as soon as my friend feli and i work out the logistics, the plan is i'm meeting him in prague sometime this week...then i'm going to berlin....from there i'm flying to london, from london i'm flying to vienna. then i'm coming back here for a few days, then hopefully i'm off to pula, croatia to go "fishing" at my friend tomislav's house on the shore, and then it's back to the city.
didn't make it to gay pride parade today b/c i was too busy climbing all the hills on buda side...but from what i heard, it was nothing like the one in new york. meaning, some jerks threw eggs at those parading...and i don't mean just a few, i mean a lot. and there were a lot of police about apparently...not just for show, but really there for security reasons. come to think of it, there were quite a many police officers at the gay club we went to a few weeks ago. seems budapest has a far way to go in terms of accepting gay people and gay culture.
other than that, spent time this week doing research...walking around in the heat until i couldn't take it anymore...went to lake balaton for the day on thursday - two and a half hours away...got a lot of sun....met some dutch girls, went to dinner with them, and then rode the train back together. lake balaton is massive, and could easily be a weeklong trip - wine tastings and the like, but i didn't really want to stay....had to figure this trip stuff out, etc.
also, met up with a street artist earlier in the evening...we didn't talk long b/c he barely speaks english and i clearly don't speak hungarian - which is starting to wear on me!!!! no one understands me! this is insane. how does no one speak english here?! i mean, english isn't the enemy anymore?! the wall fell like 20 freakin' years ago!
but anyone, friedrich is on the national fencing team, and he is also a street artist - very talented, i think - and he makes clothing, etc. which sells very well in the shops around here.
finished the kertesz book, reading Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig - brilliant! It's wonderful having time to actually think again!
Well I'm off,
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send me suggestions of things to do in those cities!
Also, I got skype: my im name is: amie.sapan, easy enough, no?
beijoux,
amie
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i missed the pride parade in Rio too. from what i understand there were no eggs but lots of Fire Island circa 1975 acts on the beach. Sounds like you're having fun.
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i missed the pride parade in Rio too. from what i understand there were no eggs but lots of Fire Island circa 1975 acts on the beach. Sounds like you're having fun.
-a
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