Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The final days of an experience of a lifetime!

And as the title clearly says, i'm in my last few days here and it's so hard to believe.

Bittersweet moment is the best word for this. So instead of a few paragraphs I made a list of things I'll miss and not miss... (inspired by my cousin jacob)

What I will miss from Budapest
1. A store with what you need is right around the corner
2. Bars, Clubs, pubs
3. Cheap but tasty drinks
4. The people i met here (aside from UNH)
5. Gyros
6. capability to travel so frequently
7. my apartment/ and roomie :)
8. homeless man 1, and homeless man 2 (aka One leg Greg)
9. international classes
10. The language
11. Chicken paprika
12. Walking around in the beauty of Budapest every single day

What I will not miss from Budapest
1. Little dog who yipps not barks (all day long)
2. Poverty levels and visuals here (won't go into detail)
3. corporate finance
4. Not being able to communicate what you need.
5. our washer withthe spin cycle of an airplane jet

Hanging around the city

I had my dear friend Kimberly come visit me in mid november which was a blast. Having one of your best friends here is unreal! This whole time I kept saying to myself "Damn, me and my girls would have way too much fun hear!" we would go crazy. So basically that's what I finally got to do!

I gave the usual tour and took her to our favorite bars and clubs. She ha a lot of fun and really enjoyed budapest and vienna (took her there since its an easy 3hr trip).

Christmas markets were everywhere so luckily she was here and had an a easy time finding souvenirs.

Other than that school got extremely busy. They LOVE group projects in an international school (obviously) so it was fun keep up with 5 different projects with 5 different nationalities. But, at the same time, it was really great meeting them and having a class with so many different opinions and outlooks on the subject (as opposed to the arrogant UNH honor roll students chiming in every few seconds back at home)

We, of course, took advantage of our weekends during the last few weeks here. We really really needed to relieve all that stress!

Prague, Czech Republic

After the weekend in France with my parents I headed off to Prague with Caitlin and Hannah. It's about a 7 hour train ride, not so fun but way better than a 7 hour flight.

Prague was incredible, every time I visit another city or country I immediately see myself coming back in the future, it was just that great of a place to be!

The cobble stoned streets, colorful apartments/building aligning the streets, everyone out and about on the streets. What I liked most was that it wasn't all city life there, there was a lot more GREEN here than in budapest, so that was so nice to see especially cause it was fall time when we went.

At night was went to this great restaurant and had something we found out to be "milk beer" or to them "Mleko Beer" a lot of locals drink it. And it was delicious, it's a darker beer and its 3/4 foam from the beer, and you're supposed to chug, and it was so smooth and easy to chug and a lot of fun. All of us couldn't chug the whole mug but it was worth a shot for three 20 yr old girls! Here's what it looks like.

After we went to this place called the Beer Museum and found out it had 30 beers on tap! I tried a blueberry beer (my personal favorite), a cherry beer, honey brewed beer, and some kind of darker beer. All were extremely delicious!

So then we went back to our hostel and set the alarm early enough to get a head start. We were told to go to this breakfast place called Bohemia Bagels. Heaven was back on earth! We missed bagels and cream cheese and bacon egg cheese sandwiches, oh man were we happy walking out of that place.

We got a lot, pretty much ALL, of our sight seeing done in one day, we saw the astronomical clock
 very cool to see, there was a man up top sounding the trumpets, and tons of people were gathered around.

Also they had their version/imitation of the eiffel tower which was strange!

Here are some of the highlights of the trip, pictures tell it all! It was worth every freezing second spent outside!