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Marco Tells Us About His Break! January 4, 2005 |
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Where to begin,
well my Christmas was great, my host family
had invited many guests and in total we were 13 people, everybody
received many gifts, and there was a great dinner with all sorts of
different dishes, the most "exotic dish" I found so far is
jello soup, where the meat and carrots are suspended in a gelatinous
matter that has no color, and you eat it cold, I tried it and it
wasnt too bad, but not something I would be eating often. Over the
break I invited some of my friends from the rotary club since i am
the only one in Pécs, and the closest one to me lives in
Budapest!!!!!!!!!! I showed them around the city and later we went
up to Budapest which is about two hours and 45 minutes away on an
intercity train, for a ticket that costs about five dollars! we and
some other exchangees met and went together bowling at "Mammut"
which is a big mall in Budapest.
Unfortunately since the Hungarian Rotary Club
is rather unorganized, they were having problems so the trip to Vienna
was cancelled.
There was a get together for all the rotary
students in szolnok where Lloyd, the South African decided to host a
party for the new year, it was a lot of fun and its always great to
see my friends because i live so far away from all of them, we all
ate goulash for dinner and it tasted great.
Since I am the only Rotary student in Pécs a
lot of host families would like to host me for some time, I've
already changed once and soon I might change again because they
might want to split this quarter in half, the funny thing is that my
next host family lives across the street, right in front of this
house!
At the end of the month I will go skiing in
France with my first host brother and a bunch of his friends, it
will be the first time I go skiing so i will have to get lessons
while I'm there, but other than that I am really looking forward to
going.
I have made such good friends with the
inbounds, much more than I could ever believe, and the sad thing is
that most of them live so far away from me
that I dont think I will ever be able to see
them again.
I can feel my hungarian is coming along just
fine, a bit slowly but I notice the improvements.
School started for me yesterday on the 3rd,
its horrible! I dont feel like going! on the 8th I will be playing
at the new year's concert at my school and my whole rotary club of
my city will be there! I'm just a little worried!
I miss the warm weather and definitely the
beach! but I want to enjoy every moment that I have here in this
beautiful country.
write to you all soon!
ciao!
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