Back from the frosty East
Soooo, I've just returned from Debrecen a day ago. It was quite a ride.
I left on Monday afternoon, after half a day in my office. I had to make sure things would go well while I'm away for the rest of the week. I caught the 4pm train from Eastern Railway Station and was off to Deberecen.
All along the nearly 3 hours long trip I saw huge inland inundation everywhere - we had too much snow this winter so probably we must prepare for huge floods, and they also warned for that in the news. And it will cause a failure of crop too, which won't do any good to the Hungarian agriculture sector this year. They said this spring we can expect the biggest flood in a long time. Cool.
Anyway, arrived to my grandparents in the evening, they were quite happy to see me. We had dinner, talked a bit and then I'd hit the bed quite early as I was almost dead from tiredness.
Next day bro came with his wife and drove us to a neighbour town to the hospital where my sister was with her newborn baby. Both she and the baby was okay. The nurses allowed us to see the baby only from behind a glass wall - noone was allowed to enter that part of the maternity ward. Well, knowing that, I tried to find out "where that thick cigarette smoke came from?!" Yes, from inside. The nurses at the new-born ward were smoking like a chimney. I left before saying something really rude...
As I was well-prepared and had my training gear in my backsack, I went to training after we returned to Debrecen. The guys did not know that I was coming -except for the instructor- so it was a real surprise for them. The instructor (same guy I was training with during the SFR seminar this January) was very nice, introduced me to those who did not know me yet and the training started up. He used me to demonstrate more ass-kicking techniques which required good ukemi and adaptation skilss from the uke, so I felt really honoured to be chosen. He even asked me to show some things to the guys at the end of the training. I was a bit reluctant, I rather wanted to remain the "gray mouse" but he said some of the guys were whinning too much about not being able to do this or that, and said that I could be a good example for that effectiveness does not depend on the size or strength (in BBT at least :-D ). So I showed them a gaeshi for Nichi Gekki and some escapes from grabs. We were all green and blue by the end of the training but the guys were very enthusiastic. It's always like that when I visit them - I love training with these guys :-). Old times rock :-) Bro came again to pick me up at the end of the training and we drove home.
The rest of my stay in Debrecen went by with visiting dad in a nearby village, and also giving a hand to grandma in the kitchen and helping grandpa fixing the roof and also installing a new parabola antenna.
I returned to Budapest on Thursday, and just after my train drew into Eastern Railway Station, I went to mom to collect my weapons and I was off for training.
Training that evening went more or less well, considering how dead-tired I was, but I definitely had to put myself together by the end of the training to not collapse from tiredness. The thought of skipping the second part of the training tempted me, but my curiosity was stronger. I wanted to see how I do on the tatami when I am completely exhausted. Well, it was not that bad, but it was definitely far from what I would call a "good job".
The end of the training hit me with an unexpected but actually very nice surprise - I got a flower and some bonbons from the guys on the occassion of International Women's Day. I never thought they would remember that. The fact that I can be taken off my feet with a flower and that I did not get one from anybody else did its job. I was really touched. So the torturous training had a good ending on Thursday.
Returning home I gladly noticed that the books I ordered from one of the publisher companies arrived meanwhile, so now I can at least get some insight into some interesting mysticism-related stuff. It's been quite hard to find some reliable source of information in Hungarian, so I hope to get some idea about these things now.
I think I'll also try to kind of recharge myself for next week's hassle. Back to coding again. Oh, noooo!
I left on Monday afternoon, after half a day in my office. I had to make sure things would go well while I'm away for the rest of the week. I caught the 4pm train from Eastern Railway Station and was off to Deberecen.
All along the nearly 3 hours long trip I saw huge inland inundation everywhere - we had too much snow this winter so probably we must prepare for huge floods, and they also warned for that in the news. And it will cause a failure of crop too, which won't do any good to the Hungarian agriculture sector this year. They said this spring we can expect the biggest flood in a long time. Cool.
Anyway, arrived to my grandparents in the evening, they were quite happy to see me. We had dinner, talked a bit and then I'd hit the bed quite early as I was almost dead from tiredness.
Next day bro came with his wife and drove us to a neighbour town to the hospital where my sister was with her newborn baby. Both she and the baby was okay. The nurses allowed us to see the baby only from behind a glass wall - noone was allowed to enter that part of the maternity ward. Well, knowing that, I tried to find out "where that thick cigarette smoke came from?!" Yes, from inside. The nurses at the new-born ward were smoking like a chimney. I left before saying something really rude...
As I was well-prepared and had my training gear in my backsack, I went to training after we returned to Debrecen. The guys did not know that I was coming -except for the instructor- so it was a real surprise for them. The instructor (same guy I was training with during the SFR seminar this January) was very nice, introduced me to those who did not know me yet and the training started up. He used me to demonstrate more ass-kicking techniques which required good ukemi and adaptation skilss from the uke, so I felt really honoured to be chosen. He even asked me to show some things to the guys at the end of the training. I was a bit reluctant, I rather wanted to remain the "gray mouse" but he said some of the guys were whinning too much about not being able to do this or that, and said that I could be a good example for that effectiveness does not depend on the size or strength (in BBT at least :-D ). So I showed them a gaeshi for Nichi Gekki and some escapes from grabs. We were all green and blue by the end of the training but the guys were very enthusiastic. It's always like that when I visit them - I love training with these guys :-). Old times rock :-) Bro came again to pick me up at the end of the training and we drove home.
The rest of my stay in Debrecen went by with visiting dad in a nearby village, and also giving a hand to grandma in the kitchen and helping grandpa fixing the roof and also installing a new parabola antenna.
I returned to Budapest on Thursday, and just after my train drew into Eastern Railway Station, I went to mom to collect my weapons and I was off for training.
Training that evening went more or less well, considering how dead-tired I was, but I definitely had to put myself together by the end of the training to not collapse from tiredness. The thought of skipping the second part of the training tempted me, but my curiosity was stronger. I wanted to see how I do on the tatami when I am completely exhausted. Well, it was not that bad, but it was definitely far from what I would call a "good job".
The end of the training hit me with an unexpected but actually very nice surprise - I got a flower and some bonbons from the guys on the occassion of International Women's Day. I never thought they would remember that. The fact that I can be taken off my feet with a flower and that I did not get one from anybody else did its job. I was really touched. So the torturous training had a good ending on Thursday.
Returning home I gladly noticed that the books I ordered from one of the publisher companies arrived meanwhile, so now I can at least get some insight into some interesting mysticism-related stuff. It's been quite hard to find some reliable source of information in Hungarian, so I hope to get some idea about these things now.
I think I'll also try to kind of recharge myself for next week's hassle. Back to coding again. Oh, noooo!
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