TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

12:29 PM
Posted by jodi rose

The town is changing before my eyes. Old egg shop on the corner of the pesia zona closed down - the lease had ended, and apparently there is not so much call for selling eggs in the high street anymore. The people who own the rest of the building can sell or rent it for more now, also the print/copy shop further down is emtpy now.

A friend translated one of the articles in the local newspaper, which is about 3 men burgling the butchers at 2.30 Monday morning. They stole ham and other meat, then broke into the textile shop a few doors along and took 100,000 slovak crowns worth of clothes - all of which was caught on the security camera on the corner building.

I spoke with another class this morning, a far livelier discussion, as their teacher asked me some excellent questions - like, 'how is this music?' which sparked a conversation about dada, the futurists, musique concrete and john cage. One girl in particular was very intrigued, asked lots of questions and confessed her dream to travel all over the world. She will come and visit me in the studio. The teacher told me he thinks it is good for these teenagers to have another perspective on the world, something abstract which is not all about money, status and being practical. Which no-one has accused me of in a long time - although you'd be surprised how pragmatic I am.

A very cute older lady in a light blue wool coat stopped and chatted to me in the lane by the Russian cemetery - she spoke in Hungarian, but I think was saying that she enjoyed the article, recognised me from the beret. Really wish I had got her name at least, to meet with a translator. Speaking with some of the older people will be a good counterpount to all these teens - also the factory workers. Must arrange it with Terry. But this afternoon a trip to Esztergom, where I now have the address of three antik shops to visit for my picture viewer search.