Mid November

Let me try to catch you all up on the week of November 3-9. Monday was class as usual, but Tuesday was Election Day in the States. Ladies and Gentlemen, I got to vote in my first Presidential election, while overseas. It was great; I request my Absentee Ballot while here and then mailed it in. I thought about turning it in to the U.S. Embassy here, but in the end, I chickened out and just mailed it. It was too intimidating for me, and yes, I realize that sounds a little ridiculous, but it is the truth. Well, anyways, on election day my professor and his wife had a party at their place from 12 am to 3 am. This is of course due to the time difference. Well, we didn’t really find out any results, but it was fun none the less and I learned more about the US election process because my professor is a Political Science prof. Wednesday, it was back to my prof’s house for our group dinners, Thursday wasn’t particularly interesting, and then it was Friday. My friend Breanna and I went to the Budapest Zoo! It was so cool and actually very large with a lot of animals. They had it set up like most zoos grouping animals from specific regions of the world together and even had a Hungarian farm setting with wild Hungarian dogs! After the zoo we went to a restaurant across the street called Robinsons for a late lunch. The restaurant was particularly cool because it was in city park and it floats in the pond there! It was really cool and in a very relaxing and enjoyable setting. After that we went to Gloria jeans for some coffee and then called it a day. Saturday, Bree and I hung out again and went to the Museum of Fine Arts. I had been there once before but did not get to check out the whole museum because it was a class trip for my art history class. So this time I got to check out an Egyptian exhibit and a Ferdinand Hodler exhibit. It was pretty cool, but the museum was so large that it was a bit of art overload, even for me. Then on Sunday our group was invited over to a family’s house for dinner. This was an American family that recently moved to Budapest because of the father’s job in the military; he is a fighter pilot. They have 2 girls, twins, who go to Calvin College, and in fact one of them was in my computer class and the other one lived on my floor freshman year, so I actually knew them a bit. Well, they had had us over earlier in the semester when their daughters were there, but they asked us over again, so we went and had chili for dinner. It was pretty cool to learn more about the family and all of their travels, and the chili was great as well.