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Published: October 9th 2007
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Stalin's Feet
I realized after the last post that I talked about the feet of the Stalin statue but didn't post a picture. Whats up with that? Here they are for your viewing pleasure. Stalins SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I honestly am trying to post more often. I’m so busy and popular and lazy and stuff. Lusta Vagyok. You know? So!!!!!!! On Thursday I had another field trip with my art class. We went to this museum and saw a very disturbing display of art. Awkward. Or, in Magyarul, “gaz…”. But Friday? So cool! We went to the Rubik’s Cube world competition. We accidentally entered from the back and as a result we were able to watch the competition UP CLOSE. There was this room in which people were solving their cubes, blindfolded. As in, they would look at their cube, memorize what it would take to solve it, put on a blindfold and solve it. They were solving the 3x3x3 cubes, 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes. Then there were the CRAZY people who would memorize 12 cubes or so, then put on the blindfold and solve all of them in a row. It was madness. There was a Hungarian kid named Matyas who is currently like #1 in the entire world. We actually got to meet him and talk for awhile. At first he was all cranky cause he messed up a cube, but then when we ran into him
Japan Man
This is the group of us with the guy from Japan. I kind of look like I have been edited in, all pale and creepy like. I was really there, I promise. Lets see, from the left we have Vanessa, me, Irish, Japan Man, Zach in the back, Paige, Stacey and Eric. This Japan guy was CRAZY with the cubes. But pretty normal besides that I think. later he was much nicer. We also met this guy from Japan who is basically a HERO there. They were filming a documentary about him so they filmed us all talking to him. He said that he gets nervous before he begins, and that he likes doing rubik cubes, and that people in Japan think he’s way cool. We watched this guy solve 12 cubes blindfolded, he only messed up on two of them, and it was only one piece out of place on both of them. There was also a six-year-old kid from Japan. He was so very very cute. He was solving his pyramid cube in 8 seconds or so. We got to meet him later as well, he didn’t speak any English but who needs to when you can solve a Rubik’s Cube? All in all, over the course of the day we met the European overall champion, the European one-handed champion, the world champion, and a bunch of other crazy Rubik’s Cube people. P.s. the guy who invented the Rubik’s cube, Mr. Rubik, is actually from Hungary, he actually lives in Budapest, or at least he did when he invented it.
After the Rubik’s cube convention
Feet
When we went into the palace, they made us put on these shoe cozzy thingies to protect the floor. These are the most stylish shoes since bowling! Aren't our feet pretty? we headed home to celebrate my roommates birthday. It was a quiet affair with cake and guitar playing and just general hanging out. Such fun!
On Saturday I went to a flea market on the outskirt of the city. It was entertaining, there was lots of junk, but that was basically it. No more flea markets for Kristin!
Sunday however was a BLAST. Stacey, Paige, Darcy and I rode the train out to lake Balaton to hang out with Janos. The train ride was 3 hours, each way, but totally worth it. When we first arrived at the lake we attempted to get off the train. Turns out the first door we tried was locked, so we moved further back and tried the next door. This one was open, but before we could all get off the train started moving again. Darcy and Stacey were off the train, Paige was on the stairs and I was still on the train! So Paige jumped, missing a stair, and fell and then I had to jump. But, since I am so amazing I was able to land it. Actually I think this might be referred to as ‘dumb luck’. So, if you
6 Years old
This is the six year old rubiks kid. Isn't he cute? In this picture I kind of look creapy staring at him, I promise I'm not creapy. are planning on riding the train in Hungary, be prepared to exit before the train even stops, so when it does you have time to get off before it begins moving again! Anywho, Janos took us back to meet his mom and see Julie at their house and then we headed out on a day of adventure!
Our first stop was a palace that was so big and beautiful. We toured around there but no pictures were allowed inside, then we got to see a carriage museum that was in the old stable. After the palace we went to the ruins of an ancient castle. This involved lots of climbing but from the top there was a brilliant view of the lake. After the castle we went back to the house where Janos’ mom had prepared an amazing dinner for us. It was absolutely incredible. So good! After the amazing dinner we toured by this beautiful church and then unfortunately it was time to go. All in all, it was a really busy but really fun day.
I guess this past weekend wasn’t really as exciting to read about as it was to actually live through, but I’ve got pictures!
Littlest kid
This is a big screen showing a little kid. This kid looked to be about five years old. He was compeating. For real. I don't know if you can see it, but when he was sloving his cubes he would stick his tongue out. I wanted to put him in my pocket and take him home. So cute!!! Any questions? Feel free to comment! This coming weekend I am heading to Transylvania. If anything exciting happens before then, I will post before I leave, otherwise I won’t be back until late Monday. But in Transylvania they said I might get to milk a cow! How cool is that?! I just don’t want to wake up in the middle of the night with a vampire sucking my blood. You never know. It could happen!
Sziatok!!!
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So maybe you might get to milk a cow, but I got to flip sheep and tend to a beautiful horse named Riley. Plus I get to milk a cow...but I think that is in a couple of weeks.