Too Cocky For My Own Good

Austria

I have shared a number of stories about my first mission trip to Albania in which I was part of the Albanian Evangelical Rural Outreach, or AERO for short. The thing about that trip was that it was so spectacularly different from anything that I had ever done before it really truly became a life changing event. I can honestly say I have never been the same since that time. It reshaped how I think about nearly everything. How I interpret things, and how I respond to things has taken on a whole new face during, and after that experience. It gave me a whole new sense of confidence not only in myself, but also in God. It showed me that even though this world is full of terrible injustice and hardship, God really does care through the people He has raised up to accomplish His will. The problem is, not all of us respond to God’s call, or some people are actually antagonistic against it, and so… the… world… is full of… terrible injustice and hardship.

But this trip was full of so many new experiences I couldn’t help but change. So what were some of the firsts? Well, flying into remote villages in the Balkan Alps by helicopter was a biggie. The villagers didn’t know that we were coming, but within minutes of landing we were surrounded by people who lived as they had lived for generations on the side of the mountains—no electricity, no running water, no roads (only sheep trails), and no consistent contact with the outside world (this was before cell phones). Strangers rarely came, and many people had never seen a non-Albanian before, let alone an American. The Communist government had only recently collapsed and for most people America used to be the enemy, so that in itself was a unique situation in that they wanted to know all about us.

We knew that our second village was just over the mountain in a valley to the west. We asked if there was away to get there with our equipment—we were trying to avoid using the helicopter as much as possible because of the expense. One of the men volunteered to take us the next day. We packed the equipment on his small statured Albanian horse and headed up the mountain following the sheep trails, and then descended into the next valley after we had crested the summit. Before we reached the next village it began to rain hard, which made for an even more adventurous experience.

The villager’s hospitality was another impressive eye-opening experience. I wrote about it in detail in my previous post, Hospitality/Albania. We were strangers, but the people accepted us into their homes, fed us, and helped us travel to the next village, and made sure we were safe. Over the next few years as I went back to Albania for the AERO Projekt, I had several men, whose hospitality we had the privilege to enjoy, say to me, “It would be better for our whole family to be killed than for anything to happen to you as our guest.” And they meant it! Wow. It explained a story from the Bible in the book of Genesis, that I never really understood until then, about how two angels disguised as men went to a city and were given hospitality by a guy named Lot. The men of the city came that night to do harm to the two angels, but Lot tried to dissuade them by offering his two daughters. From my cultures perspective I could never understand why Lot would do that, but these people in Albania lived that kind of hospitality. If your guest, even though a stranger, entrusted their safety to you, then you are willing to die for them as a matter of honor. I think I have become a better host since those days, but I’m still not sure I would take it as far as they were willing to.

I traveled down a river on a barge, ate really different kinds of food, learned to use a Turkish toilet (see previous story, I Don’t Think I would Have Said It That Way), learned a few words in Albanian, and only had enough water to take two cold showers while I was there. I survived the terrible stomach ailments that devastated so many of the Americans due to the food and water, although no one left Albania unscathed. We all at one point or another experienced a weakness in our bowls. The final affliction of diarrhea, the point in time when we knew that either it had hit you or it hadn’t hit you yet, became referred to as Michael Angelo or Picasso. Sculpturable, or unsculpturable.  Most all of us left the country unsculpturable (Yes, this is a new word).

All this is to say, by the time the project was over I was feeling pretty darn manly. When our American team left Albania we had to spend the night in Vienna, Austria. Many of the team were tired and wanted to stay at the hotel, but I and four other guys decided that we should see as much of Vienna as we possibly could so we went on a night tour of the city arranged by our hotel. The tour bus took us to eat at an authentic Austrian restaurant, and then drove us around a bit. We rode the Riesenrad, the big Ferris wheel, at the Prater Amusement park, which has fifteen huge gondolas from which you can see all over Vienna. When we were at the top of the arc, I overheard a young couple who was with us in our gondola, speaking English. We hadn’t really heard a lot of English since we had left home, and so we were drawn to it. An amazing small world kind of story is that the young couple was on their honeymoon. They lived in New York, but they were originally from our hometown of Wichita, Kansas. Who would have thought?

The highlight of the evening was an orchestrated Waltz performance by professional Viennese dancers in the gardens behind a palace. The evening was cool and pleasant as we sat around tables on a veranda . It  had been very hot in the villages and in our base camp, so the cool Austrian breeze was a welcomed relief. There were several waltzes performed by four beautifully dressed couples in formal attire. After a time the maestro turned to the audience and said in English, “Ladies and gentlemen, will you please waltz with us The Blue Danube Waltz. Vienna is the birthplace of the waltz, and The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss is one of the better known waltzes. There were two little old German Ladies that were on our bus tour who were sitting at another table. When the music started they bobbed their heads to the beat with big smiles on their faces. I thought, How can we come to Vienna, and not waltz to The Blue Danube Waltz? I caught the eye of my buddy Russell who was thinking the exact same thing, and the two of us got up and each tapped a little old lady on the shoulder, and chivalrously  extended our arms, and said, “Frau bitte.” They immediately—and gleefully, I might add—jumped up, and we headed to the dance floor. Neither Russell, nor I really knew anything about the waltz. We were in to the Texas Two Step, so our little old ladies had to lead, but we still had a great time. After that for the rest of the bus tour the German ladies got after the bus driver/tour guide for not pointing out more land marks for us in English. You might say they had our backs for the rest of the tour.

When we finally got back to our hotel, Russell and I stood outside for a while enjoying the coolness of the evening. Like I said after all I had been through over the last couple of weeks I was feeling pretty manly…I was feeling pretty tough… I was feeling pretty good about myself spiritually, mentally, and most of all at this point, physically. To prove it I said to Russell, “I am going to flatulate.” Because of our intestinal problems passing gas was something that we had not been able to do for nearly two weeks. Russell wisely advised with a shake of his head, “Don’t do it.” I said, “No, I’m feeling pretty good, I think I can do it.” I ignored Russell’s advice. I will just say, It didn’t turn out the way I was hoping it would. So much for being cocky.

I hope you are not offended by this story, but like I said at the very beginning of this weblog all these stories are taken from the journals of my travels. Some are serious, some are funny. Some have valuable life lessons, and some are embarrassing, but they all really did happen. In reality, I guess this story actually portrays a very valuable life lesson. Need I say more?

God Bless You until next time.

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