It's been almost 2 and a half weeks since I've arrived in Budapest, Hungary for my semester abroad. Fortunately for you all I decided to start blogging about my experiences :)
Budapest has been an incredibly hard adjustment, I won't lie. It's super hot and humid, pretty damn loud, and very busy (living on the Pest side of the Danube river is more city life, compared to Buda which is very history and calm and beautiful). My apartment is next to a busy street with cars beeping and sirens go off left and right, but hey I always said I would like to live in Boston, this was a preview of it I suppose. So initially I was miserable here just the fact that I couldn't even get comfortable in the place I am going to be living in for 4 month, it was unsettling and I cried (quite frequently). I gave this city a very slim chance of acceptance and labeled it as a negative experience. In addition to this negative Nancy, I was extremely homesick. I wanted my bed back, my family back, my friends back, and definitely my boyfriend back. Summer is a hard time to leave everything, I wasn't at school, I wasn't in my independent mode. I was with my family and boyfriend almost every day this summer, and friends were just a short drive away. How can that possibly be easy to leave? It's such a comforting routine.
Anyways, putting 2 and a half weeks behind me I think it is safe to say I still get homesick but Budapest is growing on me and life here is getting more and more interesting every day.
The four months in Budapest will fly by pretty fast Jess. It will be a blur on the radar screen. Enjoy what you can, because you are only young once. What I wouldn't give to be young again and be in your shoes enjoying life and seeing other cultures and countries. You will be glad you did some day. Enjoy life and all it has too offer. Love you so much. Auntie Linda.
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