Blogs from Szeged, Southern Great Plain, Hungary, Europe

So, here I am, home sweet home, Szeged 4 weeks before the Big Trip. Kicking it off with a hen party, limo-champagne, 15 girls hitting the dance floor and the bottom of the Jager shot glasses. It was just like "my sweet sixteen", apart from the fact that we are like...Oh wait, never mind. The following week, one more Hep A+B injection and a wedding with more Jager than ever. Obviously, not the Jager injection - but considering how bit the hangover was you never know what was in that injection.. Lol. More and more running around, parties, girls nights out and friend's baby's visits and than fate decided to keep the best for last. Lets go back to the wedding: happy times, Hungarian folk music and a bit of shot-after-effect, toilet and a flying camera ... read more

Sorry it's been so long since I updated. Internet and traveling got in the way. And anyway, we all knew this would happen. So, picking up from where I left off, I went from Pecs to Szeged and met my host there. He was really nice but had to leave the next day so we did a quick tour of town, had a nice dinner and just hung out. Some of his stories were fascinating in a ˝Your life is like a soap opera and I'm glad I'm not you˝kinda way. The next day, I wandered around Szeged after a late start since it was raining in the morning. It's not that big and I tried to see as much as I could in the rain but really, walking around soaked is not fun. It's kinda ... read more

My uncle took me to the zoo the other day. You'll see some pictures of animals I posted. I had trouble sleeping for a few nights. Helping my mom pack, then New Years, then staying up playing Pratrician II. Yesterday I slept a total of about 18 hours! I also got a good night's sleep last night. Love Yall, Daniel... read more

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 a week. i will probably add to this great list, but this is the beginnings... -go on a cleanse. as much as i miss the great canadian food, i will give it up for a ... read more

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 proved the great diversity and usefulness of peanut butter by using the container as my rolling pin. It worked even if Gabi gave me the wierdest looks when she walked by and saw me up ... read more

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 brandy type drink here that everyone drinks-its brutal)! I couldnt believe it, shows how seriously they take the 'no drinking' rule. The Rotarians of course offered us a libation, so i had a glass of ... read more