of her deisre to work in another country.
- Roma villages and ghettos full of poverty and beautiful faces.
- "football" (aka soccer) with a team of American folks and Roma girls against a group of little Roma boys. they were losing pretty badly til and older guy (teenager?) joined us, helped them win by one and then proceeded to professes his love to me! :/
- internet cafes where I meet people from all over the world and see local kids playing computer games.
- Turkish coffee and peach tea at a little Roma church near Kosice, Slovakia

I must confess that at this point I still don't really want to go home. Sure, there's people I miss and I miss having access to a washing machine and a dryer and kitchen where I can cook my own meals and being able to read the signs and all my musical activities (like really practicing!). But I think I like it in this part of the world. I suppose I'll be back someday...