Hi everyone!
I can't believe it's October already! Time flies when you're having fun, right? :-)
This week has been a very good one! This past week's field trips were a lot of fun! The murder trial was pretty interesting! It was hard to follow because it was all in Hungarian, but Ildiko (the Hungarian professor who leads the field trips) wrote notes throughout the trial explaining what was going on. It was the day that the judge gave the verdict, so we didn't see any witnesses being questioned, but it was still neat to see! After the court, and lunch, we had a tour of a nearby monastery, which was really cool! It was up on the hill (mountain?) side and so had a gorgeous view, and the inside was beautiful also!

The trip on Wednesday was really cool too! We had a tour of the police station after a brief presentation on how things work within the Hungarian police force. After the tour, we headed over to another building where they monitor security cameras that have been placed around the district. (I got to ride in a police car over there! fun!) It was really neat to see footage that they had from different cameras-footage from a recent riot, and the recording of a car backing into another one that they used to prove whose fault the accident was. Overall, a very good week of school! :-)

And this weekend has been very nice!! We've had two movie nights so far, one on Thursday and one last night. And I've gone running twice! (On Friday morning and this morning) I went with my friend Danielle over to Margaret Island where they have a running track that's about 5.2 k or something...not sure, but it feels nice to be running around outside. And the view is awesome! (I'll post some pictures...) And this weekend we have also made some plans for next weekend: we're going to go to Prague! It'll just be for two days/one night, but we figure that's enough to see things and that way we don't have to book hostels for two nights.

So I think that's about it! We have a paper due this Thursday (our first one of the semester!) and then midterms coming up...but we have plenty of time on the weekends to get things done! :-)

Hope you guys are doing well back home!!

view from Margaret Island: