"Hello good afternoon!"
"Hey Tony, it s me, Viljo."
"Hi Viljo, how are you doing?"
"I m good, thanx, I mean, I m not even sure how am I doing" I answered honestly.
"Yes I understood from your message and I do remember you, what s happening then?"
"Hey, it s just little bit complicated, I was wondering if we could meet again?" I asked.
"Sure, whenever is convienient for you!"
This reminded me his helping attitude. Always asking how it s more convienient for me.
I asked if we could meet today, it wasn t fine to him first, but then he said if only afternoon. I had nothing on this afternoon, so we decided it for 2 o clock.
"Take your time, whenever is convienient for you.." This sentence started to stuck in my head already.
Emmy, my mate from media workduties showed me video project that she had to be finished by tomorrow and then I realised that it s almost 2 o clock. So I called him again and asked if it s ok to meet a bit later in 45 minutes. He was fine.
"Whenever is convienient to you."
I went home quickly to take camera with me.
I didn t want to be late anymore and I grabbed few coins that I earned from busking yesterday. I caught taxi and asked if he can get me to Forester Street with these coins, there were about 14 AUD. He agreed. Taximeter ran somewher 18 but he was fine, I gave what I had.
I love taxidrivers. I was used to be taxidriver myself back in Estonia for 5 months. Usually you give a tip to them, well, if you like taxidriver. If I didn t get a tip, then I would think automatically that probably the client didn t like my driving or me, or yes, client was just poor. But taking a taxi, you shouldn t be really poor. At least in Estonia you don t take a taxi if you don t have money. And what was I doing? Putting my last coins to taxi? And not even be able to give a tip. Taxidriver was fine. He asked me over the address, but it was complicated.
"Can I use your phone to ask it from him again?"
"Yes, here it is."
He asked me what am I doing and I told that I m part of missionary organisation. I know that taxidrivers love to have conversations with their clients. Otherwise they shouldn t work in the sector where communication is needed. I miss taxidriving. It was cool. Just having conversations with so many random people. He didn t take me to the house though, maybe because I didn t have money enough.
I gave him all my coins.
"How am I going back then? Train costs at least 2 dollars" I was thinking to myself.
Tony offered me couple of coins later but I didn t want to take. I didn t want to give him expression that I went to meet him for money. I told him about my situation where am I at, but I didn t want to take these coins and put them for school when I knew that he was giving them for train. So I walked back. It was abound 6 km I think, but I loved walking. I took many pictures too.
It was good meeting. We just talked about my school again. He had lovely I would say humble little house.
He had many pictures on the walls. Pictures of musicians and about himself, some big paintings of Jesus too. He was catholic. I was forgotten that he had religious background. Then I saw guitar there and I played him the song that I wrote about month or 2 ago. That s funny to sing a song to somebody who doesn t understand the language. The song is in estonian. I recorded it also we days ago with Emmy. The link is here.
And he also had piano at house and I played that too. He encouraged me a lot and promised to come and donate when I m busking again. I just need to inform him when I do that. That s the question to myself too. When? I was gonna do it today, as I just used money for taxi, money that I was gonna put to school. But without Emmy I don t wanna go very much. She was tired today. If I m out the school from tomorrow then I need to find out new way, and that s where he was gonna try to help me like he said: "If I can."
If he can t then God still can. Nothing is impossible for God. I like that.
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