I'M HOME!!! :-)
flights went smoothly, my whole family was there to pick me up at the airport!!! :-)
so I don't have power at my house yet, which makes it sort of interesting, but I'm not really jet lagged and not too much culture-shocked besides almost saying "excuse me" in Hungarian to someone at the airport...
yeah. but it's good to be home!
I'm thanking God that everything went so smoothly!
talk to you guys later!!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
The last weekend...
Hello!
So I haven't updated this in a while, and I head home soon, so I figured it was time for a new post :-)
Things here have been good but busy lately! we've been finishing up school stuff--two finals, two final papers, and a field studies journal. But I am now done school for the semester! It is sort of crazy to realize that everything is almost over--that I will be home in three days...But I'm really excited to see everyone!!!
well, I should go! I have a lot to do today (and this weekend in general): Christmas shopping, packing, cleaning, more Christmas shopping...plus I want to walk around a bit and see the pretty Christmas decorations and stuff! That should be nice! (there are some Christmas markets that some friends and I are going to visit!)
So I will see some of you when I get home monday evening, and the rest of you sometime in the near future!!
enjoy your weekend everyone!!!
~Andrea~
So I haven't updated this in a while, and I head home soon, so I figured it was time for a new post :-)
Things here have been good but busy lately! we've been finishing up school stuff--two finals, two final papers, and a field studies journal. But I am now done school for the semester! It is sort of crazy to realize that everything is almost over--that I will be home in three days...But I'm really excited to see everyone!!!
well, I should go! I have a lot to do today (and this weekend in general): Christmas shopping, packing, cleaning, more Christmas shopping...plus I want to walk around a bit and see the pretty Christmas decorations and stuff! That should be nice! (there are some Christmas markets that some friends and I are going to visit!)
So I will see some of you when I get home monday evening, and the rest of you sometime in the near future!!
enjoy your weekend everyone!!!
~Andrea~
Friday, November 28, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!!
By the way...i hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving!
mine was great! my whole group got together to do a dinner, and we had a TON of food! it was awesome! we got turkey and ham and mashed potatoes and stuffing and carrots, peas, green beans, rolls, cheesecake, ice cream, apple turnovers....it was yummy :-)
and it was nice to be with everyone since i couldn't be with everyone back home...but I got to talk to family types that night! yeah. so it was a great day!
and i'm so thankful for all of you guys back home, and i'm excited to see you all soon!
take care, and enjoy the weekend!
mine was great! my whole group got together to do a dinner, and we had a TON of food! it was awesome! we got turkey and ham and mashed potatoes and stuffing and carrots, peas, green beans, rolls, cheesecake, ice cream, apple turnovers....it was yummy :-)
and it was nice to be with everyone since i couldn't be with everyone back home...but I got to talk to family types that night! yeah. so it was a great day!
and i'm so thankful for all of you guys back home, and i'm excited to see you all soon!
take care, and enjoy the weekend!
Pictures!
Here are some pictures from my Poland trip!
From Auschwich
"Work Makes You Free"
From Auschwich
"Work Makes You Free"
A park near our hostel
The rest of these are from the old city...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Poland :-)
hey everyone!
update on my latest travels: I went to Poland last weekend! It was a sorta last minute thing: we'd been thinking about it for a while but didn't actually book anything until Thursday (and we left on Friday...). So that was pretty cool!!!
We took a bus to Krakow on Friday afternoon..it left Budapest at 2 and was supposed to get there at 9:30. well, things don't always go quite as planned: there was a snowstorm. so we went wicked slowly, got stuck at least once, stopped a couple times (i made my 1st snowball of the winter!!) and finally reached Krakow at about 3:00am. yeah. so that was a looong bus ride!
The next day, we got up and took the 1 1/2 hour bus ride from Krakow to Auschwich. we took a tour in the freezing cold (it was snowing again) which was very...i dunno...interesting, depressing, neat but sad. it was crazy to actually be in the place where all of the disturbing, terrible things happened: we saw the prison cells, the tiny shoes of all the kids that they killed, the luggage of the Jews who thought they were just moving to a new place, the room full of hair that they shaved off because it could be used to make clothe...we walked under the gate stating "work makes you free" into the compound surrounded by barbed wire...we stood in the gas chambers and saw the ovens they used to burn bodies after murdering people.
yeah. so needless to say, there was a lot to think about on saturday.
after that, we went out and had a nice dinner (it was SO CHEAP! i love conversion rates in countries that aren't on the euro!) and then saw a couple bars before turning in for the night. (oh--forgot to mention: the kids sitting in front of us on the bus also happened to be american college students studying abroad in Budapest--one at Corvinus another at a different school--and they were staying at the same hostel as us! so they joined us for dinner & stuff. that was fun!)
On sunday, we checked out of our hostel and then braved the cold and snow for a little while so we could see the old city. it was really pretty!! we stopped in a couple stores to warm up in between seeing old churches and castle-type buildings. (i'm not really sure what some of the buildings were, but they were pretty!!) after we were sufficiently frozen, we went to the mall that was right near the bus station. we ate lunch there (which turned out to be a bad idea: no one really liked the food they got...oh well...) and then bought a few snacks for the return bus trip.
At 2:30 we got on the bus and settled in for what turned out to be only the 7 1/2 hour bus ride that it was supposed to be! (on both bus trips they played movies almost the whole time, which was nice!!)
yeah, so that was my weekend! It was awesome! very relaxing and very, very pretty!! the snow reminded me of home and Christmas...it was probably one of my favorite trips this semester!
I only took a few pictures, but i'll post some once I've uploaded them to my computer!
see you all soon!!! :-)
update on my latest travels: I went to Poland last weekend! It was a sorta last minute thing: we'd been thinking about it for a while but didn't actually book anything until Thursday (and we left on Friday...). So that was pretty cool!!!
