private students

most hungarian english teachers take on a few private students for some extra cash. since i want to be hungarian while i'm here, plus i'm really good at conversation, i took on a few, too. one of my private lessons is with two hilarious, smart, and sweet girls: brigi and málna. they are too cool for school... well, too cool for my school anyway. they go to some other school and have both taken intensive english lessons at a language school. anyway, we get to sit and talk for 90 minutes once a week - i can't believe i get paid for that.

here they are (i hope i choose the right pictures of them - they seemed concerned):

this is málna ... her name means raspberry, but i just call her málna.

this is brigi (left) and málna (right)... brigi probably just means bridget.some excerpts from our last lesson:
RE: halloween
me - what do you know about halloween?
them -... and the children go from house to house saying... uh... chocolate or cheating?
me - (laughing hysterically) what?!
brigi - when i watched friends that's how it was translated
me - (contining to laugh hysterically)
brigi - what?
me - (laughing still so i write "trick or treat" on the board)
málna - just looks confused, watches me write, copies what i wrote on the board into her notebook
me - this is going in my blog

we also played taboo for a bit (in taboo the point is to make the other person say a certain word. there are words which are "taboo" so you cannot use them as a clue for your word)

brigi - when you go into a building which is used for religious things, you can hear some ... tones... which are caused by a thing which i cannot say and the person causing the tones is the...
málna - (confused but poised with her pencil to write down the new word)
me - (stealing a point from the surprisingly competitive girls) organist! (laugh, laugh, laugh)

brigi - it's the animal on the logo of WWF
me - confused, very very confused
málna - PANDA!
brigi - yes!
me - what the...

we also talked about frosting, platform shoes, staples and staplers, VHS, and VCRs. a well-rounded day, i thought.