28 days without shaving and still going strong!



party on, party people.

I went to see a movie last night. it was nice and relaxing (once i sat down). we got lost on the way and couldnt seem to find the theater in the 3 story mall. stupid huge mall. and when we finally found it we had to go down a story to buy the stupid tickets (and wait in the enormous line). so not so good thus far. but the movie ticket (650Ft), the large popcorn (410Ft) and large drink (410Ft) only ended up costing us $6.50 USD. wonderful. especially since i had to make the popcorn my dinner. but it was good. not greasy at all like ours. anyway, we (john and i. we couldnt find anyone else) watched the movie Darkness, which i had never heard of, because it was in english. and it had magyarul subtitles so i could practice me reading skills. and for about 1hr 45min i felt almost at home. i was talking to todd about this and explaining that it's not that i'm having a bad time or anything, but i didnt really realize how much i kind of missed things. it's funny because i didnt anticipate noticing it that much. ah well. i cant ignore the fact that home is home for reason.

i had this dream last night that was interesting. and it was quite a notable dream because when i woke up i still remembered it. that never happens. actually, i woke up towards the end because i was so sad, and i knew that i had to remember it. i dreamt that i had just come back home from hungary and i was so happy to see everyone and we were all talking and having a good time, then i realized i hadnt gotten anyone anything or brought back anything cool or even any experiences. and i walked off and started crying because of this. (i'm sorry i dont have incredibly detailed dreams like everyone else; and if i do i dont remember those details, just ideas) man i was just really upset over this. so now i have to prevent this from happening. i dont think it will be a problem, but still. man, i was so happy when i woke up and realized where i was.

okay i'm going to go lift weights now.

okay so i had originally thought that my guestbook entries were genuine, but upon closer inspection (with the help of jeff) I'm leaning towards them being bogus. Ah well. it was cool while i thought they were real.

curse those terd spammers.

HOWEVER, on an AWESOME note: i went to this electronic pawn shop right next to my gyro heaven (after eating said heavenly gyros) to see if they had any cheap headphones in which i could remove the jack from and splice it to my good ones. after explaining my dilemma to the man (there are two but only one speaka the english. the other fixes stuff), he said they could repair it for me for 200Ft! Thats like $0.90! so i ran back to my room like the kid who found the golden ticket, grabbed my headphones and walked back (one can only run on excitement for so long) to the shop. i gave it o the guy and 15 minutes later they were as good as freakin new. "tubular," i exclaimed.

today i went to my timber structures class. when class started, there were 2 students in the class; i was one of them. then about 40 min late, 2 other guys showed up and then another about 10 min later (classes here are 1hr 45min long). It really pissed me off because: our teacher was this nice old lady (who said i was the first american, to her knowledge, to take this class. yeah me) and these come in halfway through class and they dont come in quietly and try to slip in, the walk in and are real nice to the teacher "good morning!" and so on, during her teaching. i'm not big on being strict on stuff like that, but this is just getting on my nerves. Even at home, i'm pretty sure people frown on others walking in halfway through class. i mean 5-15 min is one thing, but 45 mi? that's just being a faszfej.

oh and i didnt really run. phhh. duh.

figlio di puttana. it's been a great night. great.

first, i guess jesse still likes me (?), but it sort of doesnt seem that way. our recent conversations have been less than uplifting. we're talking about it now. i dont know.

and then no less than one hour ago i broke the freakin jack off my headphones. my ONLY headphones.

urge to kill . . . rising.

Unlike todd, i have all the time in the world. I have 2 classes on monday and tuesday, and 1 on wednesday and thursday. I am a machine. therefore, i must find stuff to occupy my time with. so thursday nights i go to choir. and other nights i work on my website and others i venture out. like last night. i went to this techno music place. it was a bit creepy at first because there was just this guy standing in front of everyone at an mac computer, mixing drum and bass/industrial music and everyone was just standing there. i felt like i was in a cult or something. Pretty weird. but it got better. the main guy came on (DJ /rupture (i think)) and he was pretty awesome. and finally people started dancing. but yeah, i dont know how often i'll return. man the bass was loud, which doesnt bother me at all. it's the trebble that gets me, so i'm going to have to bring earplugs with me from now on.



so yeah, i have to FIND things to do so that life here doesnt pass me by. So in a way, todd, you're lucky . . . yeah.

or something.

OH. i went to St. Stephens Basilica today. man what a church. insanely huge. even bigger than the burka's church! John and I went up to the top dome part and you could see all of the city in every direction. dont worry, i took pictures like they were going out of style.



i guess that's about it. my keys got locked in my room. and the guy who came to fix my internet today was drunk. and i think i have a phone number now. it may be 209-7289.

we'll see?

holy crap i'm HOOKED on gyros. i ate one for lunch and dinner today. they are so freaking awesome. i think it's the closest thing to a taco i'm going to find in this tacoless country. they have some chili sauce that goes on it that is wicked, but i've learned that it does a wicked number on my digestive system. so i must say nah on that. and i've mastered saying "no cucumbers or tomoatoes". "Nem uborka, nem paradicsom."

i rule so much.

well i guess i'm the only one blogging it up nowadays. therefore i now proclaim myself as the king of blogging.

suck that, scott.

oktoberfest anyone??



you better believe it!

so i dont know if i've said this before, but i absolutely get such a kick out of studying things with all of these international students. i was just looking around in today's folklore class at everyone's faces and it was just so great. it's funny because with a lot of them you can really tell where they're from. either from finland or germany or france or somewhere else. just being in the same location studying the same material or at least attending the same activity just gives me such joy.

i'm really glad to be here.

sunday we all we up to the castle in buda. it's pretty cool. it's funny, this french girl asked me why we use "pretty" to classify something as nice looking and also to replace the word "fairly" (or something) and i really didnt know. i thought about it for a while, but couldnt figure it out. anyway, the castle was a really cool place and you could see so much from up there.



and the castle was pretty great looking too





and all of this stuff in the city looks so cool at night. i just never remember to take my camera out when i go. i'll work on getting some of those.

the scenery here is just unbelievable. its almost overwhelming at times. unreal.

we stayed up there for a long time and several of the guys played hacky sack. i didnt. and then me and john...



decided to go back because we had the greasiest chinese food for lunch and it was still just sitting in our stomachs like a freakin lead weight. we chose this over the juggling festival that was going on. i'm not big into juggling. go figure.

oh and i now have a roommate, yudai (i think i'm spelling his name wrong). he's from iowa, but not originally (wink).



okay now i'm stupid tired, so i must sleep.

ta ta