Events 8/31-9/2

Wednesday was a fun day. Language class in the morning, which was a review of the foods and numbers, in preparation for going to the market the next day.

In the afternoon, I went on a river ferry, to an island on the Danube River. Lots of great pictures. I made an album just for them:
https://goo.gl/photos/KXFShTyPMCrUdgHN7

It was a cool ride, taking about an hour. We got on at the first stop, so we got to sit up front. We got to see the great architecture on the river side. Lots of unobstructed views.

The island was also cool. There's a bridge to it, and there's even a bus that stops on the island. The island is very large, over a mile and a half long, and about a third of a mile wide. We probably walked about two-thirds of the length. Early on, there's a huge fountain, with speakers, and the fountain dances to the music playing. You can see a video in the above album. The island itself is full of green space, and has a central park type feel. We went back to the dorm after that. It was a great day.


Thursday day morning, we went to the market to test our Hungarian. There were a bunch of stalls set up, selling all the fruits and vegetables that are in season in Hungary. I struggled with my Hungarian, tho, and one of the shopkeepers even only spoke to me in English, since he couldn't understand my Hungarian. I got some raspberries, pears, and a head of cauliflower. We then got langos or palacsinta. Our teacher called ahead to let them know, since they had to make way more than usual to feed our large group. Palacsinta is a kind of pancake/crepe type of thing, sweet, with lots of different toppings. I got langos, which was kind of like a salty elephant ear, with garlic, cheese, and sour cream. I would have gotten the other topping, ham, but they were out by the time I ordered. We went back afterwards, to meet with Aaron Stevens.

Aaron Stevens is a pastor at a nearby church, and the man setting up our service-learning. We got a basic orientation from him. There was even a part where he clearly pretended to drop a bunch of papers, and had us pick them up to distribute them. I'm not sure he knows we're adults.

Afterwards, I chilled out, studied, and actually watched some of the tigers while studying, through an online stream. (They won in nailbiter fashion, their last run scored was a bases-loaded walk).


Friday morning, I had my Corvinus orientation, which was shorter and to the point. It was nice, and I'm looking forward to my class there. In the afternoon, language class was slightly shorter than normal. It was a lot of review, going over what people had been struggling with, especially their double consonants (like "ch" in English).

I went shopping after, going to the mall. They had some cool chairs, and a Lego store!

Really comfortable chairs; you can sit on the lower part and either rest your back or your arms, depending on which way you sat.

This was even better in person. All made of Legos.

I did more studying, and took an early night in, as I was still tired.