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Happy Queens Day to all my Dutch friends!
This is a big year for the Netherlands as Queen Beatrix is stepping down and handing her leadership off to her eldest son, meaning a KING is taking her place. The last time the Netherlands had a King was in 1890. Can you believe it?! It would've been awesome to be in Amsterdam now for Queens Day!

Today I met up at Corvinus with Laurent and Amanda to work on a presentation due Thursday and then I ventured to Deak ter (popular square here in Budapest - shops, restaurants, touristy) to get Starbucks. Thought this was interesting.. Starbucks here sells Waffles!

And they always think my name is either Mari or Mary. I've decided if I get Starbucks again, I'll just say my name is Mary to make things easy. Venti iced green tea, please :)

After I got Starbucks on my hour of time to kill, I headed over to the Buda campus to go to my Resources of Viticulture class. Today we talked about the design and structure of a vineyard - a lot of issues are taken into account when a vineyard is being developed. Spacing between rows and vines, sunlight, angle of row, etc. Our teacher is taking us on a trip to Tokaj - a really famous vineyard here in Hungary - in two weeks! I have a final exam in my advertising class that day, but I can also take the advertising exam four days later on the 'make-up' day! So, I am definitely going to take the opportunity to tour the vineyard at Tokaj and taste some famous wine from that region! Tokaj is known for its dessert white wine - not a big sweet white wine person, but still down to try it!

Tomorrow is a holiday here in Hungary - May Day/Labor Day! It's said to be a celebration of spring, but also a national holiday for workers!

There are no classes tomorrow (I don't have class anyway), but I'm planning to get together with my group to work on our presentation due Thursday. Tomorrow night is the ESN Farewell Dinner! Looking forward to a fun evening!


xx

P.S. - the medicine worked last night! I only got up once and coughed for about 5 minutes and then was back asleep! Hallelujah!!