I am here!

Greetings from Budapest! It is so awesome to be here! After sitting in the airport for way tooooo long I finally boarded my plane for Heathrow, Wednesday night at 6:30. I was seated on the most gigantic plane I've ever been on... I'm talking monstrous, this thing was bigger than my house. Anyway, I sat next to this super old Irish man who was great. He kept talking to me the entire 9 hour flight, but I couldn't really understand anything he said so I would wait and see if he laughed, and then I would laugh, or I would nod, or occasionally say "What?!?!" and then we'd try to have a conversation. The plane we were on had tv screens on the back of the seats and he couldn't quite figure his out. He kept pushing my remote and changing my channels, but I didn't care because I had no sound from the headphones so I wasn't watching it anyway. About 2 hours into our flight he turned my tv on and said "would you like to watch a program?" I responded with "Well I would but I have no sound so I can watch it but I can't hear anything." To this he said, "Well just use your imagination" and we then watched figure skating for the next hour. Wahoo! hahah. The flight was pretty uneventful expect the British flight attendant fighting with this other British lady who didn't want to sit in coach even though that's where her ticket was, but I was entertained because it was like watching a British comedy. Anyway, from Heathrow I flew to Budapest, again not too eventful, thankfully. I got off the plane in Hungary and went to collect my luggage. I had heard stories of baggage being lost from numerous people so I luckily placed all of my important things (underwear, toothbrush, etc) in my carry-on, because when I got to baggage claim I only claimed half of my checked luggage. This really sucked. At first I thought it couldn't be really that my luggage was lost because there were literally 20 other people standing around the same kiosk thingy waiting for their bags..but no. Somehow we all had our baggage misplaced. This required going to a counter, getting papers, going to another counter, signing the papers, going to customs to have the papers stamped and then finally being able to go home without your bags. Awesome! haha. After this minor problema, I headed outside to meet up with my Hungarian mentor Viki. She's 24 and a law student at the same University I am attending. Viki picked me up, after waiting for an hour for me and we headed to Budapest. We met up with my landlord, or his girlfriend, or his business partner..I'm not sure who she is, but anyway she let me into the apartment and gave me the 411. This place is beautiful! Afterwards, Viki took me out to get money out of the ATM, buy some groceries and meet up with her boyfriend. We went to this mall that is possibly the biggest mall I've ever been in and got some sort of dinner that was chicken and potatoes and this corn with mayonnaise and a Fanta that was looked like Fanta but was a different color pop color and tasted different. We then took the Subway back and now I'm about to go bathe and pass out! All in all a great start!