So I haven't done too much lately. Last weekend, I signed up for a nighttime run through Budapest. It was short, just 4 miles, but it was very scenic. We ran over a bridge, beneath the lit up Buda Castle and Gellert Hill, back over a bridge to the finish. It was a great run, though I had trouble getting there and getting my registration numbers (they had lost my online registration, also I didn't know where the race started...hah), but everything worked out and the people were very helpful. I even met a guy from Big Rapids there.
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| Gellert Hill, with what I call Budapest's Statue of Liberty (that angel up there) |
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| Buda Castle at night, I didn't take this, but I wanted to show you what it looked like lit up when I ran by |
Let's see, what else? The other Americans and I didn't go anywhere this weekend because we wanted to stick around and get to know the Erasmus students (the other international students). We're all classified into two different groups: American, or USF (University of San Francisco) and Erasmus. I just get called a USF student, oh well. Some of the Erasmus kids live in the building next to mine, and they had a bunch of us over for dinner to have a kind of meet and greet. Two of the three hostesses are from Spain, but there was no Sangria....... What a shame. Everyone is very sweet though, and the Spanish ones are helping me remember all the Spanish I learned up through high school. I can even speak some French now! J'ai mal a la gorge: My throat hurts. J'ai mal au dos: My back hurts. Bonne nuit: Goodnight! :-)
Well. Since I have been spending a lot of time in my flat recovering and doing a whole lot of nothing, I think it'd be a good idea to post some pictures of where I'm living :-) mostly to spice up this boring post.
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| My living room! Where I'm sitting right now. |
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| Kitchen. |
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| Only the latest in exercise technology |
I don't feel like too much of an alien here anymore. I'm picking up on the language. For the most part I know what people mean, and I can kind of make some sentences (with extremely poor grammar and an atrocious accent!). The best part, however, is that I know my way around the city. The Erasmus students did a "treasure hunt," as they called it, of the city a few days ago. It ended at a club (of course) called the Living Room, where another USF girl and I met up with them. It should have been called the Dancing Room(s). Great music, by the way. Techno and trance is really growing on me. I'm not sure about this one song though, called We No Speak Americano, I get the feeling it's kind of some European inside joke...hahah! But the point of that story was that I had to walk all the way back to my flat (as by that time the metro and the trams were closed) with only a metro map that doesn't have street names on it. I somehow found my way! And it only took 40 minutes! Actually that's kind of a long time hahaha.... I'm really just trying to say I can navigate the city now, above ground. It's quite a different trek when you're sitting on a subway and have no idea what the street looks like above.
Anyway. I am supposed to be going hiking tomorrow, but I'm not 100% sure that I'm going as the weather is cold and wet and I'm still trying to shake a cough. But considering the rest of the bad decisions I've made about whether to go out and dance or stay in and get rid of my cold, I'll probably be going hiking. I also have a train ticket to Croatia, where I'll be from September 23-26. We have a big group of kids coming with us, and I'm meeting two of my friends from SLU who are studying in Rome. We're planning on staying in Zagreb, and taking a day to visit the Plitvice Lakes, which I couldn't be more excited to see! I will definitely have pictures from there!
I hope everything is going well for you! Thanks for keeping a tab on me.
Love, Amy
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