Hi firends! I have know learnt how to introduce and give some basic information about myself. Above I am greeting everyone, saying my name, my age, where I am from, that I am a student and that I am learning Hungarian.
In our classes we have a range of cultures and some which do not speak Angol (English). Although the teachers do not take the classes in Angol we as diak (students) communicate to each other in Angol. If others in the class can't even understand Angol and can learn Magyar (Hungarian) I should be a pro right? No, no I sit there stumbling over my pronunciations and dreading the moment when it is my time to talk in front of everyone. It is like high school French and German all over again the only difference I want to be here. I am still really enjoying the classes, I can count reasonably well which helps out a lot at the local markets (which are incredible!). The language itself though has what I think is the most confusing structure, and as you can see from my writing I hardly know the structure of my own language! What I taught myself previously about Magyar seems to have gone out the window. There are multiple meanings and ways to say everything. For example: Kerem which I know to be please can be used to also say "You are welcome" when buying something. This is just one case of many which I find hard to wrap my brain around. The language is also what I would call backwards in many ways. As you can see form above I say "Becky vagyok" which when translated becomes "Becky I am". We have been working on how to order foods in restaurants which is so handy, but I have not yet got the confidence to do so myself.
We went to the Zwack Museum on Tuesday. Zwack produce an alcohol called Unicum which some people say is similar to Jagger. This I don't quite understand. The company has been owned by a family for 5 generations and they were lucky enough to get the company back after the Government took ownership over it during communist periods. It started off as a medicine - who said booze wasn't good for you! It is now one of the most popular shots in Hungary. It definitely needs a chaser to get rid of that medicine taste. We got to sample three different types they have made, and we LOLed when the Italians got drunk and loud from just the three shots. My binge drinking culture has made sure that I can handle three shots at a school field trip thank goodness!
Apart form that my days have been fulled with class in the morning. It is long, hot and sticky. Then we have had two Hungarian culture lessons which has left me more in the know about how Hungarians came about and what happend WW1 & WW2. I am beginning to feel more comfortable telling people I am Hungarian with all this knowledge and bits of the lingo.
Last night we went for a walk along the Duna (Danube) and into town. The streets really come alive at night and I feel like I am starting to see why everyone loves Hungary so much. There are street performers and patio bars everywhere. The lights in the city make all the old historical buildings look 10 times more impressive then they already are (see photos from post yesterdayof Buda castle and one of the bridges). I couldn't stop smiling, I think it is finally starting to set in that I am overseas in this beautiful city and my eyes are really being opened! Tonight we are going to venture out to a restaurant to get a bit more spice in our diet as the food at the hostel has been a bit bland, but that is a story for another day. Then we are going to check out what the nightlife has to offer here!
I hope all is well back home, if anyone has any questions feel free to leave a comment and I will be more then happy to reply! I will leave you with some photos I took this afternoon of the City Market. The one of the lace table cloths is for Mum, they are gorgeous and so long! One on the dinning room table would be nice!
Sziasztok!
**Unfortunately I am unable to use the right characters on my computer so it is not correctly spelt without the accents.
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