JessicaDawn

Remember all that fish soup that I was writing about earlier?? Well the other day a Rotarian invited us over to his house for homemade fish soup and red wine (an absolute must when eating fish soup) and as we were chomping down on our fish soup we start talking about what goes in this soup. He says something in hungarian that we dont quite understand so he says in english "fish milk". We just look at each other trying to figure out what this milk could be. Him, realizing that we dont know what it is trys to clarify by adding "you can only get it from male fish". mmm mmmmm. Pass the soup please! Just before easter was here my Hungarian teacher starts telling us that the traditions celebrated here might be a ... read more

As December was rolling in, the main thing that was on my mind was: how does this Christmas business go down in Hungary? Unfortunatly I will tell you about that next time around because this Christmas I spent in Esberg Denmark! Ok, ok, the beginning of the story goes as such: I was due to switch host families on December the fifteenth and I didnt fancy too much spending the Christmas season with strangers, so with some help from back home we got it worked out and I went up to Christian McNeils house up in Denmark for the holidays. At first I was only planning on staying there for Christmas then coming back to Budapest for New Years but Christian told me right away, if I am going all the way up there I have ... read more

Aaaaalrighty, so this is going back a bit. Just be happy knowing that Hungary is being so good to me, that the task of writing travel blogs just seems so boring. But non the less I will now attempt to tell you some good stories! So around Thanksgiving time I was thinking that I really would do anything for a bit of turkey with some cranberry chutney and a piece of pumpkin pie. I started talking to my friend Laura (shes also a Canadian Rotary exchange student) up in Budapest about this and she was thinking the same thing, so a week or two after Thanksgiving I was up in Budapest with Laura deciding on a menu! After we got the menu figured out (with many an email and phone call home to get the reciepees ... read more

District conference in Debrecen! Overall it was a blast, met all of the exchange students in Hungary (there is about 40 of us) and there are five from Canada! Including three from Alberta! And there were about a million from Brazil and Mexico (alright maybe 15 or 20 in total but it seemed like a lot). And these guys seriously never stop singing and dancing and just partying, theyre crazy! Although we did not get to sit through the information sessions in a bikini (sigh...only Kristina is lucky enough), it was fun and they did set up a disco for us in the evening. The conference itself was held just outside of the city in this historic type site where there were remnants from the days of Stalin and their socialism/communism period. It was really neat, ... read more