One Month!

Szia!!

I cannot believe that it has been one month already! It's insane!! The first two weeks of my exchange went so incredibly slowly. It felt like two months, but after that it has gone so fast. I have just gotten back from a one glorious week of skiing in the Austrian Alps. Me, Maddy and Huani set off to Austria, early Wednesday morning. Twas a gloomy day, rain, but we were so excited to go skiing. After a boring car ride we got to the town of Mitterbach. It was such a small, cute town. But it looked dead. I mean zombies could have eaten this town and no one would know. We decided to explore the town and found nothing, we found this pub/cafe thing near our house and the guy spoke english and when we asked him if there was any shops in the town he said no!! NO SHOPS! How strange! Any way I found out that I am pretty much a disgrace to the private school system, four years of German, amounted to nothing. NOTHING AT ALL! All I knew to say was 'sprecken die english?'. It was embarrassing to say the least.

Skiing was heaps of fun! But I will tell you the funnest and most interesting parts. So, on our first day skiing, we went to the next town over, Marizell, it was bigger that Mitterbach, actually had shops and people under the age of 70. Maddy is an incredible skier and I am not. So on some of the slopes we invented this thing called the Koala Bear, which is when I hold on to Maddy and we ski down together, it was lots of fun, I looked like a retarded fool, but it was fun! Any way we were Koala Bearing it down when we came to a fork, a red run or a blue run, I chose the blue run, so we were skiing down when Maddy stops and says 'where are we? We are following an abandoned chair lift' So we took off our skis and went into this forrest area, hoping it would take us back to the red run. It did not, and after a while I was puffing and sweating like a pig so I refused to walk more unless we had a plan. We then saw the 'abandoned ski lift' working so we decided to continue down the hill. When we got to the bottom we were in downtown Marizell, NO WHERE near the ski hill. We started freaking out and shouting 'HELLO! SPRECKEN DIE ENGLISH?' to people walking past, but everyone avoided us like the plague! We had no idea where we were, no one spoke english, and none of our phones worked. We walked around downtown Marizell, in full ski gear and found the ski lift!! After broken english we quickly got on! and were finally on our way back after a freaky incident.

The second funny/not so funny incident occurred on the last day of skiing. Maddy and I were on a hill, and she was teaching me to ski down this steep bad boy of a hill, and I fell, so as I was getting back up she was standing next to me documenting my humiliation, when out of nowhere this crazy ass snowboarder comes flying through the air and hits Maddy at full speed! They roll down a bit and when they untangled Maddy's knee was really hurt! Luckily our friends were behind us so the went to get help. Every one was very nice and people stopped to see if we were ok. Then this ski paramedic came, just by coincidence, and even though his english was limited he called people. By this time Tibor (our guide/cool rotarian) came and we skied down to get Maddy's passport etc. We waited at the bottom of the hill for her and when she came down, they had her strapped to this stretcher thing, she looked dead! It was hilarious! any way they propped her on this foam seat thing while they were waiting for the ambulance and the HOTTESTski paramedic guy was there. OMG SO SEXY!!! beautiful, peircing blue eyes and blond hair, SPLC boarders he looked like a hotter austin!!! And he was chatting to Maddy and I and when I said I was from Australia I got a 'OH WOW Australia!' and maddy only got a 'oh cool, Canada'. So I milked the Australia thing! He was so hot... unbelievable. So the ambulance came and there was a hot ambulance guy too which was good! Maddy had to get a cast, although nothing was broken, they didn't have a special x-ray at the hospital, so she's going to have to go to hospital in Kecskemet.

That was in a nutshell my week! It was so much fun and there will be so much more to write about!! And it's getting into spring now, which is in translation an Australian Winter now!! Its weird!

XXXXXXX Miss you Australia

Update!!

So, I have no idea how long it has been since I last wrote but i'm sure things have happened to me. Day to day life is becoming a sort of ritual, I don't know the right word for it, but i'm getting used to it and it's all starting to normalise for me!

Hungarian food, is very yummy but it has so many carbs that I am pretty sure I will be needing two seats when I come home! It's ridiculous!! The past couple of nights I have been woken up early because the house diagonal from mine has SIX dogs, SIX!! I am pretty sure its illegal! haha. Any way they look like huge chiuwauwas (I have no idea how to spell that!) and there is six of them and they bark really early in the morning!!!! SO ANNOYING! However I suppose I am getting used to it.

