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We found out the total books we handed out was 11,000!!! Awesome whatA few people can do when God is with them and the vision is before them!DAY 9 NOV 10TH, 2001Well, 3:30am came early today, but we were ready to go, even before thebus driver was ready! We got to the “new” airport in Poznan. It openedup the week we flew in, but our last flight was into the old section. Sotoday we got to fly out of the new airport. It was very pretty, however,we were there before they even opened their stations and right off thebat they were 2 seats short. Our group of 22 quickly became two groupsof 20 and 2 that were flown out on a later flight. The funny thing aboutit was that the flight that Sharon and Ladell were on got to Budapestbefore us because they didn’t have to change planes in Munich. Oh, well,it’s just the way we like it. That’s one of the sayings that we havealong with the word “FLEXABLE” and GMT (good missionary training).I got to sit with Gayleen on this flight and got to ask her a lot ofquestions about MS. I was glad to get to find out more about her. It’shard for me to think of her as a Grandma!!!We had sandwiches galore today! They sent us with a meal from the hotelof yogurt, an apple and two sandwiches which consisted of pickles,mustard and cheese on a hard roll. I ate everything except thesandwiches, couldn’t quite get into that combination. Our first flighthad a sandwich with cheese and butter and lettuce on an oblong roll.(I ate that one).The next flight we took had another sandwich that consisted of roll,cheese, lettuce and tomato (I ate that one too) with a piece of chocolateand orange juice. Then on the last plane we took from Munich to Budapestwe got yet another sandwich!!! This one consisted of Bologna and creamcheese. (I skipped that one!) That’s just too many sandwiches in one day!We got to our hotel just after 2pm. Dropped off our luggage and jumped on the busfor a ride to our dinner. We had chimichangas at a Mexican restaurant called the"Iguana”. It was good and I ate it all! We had flan for dessert, but I wasn’timpressed by it.By the time we got back to the hotel it was 4:30pm, almost dark. I went upstairsto change into a t-shirt and ran down-stairs to see if anyone wanted to go for awalk, but I didn’t find anyone. We can only go out in groups of three or more here,and we are not allowed out after dark.I noticed the traffic here is very congested. Nothing like in Poland! It takes usa while to get places because of the traffic. Since I couldn’t find anyone to walkwith and the gym was closed. I climbed the staircases at either end of the hallways.Did about 30 minutes of that and I felt better.My left leg and hip was bothering from all the sitting and being in confined spaces,so it was good to stretch out. I also met Tommy and Gayleen along the way and theyended up working out like I did.
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The money here is a lot different here than in Polandl. Polish money wasalong the ratio of 4 of their “zlotzy” to one of our dollars. Here inHungary the ratio is 279 of theirs to 1 of our dollars. A little harderto figure out in your head.Well, we have another meal, dinner is at 7:30pm (I’m not hungry, so I hopeit isn’t much) I’ve eaten enough today to last me for a week! Okay, we hadcrepes filled with chicken and stuffing with a sauce made with paprika ontop. It was pretty good! The desert was a Jello custard and though it wasnot too sweet, it was wonderful.DAY 10 NOV 11TH,2001Got up at 7:30am today, had a breakfast buffet and then a church serviceat 9am. Greg did the preaching. Fred was all set to lead worship with hissteel Guitar, but when he plugged in his amp w/o a converter it blew thefuse. Priscilla ended up leading worship acappella.then went to bed.DAY 11 NOV 12TH, 2001Slept in today till almost 8am. Then had breakfast and boarded the bus forthe bible college. That was one of the Women’s Ministries annual projectdone in 1992. They gave about 60,000 dollars towards it. Also the governmentof Hungary gave about 125,000 to it too. Hungary is unique in that it’sgovernment helps subsidize all colleges whether private or public!Also, it is against the law in Hungary to charge tuition for students. Infact it’s similar to Poland. They will have whole lot more educated peoplefor higher learning than the USA will ever have. The difference is thatthey have to pass a series of tests in order to be accepted to theUniversity. If they