Bustling about her bland business with a chuckle or a warm word for everybody — "That Mindy!
Half-time 46 mins: Marseille kick off, while I bask in the warm glow of everybody's good wishes.
"I wish that we could keep everybody warm," the UNHCR's Amin Awad told reporters, adding that 11 young children froze to death last winter.
It was freezing, but the occasion kept everybody warm.
"It just got warm out … everybody dies in the summer," he notes with a shiver in his voice.
The temple and its reflection on the water is breathtaking, but what left me pondering for days was witnessing the volunteering service that offered a free warm meal to everybody who visited.
I know it has nice beaches, and warm weather, and everybody wants to go there to one of the resorts and relax and drink a ton of booze and feel great about life, but imagine if you lived there.
I saw the movies with friends and relatives, over and over and over, and quoted lines, and had favorite scenes and characters, and generally whooped and hollered to get in on that warm communal experience everybody else in the world seemed to be having.
Not everybody warms to the idea, not least self-critical citizens of Europe's economic dynamo.
Which is partly the reason why not everybody warms to his rigour and severity.
