the first three days

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The post that was started is now going to be used by all Queen's Budapest students! This is a very exciting turn of events!

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hello all and welcome to blog "Budapest 2009". i create it specifically with primary intention of communicate to friends and family near home (maybe abroad) what happen to me/what i want happen to me/ and the happy or sad things that happen lately. maybe you see that speaking is difficult for me now. hungary is a sad place with a sad language... it makes me speak like them to me in english. very much a bad language, make mouth and lips and tongue go crazy in face. to example, i go to Central Market yesterday to buy meat (100g) and bread for cheap lunch (130 HUF ~ .73 CAD) which was tasty but lady at meat counter can only smile. force me to grunt and point like ape (i forget all hygienation exercises at home make me smell and look like orangutaun). a man communicated what I want and then small strange man start made funny noises with face. he try to say something but i no make sense. forget all nice things i ran away before he eat me.



in other facts of long trip to date: i now have place to live under permanence. homies and me find mostly good price (250 euro ~ $405 CAD) two storey flat in Buda (address for those who like to send nice things to me in mail like smiles and poutine write me at: 1012 Budapest, Kuny Domokos utca 3-5-7. 5/2. Hungary). i will post when picture box unbraken. i steal internet from man named DePaul. download Hot N Cold Katy Perry. i love. he may not like.



other students seem nice because not hungarian.



hungary battle france last night for handball champion of worlds. i did not know handball was sport. seems very odd. like soccer/basketball/hockey for children but man plays for country. hungary get killed (27-22) that made me smile.



plane ride nice. watch Little Miss Sunshine and cried. why creepy grandpa in trunk? sleeping? then i laugh because he dead. funny movie. i ate 4 ham sandwiches and they stole rye mickey.



young ladies i travel with are nice. they found flat which much pretty than mine. better location. pretty furniture. same rent. smells like flowers.



beer is cheap (255 HUF for pint Sporani which tastes like Alexander Keith's ~ $1.42 CAD). Burger King everywhere (9:30am CET: Whopper meal w/ fries and Coke 1200 HUF ~ $6.70 CAD). no beer for breakfast yet. good cheap food everywhere. rent car for pennies. drive near cliffs for ski lift and jump. warm weather here. all rain but no snow.



gym near flat help me stay strong and in shape getting fat from beer and sad and happy times eating lose breath up stairs during journey. toilet has ledge for piles.



bars are smoky and clothes smell gross like cigarettes and nicotine. hungary flat has 2-in-1 washing/drying machine. shocked face! why no such invention in Canada? land of free? land of house with useless appliance.



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All joking aside, Budapest is a very pretty city. I was surprised by the amount of graffiti but other than that the city is kept pretty clean. The student organization that runs the exchange program is doing a very good job. My tandem partner, Laci, met Laura, Alana, Devon and I at the airport and proceeded to arrange our taxi, take us to lunch, take us on a tour of the university, the Central Market, the metro system, he set us up with cell phones (not me because I'm not sure I need one, I'll probably cave tomorrow and buy one anyways), and tried to teach us how to speak Hungarian. It really is a troubling language. Its impossible to make anything of it. for example, fruit is Gyolomocls but add a bunch of dots and accents on the o's to make it more absurd. I feel like whoever developed this language wasn't very logical.



Everyone should get Skype and add michael.melito as a contact. Then we can chat in my bedroom ;)



Our landlord is a really nice guy and our flat is really nice in a nice part of town. It doesn't have many extra things as far as furniture goes but its pretty well equipped. I didn't realize how big the exchange program is at the University. They apparently have 700 students each year from abroad. Last night I went out with a couple Spaniards, a Dutch, a Swede, a Frenchy, and a Hungarian girl who was dating the Swede. Pretty crazy. Already my legs are sore from walking all over town. I bought a metro pass for a month for 3500 forint ~ $19.42 Canadian and it takes us everywhere.



I'm going to set up my camera and take a bunch of shots and add sweet things to this blog because I'm having fun with it. For now I am going for a run with the guys up Gellert Hill to the Freedom Statue overlooking the Pest side of the city.