The Speaking Test!!!

This has been the craziest week that Val and I have experienced yet! It seems that everything is falling on the same days. For instance, this week we had everything happen! The new teachers from CETP arrived this week and we stopped by to say hi, My kids had a practice speaking test (That they all did great on!) and Val and I started our Hungarian lessons this week as well! It has been crazy, but mainly exciting!

To everyone that I haven't talked to on Skype, sorry about that. This week has been absolutely packed with things and I've had a hard time managing all of it.

A Bufe (No Accents)

This was the bufe that we ate at for lunch today. It was ok. Well.... the hotdogs were pretty good and the soup stuff that we had. The only thing that was bad was the yellow stuff. I don't know what it was but it tasted like rye bread..... and I hate rye bread. It was a fun experience, nontheless, and I got the chance to speak some hungarian with some of our colleagues. Lessons seem to be going a lot smoother already. This is great news for both Val and I considering how freaked out about teaching we were.

On a personal life note, we went out with some friends last night. It was really fun and it looks like it will be a normal occurence. We also looked into a school for Hungarian but they told us that it would be pretty pricey (50,000 forints) and that they didn't have a Hungarian teacher at the moment but would let us know when they did..... No thanks.

On a hungarian note, does anyone know how to make the accents on an english keyboard. I wound like to actually spell things correctly!

In The Weeds

Today was a pretty intense day for our volunteer teaching. The kids were all TOTALLY out of control. When I was working with my kids I thought I was the only one but when I looked up the other kids seemed to be just as far as mine were in the activity book. This actually helped me focus again and realize that it wasn't just me. It also didn't help that the substitute yesterday was apparently very mean and didn't get ANY of the kids up to the point where they were supposed to be in the activity book. Every kid was behind and this made it even harder for them all to finish. Only a small handful of kids were able to finish to the point where they were supposed to be and even the ones who were were focused barely managed to finish in time. I also had the unfortunate privelege of having 3 kids that are supposed to be seperated from one another to prevent problems. Seperated, they are actually quite good but together it causes quite a few problems. However, I got through it and now it's time to relax.