We took a bus to Krakow on Friday afternoon..it left Budapest at 2 and was supposed to get there at 9:30. well, things don't always go quite as planned: there was a snowstorm. so we went wicked slowly, got stuck at least once, stopped a couple times (i made my 1st snowball of the winter!!) and finally reached Krakow at about 3:00am. yeah. so that was a looong bus ride!
The next day, we got up and took the 1 1/2 hour bus ride from Krakow to Auschwich. we took a tour in the freezing cold (it was snowing again) which was very...i dunno...interesting, depressing, neat but sad. it was crazy to actually be in the place where all of the disturbing, terrible things happened: we saw the prison cells, the tiny shoes of all the kids that they killed, the luggage of the Jews who thought they were just moving to a new place, the room full of hair that they shaved off because it could be used to make clothe...we walked under the gate stating "work makes you free" into the compound surrounded by barbed wire...we stood in the gas chambers and saw the ovens they used to burn bodies after murdering people.
yeah. so needless to say, there was a lot to think about on saturday.
after that, we went out and had a nice dinner (it was SO CHEAP! i love conversion rates in countries that aren't on the euro!) and then saw a couple bars before turning in for the night. (oh--forgot to mention: the kids sitting in front of us on the bus also happened to be american college students studying abroad in Budapest--one at Corvinus another at a different school--and they were staying at the same hostel as us! so they joined us for dinner & stuff. that was fun!)
On sunday, we checked out of our hostel and then braved the cold and snow for a little while so we could see the old city. it was really pretty!! we stopped in a couple stores to warm up in between seeing old churches and castle-type buildings. (i'm not really sure what some of the buildings were, but they were pretty!!) after we were sufficiently frozen, we went to the mall that was right near the bus station. we ate lunch there (which turned out to be a bad idea: no one really liked the food they got...oh well...) and then bought a few snacks for the return bus trip.
At 2:30 we got on the bus and settled in for what turned out to be only the 7 1/2 hour bus ride that it was supposed to be! (on both bus trips they played movies almost the whole time, which was nice!!)
yeah, so that was my weekend! It was awesome! very relaxing and very, very pretty!! the snow reminded me of home and Christmas...it was probably one of my favorite trips this semester!
I only took a few pictures, but i'll post some once I've uploaded them to my computer!
see you all soon!!! :-)
Sunday, November 16, 2008
pictures!
So here's some pictures from last weekend with Mom & Julia!! I would love to post all of them, but unfortunately some people are a little bit picture-happy and there are over 600 of them. :-) so you'll have to settle for 9. enjoy!
night view of the Danube, Parliament, Chain Bridge, and Castle.
Us at the castle district
In the castle district
Julia and a friend in the castle district ;-)
Mom & I in the castle district
St. Stephen's Basilica
Liberty Statue
At the baths
night view of the Danube, Parliament, Chain Bridge, and Castle.
Us at the castle district
In the castle district
Julia and a friend in the castle district ;-)
Mom & I in the castle district
St. Stephen's Basilica
Liberty Statue
At the baths
Heroes' Square
Thursday, November 13, 2008
last weekend
hey all!
things here in Budapest are going quite well!! this weekend was wonderful as i had a visit from Mom and Julia!!! it was awesome to see them! we got to see so many cool things! we went to the castle district, margret island, the liberty statue, the baths, hero square, st. stephen's basilica, the malls, my school, the central market, city park....plus we ate lots of good food!! i of course had to introduce them to don pepe's (my favorite pizza place) but we also had gyros, some good greek food, and of course authentic, hungarian, goulash soup. it was awesome!!!
and of course all of that was mixed with good times filled with laughter, random picture taking, a couple movies, some late nights and a (very) early morning. oh--and we went to church on Sunday!! that was probably one of my highlights of the weekend! and Mom planned a birthday party for me! it was a lot of fun!! spice cake and ice cream and candles and presents and friends AND family!! yay!
so yeah, it was an awesome weekend!!!! i'll probably post some pictures soon! and if i've left anything out, i'm sure you can bug Mom or Juli for details :-)
I hope everything back in the US is going well, and i can't wait to see the rest of you when i come home in a month!!!
have an awesome friday tomorrow! and then a great weekend!!!!
~Andrea~
"How great is our God! Sing with me: how great is our God! And all will see how great, how great is our God!!" ---the first song we sang at church last Sunday :-)
things here in Budapest are going quite well!! this weekend was wonderful as i had a visit from Mom and Julia!!! it was awesome to see them! we got to see so many cool things! we went to the castle district, margret island, the liberty statue, the baths, hero square, st. stephen's basilica, the malls, my school, the central market, city park....plus we ate lots of good food!! i of course had to introduce them to don pepe's (my favorite pizza place) but we also had gyros, some good greek food, and of course authentic, hungarian, goulash soup. it was awesome!!!
and of course all of that was mixed with good times filled with laughter, random picture taking, a couple movies, some late nights and a (very) early morning. oh--and we went to church on Sunday!! that was probably one of my highlights of the weekend! and Mom planned a birthday party for me! it was a lot of fun!! spice cake and ice cream and candles and presents and friends AND family!! yay!
so yeah, it was an awesome weekend!!!! i'll probably post some pictures soon! and if i've left anything out, i'm sure you can bug Mom or Juli for details :-)
I hope everything back in the US is going well, and i can't wait to see the rest of you when i come home in a month!!!
have an awesome friday tomorrow! and then a great weekend!!!!
~Andrea~
"How great is our God! Sing with me: how great is our God! And all will see how great, how great is our God!!" ---the first song we sang at church last Sunday :-)
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