fail, they can try for the technical school. I’m notsure if they have to pass a test for that or if they get it by default.It’s quite different than the way the USA works.The Pentecostal Theological Bible School is run by Paul and Jolene Gazza.They are the only English staff! They teach in Hungarian and most of thestudents range in age to the early 20’s, although we did meet one studentwho was 36, that is not the norm. The country pays for their 1st degree,but if they want a second major they have to pay for that themselves.There was a German student and two Transylvanian students. They also hadHungarian as their mother tongue.10:30pm cause I had to pack.DAY 12 NOV 13TH,2001Okay, it was certainly early this morning! Carol got up at 3am then wentback to bed, but I never went back to sleep after that! Finally,I got upabout 4am, got ready and went down to the lobby at 4:50am. Wrote in myjournal for all of yesterday. We got to the airport early and so they putus on an earlier flight, which was great except it meant that I didn’t getcoffee for another 2 hours. The flight from Budapest to Munich was thebumpiest with the most turbulence out of any flight! Last night we heardabout the plane crash in New York and they weren’t sure if it was anaccident or terrorists! The security in Munich was amazing! Everyone waspatted down, carry-ons were gone thru and x-rayed and if you had a camerawith you they made you take a picture so that they knew for sure it was acamera and not a weapon!flight.at 3am. [End]
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Notes on trip to Poland, Nov. 2001
Day 1 Nov 2nd 2001The day started at 3:40am at the Microtel Inn. The alarm went off and the journey began.Reid and I drove down to Sacramento on Nov 1st so I would be able to get some sleep beforehitting the airport. We got to the Sacramento International airport at 4:15am!
Found my group right off and we commenced to wait in line for 45 minutes then we got to thegate and waited to board. I had a seat next to my room-mate Carol Boch. It was her first planeride ever. It was pretty crowded and warm, of course I had worn a sweater which made it worse.The movie was Americas Sweethearts with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Julia Roberts. Got toChicago 10:30 am our time which was 12:30 their time. Then our next flight was delayed 1 hourso I wrote a couple of postcards and mailed them. I hung out with Ladel, Gayleen and Carol B.for lunch. I broke down and bought a Chicago T shirt so I could get out of my hot sweater for thenext leg of the trip.I am sitting in the plane waiting for all to board so we can get to Frankfurt Germany. The Germanshave got me surrounded, so there’s not a whole lot of English going on. I guess I’ll have plenty ofsleep time. The first 3½ hours went by uneventful. There were four different movies and I couldn’tget into any of them. Felt quite lonely for a time and I had to ask myself, “what in the world am Idoing here?” I don’t know ANYONE and talking to others is NOT my forte! Well, I made a run to thebathroom and stood for a while in the corridor. I ended up talking to Fred’s wife (can’t seem toremember her name). Anyhow, I don’t feel so lonely anymore.DAY 2 Nov 3rd, 2001Got to Frankfurt, then we hopped a plane to Warsaw. Sat at that airport for four hours. So, I got morepost cards, wrote on them and mailed them. These people don’t take American money so we had toget it exchanged. I found a couple of neat gifts.Got on a prop job airplane, it was an experience! None of our carry-ons were carry-on size for thisairplane so we had to check them through to Poznan. A most interesting thing that I noticed was thatthey even had real knives along with the rest of the silverware, unlike in the U.S. where they put plasticknives along with the spoons and forks made of metal. That flight was 1 ½ hours long. I slept throughmost of it. Then we arrived in Poznan. We had to get our luggage and load it on the bus for the fortyminute bus ride to Gniezno, (I slept through half of it). Wish I could have slept longer on thetranscontinental flight!Got to Gniezno at 4:30 pm their time. We got our rooms and I promptly took a shower and then we haddinner at 6pm. By 7:30pm I was in bed and slept for almost 12 hours! Finally SLEEP! YEAH!! The bedsare very cute! About the size of a long skinny table and only a foot off the ground. Two small chairs lowto the ground were also in the room. I thought I was sleeping in one of the seven dwarves bed, ha ha!
