It’s already been more than one month since I left the Netherlands. Even though I was very much looking forward to studying in Israel, leaving was hard. Most of all of course because I had to say goodbye to my boyfriend Markus, but also because during the last three years I got very attached to living in the Netherlands. Before starting the Ulpan (Modern Hebrew language course) in Jerusalem, I made a one week long stopover in Budapest (luckily, Malév is one of the cheapest airlines for getting from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv) in order to visit friends, to meet my sister Mirjam who came for a few days, and to brush up on my rusty Hungarian. After the first hour, which Mirjam and I spent trying to find our way through the night bus system
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