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 [View Full Entry]

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so as usual, in my sometimes abundant times of nothingness, such as rotary meetings, school, walking, busing, and other random times i think about the usual things for an exchange student. one thing that comes up often is what im going to do when i go home, or what im going to eat, or what im not going to do and not going to eat. and i decided that the best way of being able to do/not do all of these great canadian things is to enlighten all of you so that MAYBE you will let me have my way for [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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A few weeks ago I promised my host family that I would make them some Canadian pumpkin pie. The other day Gabi came home with the ingredients that I asked for, except in place of a pumpkin, she brought butternut squashes. Well...I just have to say that by the time I come back to Canada I will be able to make a five course meal from eight different ingredients. After I thought, 'hey who ever said pumpkin pie was any better than butternut squash pie?' I got onto creating. It turns out that they dont own a rolling pin, so I [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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Alright, so first off: Rotary planned a trip for the rotarians and their wives (since there are no women in my Rotary club) and us Szeged exchange students to go to the city of Estergom for the weekend. This is in north western Hungary and in the glory days of Hungary the city was built to be the Rome of Eastern Europe. So there is alot of history and religion there. We left Szeged around noon and on the way there (we went by bus) the rotarians were passing around bottles and bottles of wine and palinka (a really really strong [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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mmm mmmmm! Fish Soup! Every year Szeged has its famous fish soup festival, right on the Tisza, which is where all of the fantastic cooks catch all of the fish to make their fish soup (mainly what they call 'small fish' and carp). One bank of the Tisza is full of tents with people selling all sorts of touristy things and ice cream, and there is a stage (on the water!) with bands and such entertainment. The other bank of the Tisza is where all of the fish soup is made. This is kind of like a contest between Hungarians: who [View Full Entry]

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Nothing like taking grade 12 twice! So yes I have officially begun my Grade 12 year for the second time. So the school system is a little different, the students do not have the option of taking fun options like in Canada, which for me is unfortunate, but its not to bad. I am in a couple of classes and the class that sort of adopted me is very nice. The only difficulty is that all of the courses are taught in hungarian (no surprise there!), so far now that is a little hard, and I mostly just zone out and [View Full Entry]

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Depending on you this entry will either be really interesting or really boring. Its mostly about Hungarys history and politics and yadda yadda yadda.. So I am learning a bit about Hungary. Its a pretty crazy place, and you can tell that it has only had its independance for 16 years. I keep forgetting that it was a communist state for 50 odd years and before that it was under the rule of Nazi fascism and full of dictators and aristocracy and everything else you can think of. The government is still trying to work simple things out and basic needs [View Full Entry]

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