Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Christmas in Budapest
The year has almost come to a close, and my Christmas is Budapest was a successful one. Christmas morning I went to the home of my Canadian friend and supervisor at the ERRC. With her boyfriend and another Canadian friend, the four of us had a nice Canadian Christmas brunch. Later that day I went […]
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Riding the Rails
Its 4:41pm, but its pitch black outside my window. No electric light where I am. The long rolling fields of Slovakia are outside. I am writing this on the train returning me to Budapest. There 6 of us in this room of the carriage, a grandmother, mother and daughter, and another mother and daughter. Once […]
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Taking the road less traveled
When I was very young, in one of my families earliest homes, there was a photograph that always facinated me and yet scared me at the same time. It was of a street sign, at the end of a road, at night, with a field behind it. The street sign was yellow with arrows pointing […]
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Utopian Career Chooser 1.0
In Grade 11 I was forced to take part in a “Career Preparation Program”. It was a feeble attempt at assisting the young students of my High School in choosing a profession so that they could begin to form their academic foundation in post-secondary school for the career of their choice. The biggest reason this […]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Photo Album upgrade
The Photo Album has been upgraded to directly connect with the photos I have been putting on Facebook. So their are now more pictures on my photo album, and it will be continually updated as I upload pictures. The link to the photo album is on the right in the “pages” box or you can […]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Romanian immigrant hysteria in Italy
Italian political leaders are not generally held in high esteem outside (or indeed inside) their home country. Their handling of the country’s first big race-relations crisis has shown why. Among the adjectives that spring to mind are opportunistic, histrionic, irresponsible and, perhaps at best, insensitive.
The trouble began on October 30th, when Giovanna Reggiani, a 47-year-old […]
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Defining Roma
Wikipedia defines Roma as “among the best known ethnic groups that appear in literature and folklore, and are often referred to as Gypsies, [both terms] that are sometimes considered pejorative”. This systemic disproval of an ethnic group is based on decades of stigmas, stereotypes, and misinformation.
The Princeton Dictionary defines Roma as “a member of […]
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Observations
- You have to ask for each grocery bag you want, pay for the bags (10 Forints - about 50 cents Can/each), and then bag the groceries yourself, a couple times I’ve forgotten to ask for the bags, and ended having to stuff everything in my pockets!
I’ve been told the grocery bag fee is an […]
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