Still Here and Alive

I've realized I've stopped updating but that's mostly because life here is just... life. It is normal for me to live in a country where I don't speak the language, take the bus to school, be surrounded by math majors from all over the US (and my roommate from Canada), all that. Last week it did feel a little weird to be here because it was room draw and registration is this week so I've mentally been at CMC a lot in the last week. Tomorrow is the one month til I go home mark, which feels weird. I'll end up being 3 days short of being out of the US for a full 5 months. Pretty crazy.

But yes, last weekend was one of my most fun weekends in Budapest. I stayed out late every night- pretty out of character for me but fun to do every once in a while. The first night we went to a bar, then a chocolate bar (chocolate fondue and really really rich hot chocolate), and then another bar with dancing. We stayed out dancing and karaoking (is that a word?) until 4 in the morning but it was a great, fun night. Morrison's (the place we went) will now likely become a regular Thursday night thing (staying out all night to catch a 6 AM bus to Poland on Friday morning is the plan for this weekend). And the next morning, someone hosted breakfast meaning excellent french toast and good company!

Friday night we had another girls' party. Girls' party roughly translates into all the girls in my program get together and share all stories of who is dating who, who is hooking up with who, etc as well as some actual deep conversation about being abroad and stuff. It's great fun! Not too much new stuff had happened since the last girls' party in February that everyone didn't already know about it but it was still a great time. The people in my program really are all nice, good people.

Saturday night was another awesome, fun night. Some friends and I have concocted a Siamese Twin party. The premise is everyone gets randomly paired with someone else and they are tied together for the night and then everyone watches hilariousness ensure. Well, unfortunately, the rest of the program was not very excited about this party idea so it basically ended up being those of us who came up with the party theme. However, we stayed strong and tied ourselves to each other (I kid you not). It was good fun. My twin and another set of twins even decided to attempt a limbo contest while tied together (and I am embarrassed to admit we lost to two guys lol). After that, we attempted to go out dancing but not enough people were into the idea so the idea quickly died. But this evening was also followed by french toast!

I was sure by this point in time in the weekend, after three nights in a row of little sleep, that Sunday would be a mellow evening. I was wrong. Another girl in my program and I had decided to make dinner for anyone who was interested and serve Passover food so we could feel like we did something for Passover, even in Budapest. We made charoset, kugel, matzah brittle, matzah pizza, and a lentil salad- all good Jewish food! It was a success- we had like 15 people and the matzah brittle and pizza were especially popular! After that, four of us decided the night was not yet ever and wandered the street of Budapest while drinking some beer and ended the night with finding some gyros

Now I have a normal week, then going to Krakow, Poland to see Auschwitz (and meeting Michelle, my best friend from high school!) then Michelle will come back to Budapest with me for a few days. Then I go to Paris for a long 4 day weekend! After that, we have our last full week of classes and my 21st birthday! Then we have another 4 day weekend (likely with a trip that is not yet booked), then 3 final days of classes, then finals! Crazy how fast time has passed!