Két Napok

Két Napok means two days in Hungarian. These first two days I have been here in Hungary have been absolutely beautiful! It has been nothing but sun, food, and Hungarian!

Me and my Country Contact in America (Colleen)

I like the clouds

Budapest airport (before customs)

The plane ride here was long and boring, mostly because there was a storm in NYC the delayed or canceled all flights. I was supposed to be getting on a plane in JFK with 4 or 5 other exchange students, but all of their flights were either delayed too late or just plain canceled, so I was the only on the plane.

When I arrived at my home Haza, I was amazed at how beautiful house it was! It was great! But, upon greater inspection of the houses in Dabas I realized that every house was beautiful!

Leves (Soup)

Chicken with dumplings (My host brother Berti in the backround)

Coffee

After I got home we ate lunch, and since I was a little hungry coming into Hungary I sat down to eat. There was a bowl of broath and a big bowl of chicken and vegetables in the center of the table. We would take chicken and vegies and put it in our broath to make soup. I ate it all (it was delicious) and was like "Ok, this was a good lunch". But next thing you know, my host mother brings out the SECOND COARSE. It was Hungarian dumplings with some kind of chicken. I ate a full plate of the too (still delicious) Then my host mother brings me out Ice cream (yum), then after that coffe where my YEO Frici stopped by to collect some things and tell me about my weekly hungarian classes (YES!).

I haven't used the t.v. yet (I don't think I would understand it yet anyway)

My room was great! My host parents made me a nice set-up full of pictures from home and my dual-flags. The cieling is very high and there is a door way that leads to a bathroom. This bathroom just had a shower and a sink, the toilet was in a sepret room. It was the most interesting thing ever going to the bathroom for the first time in Hungary. There is toilet paper dad, so that was good. The hole that everything goes down in (usually in the center of the toilet) was in the front part of the toilet. It took me forever to figure out how to flush it! There was no handle! There was somthing going into the wall but I'm pretty sure that's where the water comes from. The tank was attached to the wall and upon further inspection of it I realized you could push on it to make it flush! But depending on if you are going 1 or 2 you may need to make a couple more flushes.

Floating Island

A little later we went to my (host uncle's???) Birthday party. Fortunately for me this uncle lives in Ireland and is fluent in English. So we had a big dinner with a whole bunch of family with the word Tessék (Here you go) being thrown around everywhere. After my host brother Berti took me outside to play with all the other little children. This was very awkward because everyone was just standing there asking me questions (btw, they knew not one word of english) and I understood nothing. Finaly my brother touched me and everyone ran (I was it) I'm glad we could connect on something haha. After I hid from the kids (because I was exhausted) inside, they brought out cake (the good kind) and then this thing called a "floating island" (It tasted like marshmellows but wasn't)

I also find it a good to mention that besides the water I bought at JFK, I have not had one drop of regular water since I got here. It's all been this "fizzy" water, but I'm growing on it. Instead of soda they use this and add different "syrups" to add flavor, but I've mostly had it plain.

Under the bridge

I don't know these people, they just happened to be there.

After the party we went to Budapest to watch fireworks for St. Stephen's day (indepedence day for Hungary) and they were amazing. The whole time I was thinking that they started with the finallee and just never felt like stopping. Budapest is beautiful by the way! When everything was over the streets were filled with people! You could not fit a car accross the road! We got home at around midnight (where I passed out)

Berti and my host mother Netti walking

Frici's outside kitchen

The next day we went to a walk to Frici's house for lunch. They made everthing outside and we ate outside. I guess Frici and his wife used to spend the summer out here, that's what they told me. The is a bed outside too with a t.v./computer mounted to the wall, and a bathroom was around the corner. Basically my new hobby is sitting down and listening to people speak hungarian for more than an hour at a time. We did speak about american football for bit, Frici's somewhat of a football finatic. We discussed teams and what positions we liked. Frici's coordinator for the football team in town and when I told him what positions I liked he responded with "I have plans". That was when I started to think that there was a reason they picked a big, broad, american boy to live in Dabas haha. When we got up my host parent left for home and I was pushed into Frici's car along with Berti.

Look how dinky their Ice cream is!

I can't pronounce the name, but it is good.

They took me to this festival in the first district of Dabas. It's this festival for the Slovakian minorities in Dabas. We watched this dance they did around town (with lots of crazy screams) and the mayor of Dabas was there to speak (I understood nothing he said, but appearently he made a good speech)

Hungary is so great! I love it! Even though I can't understand anybody! But I learn! I have to get to bed now, it might be 6 PM in Remsen, but it is midnight here (I'm very tired right now)

BTW if there is any questions you want to ask, comment and I will answer in the morning!