{"id":1735,"date":"2016-11-19T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2016-11-19T17:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T17:53:58","slug":"07-29-08-04-2013-departures-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/07-29-08-04-2013-departures-arrivals\/","title":{"rendered":"07.29-08.04.2013 \u2013 Departures, arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two mentored and two mentors have arrived to us in the afternoon of the 2nd<\/sup> of August: Gerg\u0151, P\u00e1l Vaskuti\u2019s son, and Gerg\u0151\u2019s girlfriend are the mentors. Korn\u00e9l came here to rid himself of his addiction to medical pills that developed because of his sleep disturbances, severe anxiety and depression. Also with us is L\u00e1szl\u00f3, who is leaning towards suicide.<\/p>\n

The newcomer mentored are both 19 years old, which means that two adults came here for the therapy. This change has it\u2019s effect on the rest of the mentored (12, 15 and 17 years old): the first days of the new lineup are much more quiet than before. This certainly has two reasons: everybody is a bit shy with unfamiliar people, and also the growing of the average age results in new ways of communication with both the newcomers and the \u2018old-timers\u2019. Korn\u00e9l has never swam in \u2018big water\u2019 before, which made our first joint trip to the ocean shore special. The kids got to show Korn\u00e9l and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 around the coasts of Unawatuna Beach \u2013 one of the recurring venue of our stay in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

On the last day of two mentors and a mentored on the 31st<\/sup> of July, we decided to go on a River Safari, travelling on a motorboat, around the 64 islands of the Madhu river. The two-hour trip had a lot of new experiences in store for us. Exotic birds, sunbathing monitor lizards were hiding between the mangrove trees, even a long-tailed monkey joined us in our boat for a while. One of the islands goes by the name Snake Island, because local people bring the snakes to the island when they find one in their own backyard (we obviously didn\u2019t dock there). On another island which we visited, an old man lives in his small shack made out of clay and leaves of the palm tree. He makes his living by nurturing and processing cinnamon trees growing on his island. He showed us how to cut the crust into small pieces, how to wrap them together and then let them dry until they are ready to sell. He also demonstrated the many healing effects of cinnamon oil.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen a small, one-person temple built on a few rocks emerging from the water. We\u2019ve seen how local people hunt for crabs, we went for a \u2018fish pedicure\u2019 (small fishes eat the upper epidermis off of the foot hanging in the water), and we could hold baby crocodile in our hands \u2013 at least the ones who had the courage. We went by a pub made for the fishermen, which was told by our tour guide to be a dangerous place. Lastly, we docked our motor boat at an island where an enormous Buddha statue was guarded by one Buddhist monk living in isolation, on the island.<\/p>\n

This was the farewell to the \u2018July turn\u2019. We\u2019ve spent two nights with only six of us there instead of nine \u2013 then came the \u2018new people\u2019.<\/p>\n

These are exciting and emphatic changes. In August, two kids\u2019 parents are coming for family therapy, and in part to see our circumstances of our lives here. The new people will go on a three day trip when the parents arrive, which will take place on the 18th<\/sup>, and on the 26th<\/sup> we go back home. We began reckoning with our months spent here, though some of us only start to dig into work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two mentored and two mentors have arrived to us in the afternoon of the 2nd of August: Gerg\u0151, P\u00e1l Vaskuti\u2019s son, and Gerg\u0151\u2019s girlfriend are the mentors. Korn\u00e9l came here to rid himself of his addiction to medical pills that developed because of his sleep disturbances, severe anxiety and depression. Also with us is L\u00e1szl\u00f3, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chanceprogram.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}