Orchid Story 47-48 - Really getting to know

September-October 2007

My Dear Orchid Story Reader

The holiday season continued over here, on the land of orchids... but how exactly?

1. My brother, Andris and his Kinga visiting me
2. All sorts of things

1. My brother, Andris and his Kinga visiting me

You may remember that last year this time I wrote about their wedding. Secretly-not secretely I was hoping that after having given them the newly wed gifts, i.e. Singapore-Thailand-Malaysia-Indonesia travel books they would come here to celebrate. And the strategy worked ;-)!!! We spent two beautiful weeks together! During the week they did sightseeing in Singapore, on the first weekend we relaxed on a secluded beach on the Malaysian Tioman island and on the second weekend we went to the Thai Krabi island to roam around, ride elephants, walk around in the jungle, take a boat for island hopping, get grilled under the sun! You can find pictures here :-)!

Our time together allowed me to get to know Kinga better and to really get to know my brother, Andris. We lived together last time 15 years ago, ever since then we only met up for weekends and then for Christmas breaks but that was not really what I was looking for. I realised what a loving husband and man my brother grew up into being and I was really proud of him. It was such a great thing to really get to know him! Now I am hoping that my other brother, Erno and his family will visit me, too so that I can really get to know them, too :-)!

2. All sorts of things

· After the summer holiday season and all the traveling it was time for more of studying. My professor teaching the last modules have different and higher expectations so it takes up most of my free time.
· Due to the approaching dance performances, the number of practices has increased from one to four-five per week! Yeah ;-)!
· Our friend, Pilli held her farewell party on the Malaysian Rawa island and she is already dearly missed...
· Irina and I spent a few days in Hanoi, the ”Paris of the Orient” because of our company event in March.
· As I ended up getting a flu, even though I prepared for a mini marathon at the end of October, I could not attend it so now I am training for a run in December.
· On an event held for physically and sexually traumatised kids, with my company I spent half a day with a ten-year-old Malay girl in the Botanic Garden. She was very closed initially but after some games and running around she grew to be an energetic lovely little one :-)!
· The Hungarian Embassy organised an October 23 celebration with nice snacks and delicious wine from home. It was a smiley-happy evening, I tell you :-)!
· At the last travel fair in Singapore, I ended up promoting trips to my country and round trips around the region. It was awesome to see what an egzotic (!!!) destination my country is from this part of the world ;-)!

Hmmm. Enough of me for the day ;-)!
Hugs and love
Gitti/ Hugi/ Margit