The End of Orientation

Yesterday was the end of orientation for Val and I. We went to the various classes, we missed Hungarian because my back was causing me problems, and then everyone went out to the Bagolyvar (not sure if that's the spelling on that one) and it was really good. They have it set up so that you can order a "Menu" and they bring out different courses depending on the Menu you get.
When we fist walked in there was a guy playing the hammer dulcemer, which seems to be a popular thing in Hungary! It's very cool.

You can also see how nice the restaurant was in this video. Very swanky! The other night we also just stumbled upon St Istvan's Basillica. It was unbelievable. I can't get over how amazing the architecture is here. Budapest is truly a hidden gem of a city!

This was walking towards the basillica.

I love the very artistic lighting on it. It adds to the dramatic ambiance and made for a beautiful scene.

Anyways, skip ahead to the present. We are currently sitting in the computer room waiting to meet our contact teacher for our school. We shook hands with her and she seems incredibly nice. Val and I are both scared and excited to see our school, apartment, and potentially our boss and coworkers. This will probably be the last time that we'll be able to easily access the internet until we get it in our apartment so there should be many long posts to come about the first day of school and about the continuing saga of our lives.

(On a side note: I suck at spelling so if you see a typo know that I can't spell check because the computer thinks that I spelled everything wrong in Hungarian)

Gellerthegy and a Hungarian Speaking English

So we finally figured out how to pull out money. Thank God!!! We paid the rest of our money that we needed to and we're now debt free. Hurray! So the other day we climbed up Gellert Hill and took some video.

It was pretty tough but the view was worth it! This was mostly at the top. We didn't go ALL the way up but that will be an adventure for another time.

And finally for a little something extra, this is Maria, one of the instructors, speaking english. This gives you an idea of what the Hungarian accent sounds like!

The audio is pretty quiet but you can still kind of hear her : /.

Last night we had some pretty awesome experiences though. We showed some people the movie "Kontroll" and we also hung out in front of the hotel with some people and that was pretty fun as well. We and Val also drew some monsters. I'll be sure to post them! O_o

That's all for now! I haven't been carrying around my camera for some bizarre reason so my future posts will have much more interesting things in them!