By popular demand.... or a tip off..

I'm putting up a new post. Because my dearest mother told my dearest sister who told me through twitter. Yeesh talk about direct. You could just skype me MarMar. Kidding. Love.Love. Love Love. Szeretlek. Te Amo. All that good stuff :)

So a new post hmmm.... I have peanut butter... thats exciting right? Sure it is because until like last week I was unaware that peanut butter existed in Hungary. Guess what? It does but as an imported product.

I got a lovely care package from my grandma last friday with fluffy slippers, a robe, some knitting, and food... which brings me to 2 topics

1. The depressing fact that the majority of craveable american foods are prepackaged and only need hot water... (jello, stuffing, koolaid....etc)
2. I made jello for my host family last weekend. Needless to say they loved it. I mean how can you not? It's squishy blobs of amazing...

ooh I took public transportation from school to my host grandma's house ALL BY MYSELF and didn't die. While on the bus to my host grandmas house I even found some people from the US who were studying or backpacking in Hungary which was nifty. It's super weird when I think about how this time last year I would never have been able to go up to a group of complete strangers and strike up a conversation, take public transportation alone, or be able to "speak" Hungarian. Needless to say I am somewhat proud of myself. Watching my own progress is kind of incredible...

I spent Friday night at my friend Vivi's house thats worth blogging about right? Sure it is. T'was quite fun, Agi and Vivi turned me into a smokey eye'd raccoon, we watched movies, and made suti... fun stuff. I'll make a post with pictures soonish...

and yeah. I think thats just about it... I'm happy to say life has finally taken some consistency. Hence the relatively scattered post. My next post will make Ms. Spence proud. I promise ^_^

So yeah. Let me just say Happy Almost Halloween to all my lucky duck Americans

♥

Michael Jackson is hiding in the Cauliflower.

Please disregard the title of this post. I couldn't think of anything to call this post and that was the first thing to pop into my head. The past week has been pretty good. Things have started to calm down and I've got a pretty good schedule. School, home, study hungarian, repeat, Rotary meetings every other Tuesday and hanging out with friends on those Tuesdays and on the weekends.

I shadowed my friend Timi at Szent Erzsébet school. Needless to say I enjoyed it immensely.The people and teachers were super friendly which I really liked because I don't really get much of that atmosphere at Csik Ferenc. Not to mention the school is absolutely gorgeous and a huge Basilica overlooks it with the Duna and Slovakia alongside it. So yeah crazy gorgeous, crazy amazing.

But yeah back to the whole friendly teacher thing... in California I have a really good relationship with the teachers in my school. They smile at students between classes and are generally enjoyable people. Whereas at Csik Ferenc I made the mistake of smiling and saying "Jo Napot"(good day) to a teacher and I was glared at. O.o It kind of took me back seeing as I don't know why anyone would want to become a teacher unless they enjoyed students... and you'd think it would be basic common courtesy to at least acknowledge someone who greets you in the hall ways... I guess not? Who knows...

Not me. Thats who...

So yeah. I'm alive and well and Szent Erzsébet is an amazing school I think is my point of this post.

PS. I still don't understand Butter on sandwiches.

I have a grilled sajt szenvcs. Be jealous.

I just realized that I haven't posted on here in a while. Not because I've been busy... simply because I haven't thought too. Well, no I have... but whatever. The point is I'm writing right? Of courses right. So yeah... RYE went to Venice,Italy last weekend. A lovely 10 hour bus ride there, twelve short hours to explore an amazing city filled with art, culture, and history, and a 10 hour bus ride back. Venice is everything the books, movies, and pictures make it to be and so much more. Miles and miles of little alley ways, shops with everything from perfume to butterfly knives, singing gondola guys, and restaurants with everything from Pizza to pirsciutto and brie sandwhiches. Argh my spelling has gotten so bad >.< I went exploring this amazing city with Ariana (Florida) and Frank (California) we tried to go off the beaten path whenever possible. (not the sketchy unbeaten path, more like the residential unbeaten path) and found some amazing little churches filled with hundreds of years of art work and small squares with apartments surrounding a large well. With not a tourist in sight. Frank and Ari knew their way around Venice pretty well because they are Assasin's Creed fanatics which was super funny and helpful at the same time. For those of you who don't know assasin's creed, its a video game that has used the google maps street view to enhance their game. Ooh on Tuesday Sam and I had our Rotary Presentation, I'd like to think that went reasonably well. It was a presentation on the United States so the fact that I live on the West Coast and Sam on the East I think helped a lot as far as a good presentation goes. There were some Swedish Folk visiting our club too so I had the honor of repeating

Me- "Hi I'm Katie from California'
Them- "is your last name Perry"
Me- "..."

I guess I should count my blessings that they didn't start singing California Girls...

So yeah Venice was amazing, school is going great and my Hungarian is getting better everyday :) I'm so close to actually being able to form sentences! :D