Oh and the other day it was raining! I have no idea why i found this so entertaining but it was. I was walking back from the bus stop to my house and it was sprinkling I suppose and it felt as if someone was slapping me on the face with ice cold water. IT HURT!!! but i found it entertaining and was all excited because it was not -8 degrees and that it was 1 degree. You really begin to realise that you have gotten used to the cold when you get excited when its 1 degree! I have gone crazy. The snow is fun and nice but after a while i hate it because it gets all dirty and slushy, and slippery and its not nice to walk in, and when it was raining a lot of the ice and snow melted which created huge puddles which I was forever scared of, because I kept having these horrible thoughts of a car driving past and me getting splashed in icy, muddy water. These past couple of days have been warmer, but one day was really foggy and it was so creepy because it looked like a ghost town!

On Friday I had my first Hungarian party! It was heaps of fun! Me and Liza went to a pub before hand and met a couple of our classmates and we had heaps of fun while waiting for the club to open! Of course since I am a rotary student there was no drinking, cos I am totally a good girl! We headed down to the club at around 11:30 and got in and at first it was a little dead but luckily it picked up when this band came on stage, the lead singer actually looked like Nick from the Backstreet Boys but i thought the one playing the guitar was hottie! So obviously I had a great time while they were playing, I made my boarding girls happy by being seedy! haha. And after that we danced the night away, well not really because i got tired and we went home at 1:30, I felt like a real party pooper! but my bed awaited!

So that is it so far! And hopefully I will be going skiing in Austria at the end of this month! YAY!!

Lots of love xxxxx

First Few Weeks!

Hello! Sziasztok from Hungary!!

So, this is my third week in Hungary and I am still freezing my willy off!! It's not too bad but I am just extremely wimpy! I am living in a town called Kecskemet which is about an hour from Budapest, it is a really beautiful town and when it snows it looks like a christmas card or the inside of a snow globe!

Anywho, my journey to Hungary was an epic, long adventure, which involved me being on a plane for almost 24 hours, but nonetheless me and my fellow future Hungarian Maddie Nunn, arrived in Budapest safely on 23rd of January. It was such a shock looking out the window on the plane and seeing snow, at first i though it was barren land, and thought to myself "great, they have all been lying to me, Hungary really isn't as pretty as they say it is!" but fear not, as i got off the plane I realised that the 'barren land' was actually heaps and heaps of oh so glorious snow!! So beautiful compared to Brisbane (sorry, but it is). My host family greeted me and off we went to the beautiful town of Kecskemet!

So as I was a bit of a nong and didn't actually prepare my self of -15 or less degrees, the next day we had to go out shopping. Now I know that i am not the skinniest person around but in Australia my size was mainly a medium, so I come to Hungary expecting the same, thinking "it can't be too different" WRONG! SO WRONG! I am a whale in Hungary, seriously, I was in shock, I felt like Jabba the Hut trying on my XXL turtle neck, yes you read right XXL! Ghastly! So once i got over this atrocity I began looking for some clothes I would like. And there was my next problem, Hungarian fashion, is nothing like sweet beautiful Australian fashion. The amount of Euro trash girls I saw, and the amount of weird clothes I saw were BAD!!! But luckily I quickly found which shops suited my taste (just suited). And after that adventure the next day I had School!

In Hungary they do not have a uniform, so it means free dress, now as a girl who cares about how I look, I was nervous, but I said to myself that it can't be too bad, its only school, no one will care what they look like too much. WRONG AGAIN! I get to school and I am faced with girls who are wearing stiletto heels and insanely massive amounts of make up on their faces. And let me remind you that they are wearing these heels in the snow and ice, and ice is everywhere, I pretty much am almost falling all the time, do not know how these crazy hungarians do it! However, Hungarians are like the nicest people ever! I soon had made friends and everyone stared at me because I am 'black' ahaha and because I was new, but I was immensely surprised at how friendly everyone was!

I continued to go to school and I met the other exchange students and the first weekend here they had a Rotary Ball, with floor length gowns, which I had none of! so yet again mushi was cast out and had to improvise and thankfully Maddy from Canada had a dress for me! So I will fast forward to last weekend, which was when all the Rotary exchange student met in Budapest to give speeches on their country to outgoing students and parents! Normally the exchange students would give their speech in Hungarian, but considering Maddie and I had only been in this foreign land for two weeks, we were allowed to speak in english. The speech went swimmingly we sold Australia and how good it was better than anyone (even Lara Bingle with her bikini), and to top it all off we sang the national anthem severely out of tune with dance moves to every word, it was embarrassing but heaps and heaps of fun!

So This is it for now, i will update this bad boy as often as possible since I have ample amounts of time to waste because all i do is sleep or learn hungarian at school!

Sziasztok!! Lots of Love Mushi/Mish xoxoxoxoxoxooxox