It's finally spring! I've been doing my spring dance all week! First time I've gone outside without my big red winter coat. I'll never wear red again, for a long time, if ever. I got outside a lot this week - running, walking, hiking. Loving the weather! I tried to get a group to go rowing again but the day I wanted to go people were already busy. I'm not sure what is going on, but I may be part of a Budapest rowing competition on May 9th? Not exactly sure, but waiting to hear details. That could be really fun! Haven't raced since nationals the summer after my senior year of high school.
Recap/Highlights of the week:
Monday - Advertising presentation at 8am. Our teacher said we had a wonderful presentation and actually told the class to study our presentation because exam questions may be taken from our powerpoint! Whoo!
Tuesday: Skipped my resources of viticulture class to go to the gym. I'm taking this class for fun and it will not be transferred back to USC, so I go when I feel like it. But, this week there was a wine tasting... and I missed it. Awesome. But, I emailed my professor an assignment that's due in a week and told him in the email that I would love another wine tasting! ha so we'll see if that happens. I guess I'll be going to class from now on in hopes of another wine tasting. Tuesday night was my Belgian friend, Marie's, birthday! We went over to her flat to celebrate for a little while with everyone! We tried to go to a bar afterward and usually girls get in for free but the bouncers at the front were really rude and wanted to charge us all $5. A lot of people didn't want to pay for an empty club (some of our friends were inside and called and told us it was pretty empty). So then the bouncers said we could all get in for a total of $45 so we spent about fifteen minutes trying to get all of the money together and then we went up to him and he said "Sorry, deal's over." What? After that I just went home because I wasn't going to put up with him.
Friday: Ana and I went thrift store/vintage shopping around Budapest. Didn't really find any quality clothes, so I didn't end up buying anything. But, it was a lot of fun walking around and scoping out different places. On our way home, we saw a few of our guy friends doing a free walking tour with a tour guide so we ran up and scared them. The tour guide ended up greeting us and talking to us for a little and we didn't mean to interrupt that much. We stood there for a little and then left a few minutes later. haha
Later Friday night as I'm watching a Fright Night Lights TV episode, all of a sudden the power goes out and a really loud alarm outside my window goes off. I kind of sat still for a second and looked around. And then me and my two other flat mates walk outside their room and we all are like really confused. And then I freaked out because I wasn't sure if there was an intruder, or if there was a gas leak, or if something happened and we needed to evacuate. We opened our window to try to see what was going on and we couldn't see anything. We looked out the other window that opens up to the rest of the flats in our building and noticed that everyone's power was out. First we called our landlord and he was like "What do you want me to do? I'm 200 km away. Call me on Monday and I can come fix it." haha excuse me what? I don't think he understood because we were just asking him what it meant, but even if our power was out just in our flat, we would have to wait until Monday. Gee thanks dude. Then we called an ESN guy to ask him what this meant because this never happened to any of us before. The power going out and a loud alarm? After about fifteen minutes of freaking out, Frederique and I went downstairs because we heard a lot of people down there sounding like they were trying to fix the problem. We went down to ask what was going on and they said the alarm of the shop next door is connected to the power in our building. So when our power went out, their alarm went off. Interesting. They said that the power should be back on in about 30 minutes. We went back up stairs, lit some candles, and had some quality flat mate bonding time in the living room. It was actually quite nice. Later, later that night I met my friend Sarah out at Szimpla, which is a famous ruin pub in Budapest. She had two friends visiting her, one of them who will be coming to Prague with us next weekend! So we had fun there - it was really crowded though. More crowded than I've ever seen it. They went out to a club afterward but I decided to head home. Today I have a lot of school work to get done before I leave on Thursday for Prague!!
Tomorrow we are doing a hike/roast. An ESN guy, Istvan, found a little place where we can start a fire and roast food, so we are going to do that for lunch but we first have to hike there. We've been trying to plan this for a while, but we were waiting for nice weather. It finally came!
On Wednesday, Anthony got me a ticket to a hockey game, so I guess I'll be going to that. Don't know much about it, but I'll let you know! That's all for now!
Can't believe I'll be coming home in 5.5 weeks. Time has flown by here.. literally flown.
Next weekend: Prague, Czech Republic
Weekend after that: Krakow, Poland and then a trip to Auschwitz concentration camp
Weekend after that: Enjoy Budapest
Weekend after that: EMILY COMES TO BUDAPEST!!
Weekend after that: Exams are over and I have one more week in Budapest. wow.
See you soon 'merica,
xx
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