Valentine's Day

This past week has been really fun. My Combinatorics class was canceled, which meant only two 8 AM mornings and Monday off of school! It was so nice having all that free time! I also missed 3 hours of class on Wednesday morning to go get my residence permit so it really didn't feel like I went to school this week. Classes here are usually run such that an hour or two a week is devoted to problem solving and I had that in my Number Theory class on Thursday and it was so much fun. The problems were fairly hard in this one class but the proofs, once you get them, are beautiful. And you have a professor watching every step of your problem solving so I feel it really will help me get down how to do various problems.
My friends and my Valentines Celebration has been a three day extravaganza. On Wednesday night, we went out for our Valentines Day dinner (myself, Kailyn, John, Jacob, Nicky, and AJ- the people who have basically become "my group") at Menza, which many guidebooks call the best restaurant in Budapest. It was so good and even with getting dessert, we paid like $13-14ish for our meals! We will definitely be back there! I only had two hours of class on Thursday because of my other class being canceled and it was such a fun day. Nicky and I walked to class and stopped at fun stores and actually ended up being a few minutes late (whoops). After class, we shopped for supplies for Friday's party and dinner. I then went to see a movie about Paul Erdos, a mathematician, which was very interesting. After that, we had dinner. It is becoming our tradition to get together and cook dinner on Thursday nights. Thursday night, on actual Valentine's Day, some girls had decided to host a girls only party with lots of chocolate desserts. It ended up being really fun. I hadn't even realized that I barely knew most of the girls here and we gossiped and all the info came out. The girls all agreed we should meet back in a month and have another girls party!
Friday night was the big finale of the Valentines celebration in my opinion at least. Kailyn, Nicky, and myself had decided to throw a Middle School Dance party and we had gotten two other guys to host our party at their apartment. We made a great playlist, put up decorations, spent all Friday baking for it, and it ended up being awesome. We all dressed up middle school (Kailyn has pigtails, I had heart shaped pink clips and sparkly nail polish). Nicky and I danced to middle school music for like 5 straight hours! A lot of people got into it and we even had awkward slow dancing to the slow songs! The two guys who hosted agreed to host any of our parties in the future- we're thinking a country party in a few weeks!
This afternoon, my parents and little brother arrive in Budapest for a week (my sister is in school right now and couldn't come). I'm excited for them to see this place I now call home and meet my friends. But for now, math homework (ya, we actually do work here... crazy!).