The disappearance of distance

I was just on a Skype video conference with my nieces. I live in Budapest, and they live in Puyallup, Washington. Tori read her award winning poem, Aimee showed my her new dolly, and I got to hear a live performance of a minuet by Bach...all over the Internet.

I wonder if I'm missing out on the true overseas experience, by having such easy access to my family via the internet. I really don't care. We now live in a connected world. I know missionaries from ages past didn't have Skype and Internet video technology, and I can't imagine how hard it was for them. I guess it could be one of those "if you don't know what you're missing" things. I just know that I love those little girls and hate to miss anything about their lives.

Some day, there will be technology that will allow my brother to be filming my nieces live in the theater and I can be watching via satellite, or cell, or whatever, sitting at my desk in my flat.

What a (connected) world we live in now.

Random Entry...with pictures :-)

We had an awesome sunset the other night. Of course most of it is because of air pollution, but I still think it's pretty.

Recently I was reading a Hungarian English text book. I was reading an article about contradictions in Hungarian culture. The one that I can remember the most is about the contradiction in food. It seems that there are countless fruit and vegetable stands and fresh food markets in Budapest. But when you go to a nice restaurant in Budapest you mostly see nothing but fatty fried food on the menu...and THAT'S "high society."
Below is one example...fried boar!

I Spy!

Remember that book when you were a kid. You had to find certain items in a picture of massive amounts of random items.

Well, this is a picture I took on my dest at work. It's something I look at every day, but thought I'd share it with you and see if you can find any of the following items:

Palm tree
Ruler
Kite
Hand lotion
Cassette tapes (2)
Bandana
Scotch tape
Kleenex
Vitamin C



Well, hope it was fun for you!

Erin