Hertzler Outpost » Hungary http://hertzlers.com Jerry and Cathy Hertzler blog from Orlando, Florida with Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ). Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:21:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another Freezing Christmas Market http://hertzlers.com/2007/12/01/another-freezing-christmas-market/ http://hertzlers.com/2007/12/01/another-freezing-christmas-market/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:22:32 +0000 Jerry http://hertzlers.com/2007/12/01/another-freezing-christmas-market/ On The Way to the Christmas Market in Budapest

On The Way to the Christmas Market
in Budapest

It was relatively warm (40 F) at the Budapest Christmas Market today, but it was still freezing. I don’t know how that works.

Mostly all the same stuff is there from the last time we were here. Food-wise that meant a turkey shishkabob for lunch followed by kürtöskalács and coffee at the Gerbeaud to warm up after shopping.

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Giving The Presentation Today

If I was in control of life’s situations, I would have given my presentation two years ago to the audience who heard it today. Our campus ministry directors from Eastern Europe meet regularly, but it wasn’t until this year’s meeting that I was able to get on their agenda. God’s timing I suppose.

It is great to be back in Budapest for the second time in two months, and better still to be here with Cathy. Like me on my first trip back two months ago, Cathy feels totally comfortable and at home here. After dinner at the Adler tonight we had to catch ourselves and remember that we can no longer simply walk home!

And I did enjoy ‘the Jerry’ dessert tonight, having been offered it by that name by my friend, Tomas, the waiter. It was as good as ever, too.

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Keleti Train Station in Budapest

After my stop in Budapest in October I discovered an opportunity to further the EveryStudent.com agenda in Eastern Europe by going to the conference where all our national campus directors meet to discuss strategy. This will be an opportunity to explain to them again how students search for spiritual truth on the Internet and how we need to have a presence on the Internet in the local languages that students use to search.

This trip Cathy gets to go, too! Frequent flyer miles from my two Asian trips earlier in the year put us in range for an international ticket. She is very excited and can’t wait to see our friends there again. We hope to get to the Christmas market and freeze our toes off again like we did every December when we lived there. And eat at the Adler. And ride public transportation again. And take a look at our old home again.

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Tom and Jerry in Budapest

On Saturday, of my weekend in Budapest, I just wanted to take public transportation downtown and enjoy the view again. Tom and I had a good time, and the weather was perfect. I wish I could do this every weekend.

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Hertzlers, Rodds, Parkers, Burroughs

Jack and Diane Parker are in town, so we got them up to the house along with two other couples who moved from Budapest to Orlando this summer. There is a unique experience we all share, living in Budapest, which makes our friendship in this context extra meaningful. Only this group would appreciate one of our prized possessions from Budapest; a menu from the Adler. We’re all making adjustments to our new lives, and it was good to dump those things out around friends who were in the same process. We miss Budapest, but it’s nice to have some of Budapest here with us, too.

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The animal is a ferret.

With that mystery solved, we can now resume packing. It’s 11:30 pm – eight and a half hours until the movers arrive. Lots to do still.

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Today, though, his sympathetic father took a step down the road of sinister behavior. I recorded video of his Hungarian dance performance. He trusts me enough to know that I probably won’t post this video here, but his friends weren’t so sure. When one of his friends saw me filming, a look of horror shot across his face.

“Please tell me you will delete that video, Mr. Hertzler!”

“Hertzlers.com,” was my only reply.

This sent him over the edge. He almost tackled me to get the camera.

While I don’t plan to show you this video, I do plan to hold it over Andrew’s head as a threat whenever it serves my ends. Let the blackmail begin!

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Cherry Picking

Cherry pie is not far behind!

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A call to the city administration (made by a helpful friend) revealed that I should actually have parked all four wheels on the street, not just two. Of course, the only way a foreigner like me would know this would be if I had either recognized a sign marking the area or maybe if I had acquired a Hungarian driver’s license and studied all the parking rules in the process. Having not done this, I suppose the last laugh was on me after all.

Valerie once got a ticket for parking all four wheels on the sidewalk in a two-wheels-only-on-the-sidewalk area, and plenty of others we know have parked all four wheels on the street and received tickets. Furthermore, all the other cars around me were parked identically to mine. This is simply an unsolved mystery for me, a departing gesture of affection from Budapest.

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The Cherries Are Ripe!

Mmmm. The cherries are good this year, indeed. Can’t wait to get some more.

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