in 2003 i came to hungary and taught english in a refugee camp. the program who sent me is still sending people to do the same thing. last week i had the chance to take this year's team to the camp and help get them acclimated to hungary and living in a refugee camp. it was surreal to be back at the place and i'm glad i could see it agian.
some guy drove us there (about 3 hours from budapest) who didn't speak any english, so i was seriously using my hungarian. he was a nice guy, jozsef. he decided to pass some car on a two lane road and the team and i were ok with that. then he decided to pass the car in front of that... but there was a semi coming on the other side. we were getting nervous and then scared and then terrified! i'm not exaggerating when i say we missed the semi - who didn't slow down at all either!- by about 10 feet. 10 FEET!!! none of us could breathe or think of anything else after that brush with death for about half an hour. i told him we were all scared and he assured me that he's a professional driver and everything was under control. o.m.g.
from what joe and kathy (the organizers of the refugee camp english teacher relationship) told me, i understood that he was going to take me and the team to the refugee camp, then drive me back to budapest. well, he had other plans (unbeknownst to me!). he was going to some other city to leave the van there and pick up his own car which he would then drive to budapest. he didn't tell me that until we were at the refugee camp! so we drove to the camp in southern hungary, then to the city where his car was in northeast hungary, then back to budapest in central hungary. it was about 5 hours! obviously we were best friends by the end.
somewhere in the country we saw this...
some guy drove us there (about 3 hours from budapest) who didn't speak any english, so i was seriously using my hungarian. he was a nice guy, jozsef. he decided to pass some car on a two lane road and the team and i were ok with that. then he decided to pass the car in front of that... but there was a semi coming on the other side. we were getting nervous and then scared and then terrified! i'm not exaggerating when i say we missed the semi - who didn't slow down at all either!- by about 10 feet. 10 FEET!!! none of us could breathe or think of anything else after that brush with death for about half an hour. i told him we were all scared and he assured me that he's a professional driver and everything was under control. o.m.g.
from what joe and kathy (the organizers of the refugee camp english teacher relationship) told me, i understood that he was going to take me and the team to the refugee camp, then drive me back to budapest. well, he had other plans (unbeknownst to me!). he was going to some other city to leave the van there and pick up his own car which he would then drive to budapest. he didn't tell me that until we were at the refugee camp! so we drove to the camp in southern hungary, then to the city where his car was in northeast hungary, then back to budapest in central hungary. it was about 5 hours! obviously we were best friends by the end.
somewhere in the country we saw this...
3 comments:
i'm glad he didn't hijack you for good! and those people with the umbrellas are weird. i didn't have my sound on, so maybe you explained it verbally. and maybe he shouldn't be a professional driver anymore if he is playing chicken with semis. not cool, jo.
Glad the prostitutes had umbrellas to protect their classy bathing suits!
crumb thats 2 funny, hookers have to protect their hair u no.
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