Day 42- July 6th: It's Sunday again!

Today is another typical Sunday for me but it's also one of my last days in Budapest before I start my travels and depart the residency. It's emotional that everything is coming to an end and what happened yesterday was also tragic and still fresh in my mind.

I did all my laundry and cleaned up my living quarters. I packed and looked out the widows for a long time once again because I am not sure when will I be back in Budapest and it's hard to leave after being a full time resident of the city for over 42 days.


In the evening I went for a walk in the city and had dinner at one of my favorite sidewalk cafes. Things have returned to normal again and the evening air fresh once more.

Day 25- June 19th- Life without Rudee

photo: in silence we stood.

After Vienna I was exhausted and slept till 2pm. I finally got myself up and moving and went to the cell phone store and recharged purchased more air time. Waled around mindlessly and came back to the residency for an Art opening! The work was interesting and it's by an children's book artist who lived till the age of 95. It's amazing how he painted with such innocence and child like at such old age.

Andrea (my new roommate) and I went for a long walk around the city, I tried to find the Artist Club where the last residency had dinner one night but was unsuccessful. So we end up getting a little lost but we did spend some great time on the Danube's bank and watched the rights across the water. It was a wonderful and peaceful experience. Later we went for a drink and chatted a little more.

We didn't talk the whole time, sometimes there is just silence between us but we did not feel uncomfortable or had the need to fill the space with sounds; at those moments we understood each other clearly.