Day 2

I finally got to bed last night about 1am Hungarian time, which means I had been up 41ish hours! This actually turned out to be not so bad because I went to bed at a regular time in Hungary so when I got up this morning I didn't feel jet-lagged at all! My mentor came to my flat this morning at 11 and we went to school to get my new cell phone and my student ID. For my ID I needed passport size photos, but I had neglected to get any before I came to Budapest. This meant that I had to go to one of those photobooth kiosk type deals and take pictures there. This sounds simple, but I had to get the appropriate change (which meant I had to buy this delicious chocolate croissant) and then take my photos. I put the change in the machine and all of a sudden it began flashing and shooting pictures. I wasn't sure how many picture it was taking (the instructions were all in Hungarian) and I was taken so off-guard that I start laughing and spazzing out like normal. All in all I ended up with 4 very weird pictures. The first one (the one I ended up using as my ID, is me looking off into space), my head isn't even in the second one, and the third and the forth my eyes are closed. Hahaha, well at least I have an ID now. After we got my school stuff taken care of, I got my lost bag (yeahh!) and headed back to my house. Viki then took me to the Basilica which is really close by and we looked around at the beautiful building. We then took the underground to this delicious Indian place. I went back to my apartment and met one of my roommates, Katie, from Portland. After hanging out a bit (Katie went to bed after traveling all day plus some) I went for a little walk to see what the neighborhood has. I ended up going to get some dinner at this place called California coffee shop. HHhahaha, I know, I know, not very Hungarian, but it was there, I was hungry and I wanted to see what it was like. It is basically what you would find in California, except for one thing. It seems as if everyone in Hungary smokes, they even allow smoking in the restaurants. Hungary does seem like old-fashioned America, there's indoor smoking, a lot of fur, and people generally dress nicer, I don't think I saw anyone in jeans today, and a lot of the boys at school had ties. I like it! Anyway, all is well here and I am very glad to be in this cool country, even though I feel very lost :)




The Courtyard in my building



My awesome school ID




In front of the Basilica



The Basilica






The view from my window



My Hungarian breakfast. This Croissant thing is so yummy, it's called Keeflee, but I'm sure it's probably spelled like szkolzileefliazzbjz or something.