http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/JessicaDawn/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from JessicaDawn en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:00:12 +0000 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:00:12 +0000 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 loo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-146346.html 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 donot do all of t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-152942.html 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 wit http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-117385.html 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 sai http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-101096.html 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 storiesSo 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 t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-97834.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-92882.html 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 Althoug http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-89096.html 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 entertai http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-87315.html 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 cours http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-86186.html 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 fas http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-85325.html Alright ladies and gents here is the lowdown on Hungary everything is minisized like cars dishwashers bedsIyes thats right Jessica Weberhas to sleep diagonally in order to fit comfortably in bedactually I just checked and it is a futon I doubt thats spelt right ANYWAYS minisized roadsso tiny and windyfurnitureexcept that which is an antique such as most of the stuff http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Hungary/Southern-Great-Plain/Szeged/blog-84652.html