a rainy weekend

it was so cold and rainy this weekend that i basically did nothing all day everyday. sad, but that's ok. it's always good to have some down time. i took some pictures of the money because... why not.




the paper ones are handy. here are the conversion rates: 200 ft = $1.30
500 ft = $3.20, 1000 ft = $6.40, 2000 ft = $12.80... there are also 5000 and 10000 forint paper bills... but i am poor and don't have one of those. there may be higher denominations, but none i'll ever see!
the coins are pretty useless except the 100 forint ones (the gold and silver in one coins). the others are just as useless (to me) as american coins are. but they're everywhere.


my OTHER sister sent me 2 care packages!!! i got them the other day at school and i was so happy!!! (incidentally, they were bound with strong plastic binding so i needed scissors. i asked a colleague for some... in HUNGARIAN! she understood me quite easily and i started dancing around. not only did i remember the word for "scissors" but in hungarian when something is the direct object you need to add a "t" to the end of the word. in my sentence i even remembered the T!! i said, "kerem egy oloT." and i got scissorssssssss!! woo hoo!)
anyway, in the packages were games (for my classes!!) hand towels - which are proudly displayed in the bathroom, one of which was used to dry off xander from his first hungarian bath yesterday, a toy xander left in america, some kleenex - not nasty rough face tissues like they have here, some over-the-door hooks - to hang towels on, some GUM!, a few other things and most importantly: macaroni and cheese!!




WE LOVE YOU, LIZ!! THANKS FOR THINKING OF US!!!