Dear Lauren and my Readers in Eugene,
I also miss you all (y'all? :)).
I neglected to tell you about my last week in Eugene, the journey and my first week in Hungary in 2010; now, I shortly try to make up for being late. During the last week I had many tests and examinations at the AEI. Although all the results of my tests were around 95 percent, the final outcome was not so favourable because I missed the tests during the PIELC's week... and those zero-result decreased my grade.
On Friday, the ELAW staff organized a "bon voyage" lunch for me. We were sitting in the living room of the ELAW house and spent a pleasant hour together. In the afternoon, after the grammar test we had an "American Idol"-like show with my classmates and with our teacher. The Chinese guys as well as Robin sang for us in Chinese. One of my friends surprized us with his artistic talent when he showed a portait he had drawn of me... it was awesome...
On Saturday, I packed in ... baggage weighed.... overweight.... packed out and in again... overweight.... I weighed myself... overweight... doing excerscises.... giving up the packing until afternoon... I baked a cake (Bboci szelet) without real quark - it was replaced by something which was called quark (sour crem in real). In the evening my great classmates, Ai and JiYoung organized a dinner in the house of Ai's hostfamily. Cassie, the host-mother baked chicken-pie and sweet potato; and my friends ordered a tiramisu cake from the SweetLife with flowers.
The Saturday night was quite hard for me, I couldn't sleep because of the anxiety from the journey; and the night was shorter because the clock was changed. In the early morning I wrote in the ELAW-guestbook but I hardly ever remember what about....
In the morning, the guys arrived to the ELAW house at 5:30; and we were waiting for Robin, Ai and Ji Young. Although they were a little bit late, it didn't cause any inconvenience. They all escorted me to the airport and helped to check in and to convince the staff of the airport that my baggage didn't weigh more than 44lbs. They tried to discourage me from leaving Eugene and them :) but I was strong and said "good-bye" (or rather "see you later").
The travel was very exhausting again. I couldn't sleep at all on the airplane, but I slept twenty minutes at the airport in SFO... and in Frankfurt as well...
My mother and brother took me home from Budapest to Zirc. On Tuesday, I was sleeping so much like a baby. On Wednesday, I came back to Budapest and began to work.
My dear colleagues warmly welcomed me, the chocolate and the salt water taffy I brought them.
The little choir, which I am member of, seemed to be happy to meet me. On Thursday, we had our regular rehearsal. These weeks we are preparing for our coming performances at Easter.
tbc.
Agnes
