Numbers obviously can't begin to tell the story of my time here, but I had fun compiling this list:Hours on Trains, Planes, and Automobiles: over 100
Chocolate eaten: 1 lb American, 1/2 kg European (so far)
Beds slept in: 11 (so far)
Pulpits I've tried out: 13+ (Unitarian ones, that is)
Balazs scholars met with: 8 (I think)
Ministers met: approx 30
Women ministers met: 4
Students met: approx 100 (including middle school, high school, and seminary)
Americans met: 4 (2 Peace Corps, 2 Unitarians also visiting)
Out queers met: 0
Interviews given: 2
Hours spent washing clothes in the sink: 12+
Shots of palinka (home-made brandy): approx 25-30
Plastic water bottles used: more than I'd like (20?)
Contacts added to my Romanian cell phone: 16
Gods found: up to one
Viszontlatasra - Goodbye for now
I leave Transylvania tomorrow for
Taize, an ecumenical (inter-Christian)chanting, peace-promoting, youth-focused monastic community. Then I'll have a few days in Barcelona before I come home. I doubt that I'll be blogging, but check back and see!
I'll sign off with this song that I've come to like here (don't read into the title though). It's a poem by the famous Hungarian poet Jozsef Attila called
"Tudod, hogy nincs bocsánat, or "You say there's no forgiveness." Thanks to Gyero Attila, a student here, for sending me the link and to Nagy Endre (Balazs 08-09) for introducing me to the song.
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