Day 64 From the Small Essays to the Lowering Expectations of Taste Buds

I started to write yesterday, but kept falling asleep. The chapter is about: `What is Glocal Trinnovation? Think globally, act locally and combine tradition with innovation. Low carbon footprint considerate design and its long-term advantages of local skills, materials and markets for the local community. ` I try to think about it as a small essay as Christina advised. I woke up this morning at 4.30am and suddenly daunted on me: literature review! I started to panic and suddenly couldn`t even remember what it was. I suppose this is quite normal when one is behind schedule and the rest of the life`s circumstances are not in favour to write and complete a thesis. However, I am pressing on.

Yesterday I had a day off and it went without trace. In the morning I attended my first staff meeting at SPS, which was a great experience and breakfast was sorted at prayer breakfast. Someone offered cooked food, which I got two portions out so I had 3 good meals yesterday. This is very different from what I was writing about food back in Hungary. There it was all about overflow and the excitement of taste buds in a uniquely traditional way. Here in England at the moment it is all about being able to eat 3 times a day no matter of taste buds excitement or nutrition intake. Well this I certainly wasn`t prepared for neither physically, emotionally or mentally when in great excitement I said yes for Mission Year. I suppose it will all be better once I finish the thesis and can take on more work. That is other 3 months. It is a new challenge to be on the receiving side, I`ve been on the giver side before and now I am over the moon when offered a pack of rolls and a bag of tomatoes. Writing is very different as well. While in The House with The Garden I was surrounded by peace and inspiration from nature in the pace of unique quietness flowing from the birch trees. Here it is overcrowded, noisy and time-chasing once again not leaving a chance to capture the beauty of nature. This is a big city. Almost 12 million people are living in greater London, while less than that in Hungary itself.

I am hoping to be able to chase the beauty of nature in Hungary once again from next July until than I take one day at a time.