Finally in Hungary

Well, I'm here. My flights were very smooth though 9 hours is a crazy long time to be on a plane. No complaints there though because I ended up next to a very nice British woman coincidentally also named Katie. However, once I got to London I was super confused because I thought I only had one boarding pass (turns out the guy at the desk had put my other one in the folder thing) so I'm running around the airport trying to find where my flight connects and all that jazz and finally I get to the terminals and I don't know where my gate is (it wasn't printed on my ticket) and people keep telling me to look at the screens. Well, the screens don't tell you where the gate is. So here I am half asleep trying to figure out the time and where the heck my gate is. I finally find it and get on and all that jazz. I must have been tired though because I honestly don't remember falling asleep. Just getting on the plane and waiting for it to take off. Then waking up to see that we were flying over Berlin. woot. So finally off the plane and I find another guy in his lovely Rotary Blazer who is the Alaskan Student, Collin. We pick up our luggage and go out to find out families. Within 5 seconds of looking around I see my Host family, Uncle Janos, Kata, Betti, Krisztina, and Zoltan. Kata, who is starting first grade tomorrow immediately grabs my small rolling suitcase and happily prances away. When we go out the the car I meet my host brother, Adam who is freakishly tall. My entire family is all very long and lanky by the way... It is about an hours drive to Mariahalom on the drive there I show Betti and Kata those magnets that I've been playing with for the past week and like everyone else spend hours playing with them (haha) and Kata showed my how she could sing "This is Me."from camp rock. She was actually really good especially seeing as she doesn't speak a word of english. We finally get to the house (which is gorgeous) and Janos's wife (who I can't remember the name of) is there. I get the grand tour of the house and we go over basic things and I am shown my room. It is a small room but very cozy and beautiful. Kata and Betti had taken on the task of labeling everything from the wall to the lamp with its Hungarian name which was super cute so now there's sticky notes covering my room. I unpack and we eat dinner. Krisztina had made traditional goulash which was delicious and Betti made banana bread for dessert. After dinner I excuse myself and go to bed as I was exhausted.

Today I woke up at 8 ish (11pm PST) fully rested and ate breakfast with my sisters and Adam. We watched SpiderMan 3 with English subtitles. A little while later I went with Betti and Kata to the store to buy some school supplies as they start tomorrow. Rain is cold here! So yeah. I have to go to Budapest today to go to a Rotary Meeting, the immigration office, and meet my grandma who I will be staying with on Thursdays because Krisztina works in the city that day.

So yeah, it's amazing here, the food, family and scenery is amazing.

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