No free time!!!

Let me recap the two weeks for you - hopefully there will be stories to come, but for right now I just want to provide an excuse for my lack of updates.

March 12 - hanging out with Emily E. (volunteer in Slovakia) and her friend from home.
March 13 - interviews for Hungarians hoping to go to the USA and Italy
March 14 - saw Spamalot in the Madach Theatre with my 'host family'
March 15 - Hungarian National Holiday (like our July 4) - went to the Budapest Fine Arts Museum for free :) where I saw Monet's "White Water Lillies" in person!!! wow.
March 16 - went to work and then went and helped the Otterness' clean before they left.
March 17 - cooked a delicious breakfast for the Otterness', worked and then headed to Gönc and visited the dentist, came back to find our flat had more than doubled in occupancy and on top of that, because we're in the city center, everyone made our place the 'pre-party party' for St. Patrick's Day.
March 18-19 - Roma-Gadje Dialog Through Service initiative Seminar in Magyarkút, then Katharine arrived from Japan on Friday.
March 20-21 - we visited Nyírtelek and Görögszállás (where Jeff lives and works)
March 22-23 - sightseeing in Budapest
March 24 - deliver Katharine to the airport and catch up on sleep
and the last two days have been filled with work and other random extracurricular activities...

it doesn't look like things are getting any quieter, but hopefully I'll have time to write another message to you soon.

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I recently got a wonderful gift from Home Acres Church. Inside of it was SOOO MUCH PEANUT BUTTER! it was so amazing! This is Silvia showing her smiling appreciation for the American wonder food :)


the best part about going to the dentist? this discovery: házi túro rétes (homemade sweet cheese pastry)


Apparently this is what you do when you see a political poster you don't like. :P Elections soon! April 11!


We (Jeff, Katharine and I) were in Jeff's town (Nyírtelek), when his pastor's daughter told us about a concert that she'd be performing in Budapest and invited us to go. Turns out to be 3 Japanese women choirs (funny since Katharine was in town from Japan) and 1 Hungarian girls choir. It was really cool - this is all of them come together for the final 2 songs.


two posts in a row with pictures of the escalators! and srsly, they are one of the first things people that fly to Budapest see, so it's always funny to see their reactions. Pictures really cannot describe how high/deep they are... but I try.