Finally I got home after having traveled a half of month. I am not sure when I am going to write my essay about this trip, my 1^st Eastern European journey.

(Budapest, 11/6/2009)

For me, travel is a state of mind and a special being of life. It really opens and expends my version of this world.  It is the travel in reality that is so new and so fresh. During this trip, I have overcome many difficulties including language. Many Hungarians do not speak English at all. One day, I had to change the trains four times by finger-pointed a map and a list of names of train stations to ask strangers, as I wanted to go to the largest thermal lake in Europe (the 2^nd largest in the world).  I felt so good when I was swimming there.

(the largest thermal lake 温泉湖 in Europe: Heviz. 11/5/2009)

I have found another kind of travel ----- reading English novels. I took John Irving’s A Widow for One Year with me during this trip. I read it whenever I had nothing to do or waited for the train. I enjoyed it very much, which is quite different from reading Chinese novels. It gave me a sense of travel in the imaginations and creations that are also fresh and new.  One thing I am sure is that I am going to read more and more English novels.  

Someday I will write an English novel. It is my next dream. However, it is very likely to take 10 years to get it done. Even if it is not got published,  it certainly helps my English skills for my state of mind.:)