Most of the Americans I have met in Hungary are members of an international teaching program called CETP. Emily and Chad, here in Szolnok are a part of the program, and while Chad and I strolled along the streets of Ljubljana one night a few weeks ago the world proved to be even smaller yet when we ran into a group of 5 CETP teachers from Hungary who were on a weekend adventure of their own.
Many of these teachers keep blogs of their own, and I've come across a few postings I think deserve the attention of my readers.
Jeremey (who happens to be from Fond du Lac, WI) offers a wonderfully written piece on "why he came to Hungary." Anyone who has ever considered traveling to this part of the world should take a moment to read it. It's spot on.
After a few more minutes of exploring Jeremy's blog, I found another entry even more moving. If you are a teacher or someone with a place in your heart for compassion, please read it.
I know there are many other worthwhile CETP blogs, and I'll make an effort to pass along the best as I find them, but I've spent too much time already pouring over Jeremy's writings for one day.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~G.K. Chesterton
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~G.K. Chesterton
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
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