« nealkolohic | Main | The Kö-Ki »
November 16, 2001
Steak!
It still blows my mind that I am living in Budapest. I am feeling more at home here, and that just makes it all the more outlandish. I'm getting used to living in Budapest! Crazy. Each day is going faster too. The first few weeks seemed to stretch out forever, now each day seems to be over as soon as it starts. I don't feel like I've been here very long, but it's almost Thanksgiving. I guess it's good - time flies when you're having fun. But it goes by so fast, that I get to the end of the day and often can't recall what I just spent my last 24 hours doing.
The Hungarian school system seems to be scheduled by an incommunicative child with ADD. Class schedules change on a whim, and we only learn about significant events (like all-school convocations, or national standardized tests) the day before they happen. I am supposed to see the advanced 9D class twice a week, but I think I have only seen them three times since the middle of October. I still don't know why we didn't have class one of the times. On Monday, someone just told me not to come to school on Tuesday, so I didn't. I don't really try to understand. I just accept and move on.
I finally got some steak last week. You may think this is a small thing, but I love red meat, and I haven't had a steak since I came here. You can't throw a rock in this country without hitting a butcher shop, so I'm sure steaks are around, but I hadn't been able to get one yet. Last week though, I visited a friend in a small town called Vác (pronounced Vats (with a long a (like "open up and say ah"))) about an hour north of Budapest. I love train travel by the way, a round-trip ticket to Vác costs about $1.80. Anyway, we went to a sweet restaurant shaped like a boat and I ate a gigantic steak! Finom! (That's Hungarian for delicious) It made me so happy.
Posted by neal on November 16, 2001 07:29 AM