Snow...

is really really cold and terrible and just really not pleasant at all. In fact despite its awesome-ness, it is far more trouble than it's really worth. Therefore, I never wish to have to live in it again. I'm glad I figured this out early in life so I don't find my self living in Alaska some cold day in the future. Global Warming my apse. (which for all of you who didn't know an apse is a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used esp. at the end of a choir in a church, not just a nice way of not saying ass. So there. You've just been EDUCATED!) That is all I have to say on this topic until further notice.

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Anyways...

Being an exchange student is freaking weird. Really, my opinions and views are changing I'm realizing things I wouldn't have realized had I spent this year back in the States. This time last year I had no idea I would be going to Hungary. I knew, or at least hoped, I would be going abroad but if you had put last year's Ukiahi me in Exchange student me's place, I wouldn't believe this was really my life,. Did that make sense? I feel like it didn't but it should. In essence, I am incredibly grateful for this honor that has been bestowed upon me. Because it has been about a year since that first application I felt the need to say Thank You Thank You Köszönöm Szepen to everyone who has made this year turn out the way it has. This isn't even the end of my exchange. Statistically its not really even the middle. Either way, a year has gone by since I got myself into this mess and I am thankful.

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I have found a norm here I have an amazing family and friends. There is a family who lives in the flat above my host grandma who are amazing. The father is from California and knows where Ukiah is as he lived in Los Angeles. They remind me of traditional (Northern) California neighbors. That is to say warm, welcoming, and incredibly friendly. (I say Northern California simply because we tend to trust our neighbors more than say our Southern population. [I feel like population isn't the right word but you get the idea]). I hope to hear more from them.

Sorry.. tangent. But the point is, I have found a norm, a life really. The fact that I have to move to another family, one that is even farther away from school than the family I am at right now while the other exchange students have the privilege of living in the city is simply not fair. When did we draw straws and if so, why didn't anyone tell me I was drawing the short one? Never have I not wanted to move from home more than I do (or don't rather) now. The family I'm in reminds me of my own. Everything from the random singing and dancing to the way my host siblings interact with each other. Words simply cannot describe how happy I am here.


I think this is an appropriate enough update. With this I bid you good day.

Szia
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