lately

this week i attended a party for a kid i don't know who passed an advanced english exam. he studied in a language school for several years with my little brigi and ma'lna. so they were going to the party, as well as agi (who was their language school english teacher). it had an "english" theme so it was at a teahouse. oh, i mean english, like british english, not just english the language. in theory we were all gonna speak english and have a lovely time. in reality, i'd say it was 95% hungarian. eh, no big deal. after all, it is hungary.

i ordered warm apple tea, or something like that. and this is how it came! that little bowl is sugar crystals, i think it was infused with some kind of other flavor. a few times i saw a certain hungarian eating her sugar right out of the bowl with her little spoon. she may even have taken a spoonfull of some other hungarian's sugar when he wasn't looking. just maybe.

here is the group. i talked with the crouching guy, zsolt, most out of all the kids. of course agi would translate important things for me. she really couldn't be any sweeter. it's impossible.

this was zsolt's tea. some argentinian "mate" tea. whatev, it was such a cool presentation.

agi brought along scotland yard (the boardgame) so the guys played it most of the time. i played a round too. i didn't find it interesting, but at least when i played they spoke a tad more english.


brigi and ma'lna and i still have lessons every tuesday. we have a book now, which means homework. sad. i don't have the teacher's edition (YET!) so it really makes me feel dumb when i don't know all the terms for english things (phrasal verbs, connectors, etc.). i'm looking into getting the book fast... so i can at least tell them if they did the assignments right.

uh, could we BE any cuter?

and why shouldn't we have a photoshoot in our private lesson!?
brigi, me, ma'lna

i went to dinner at a mexican restaurant with a private-student-turned-friend the other night. i've now been to this place three times. but when i asked a coworker for a suggestion of where to eat she told me some hungarian name. turns out it USED to be called that, but it was recently renovated and is now las palmas, the place i had already been. whatever, oh well. it's good food.

we shared some chicken tacos, salad, and rice. pretty mexican mexican food, for hungary.

(i look retarded, sorry)

i ordered some summery drink, which wasn't all that great, but we shared.

fondue! look how pretty! well, it was sooooo delish. chocolate can't miss.

in other news, the mex restaurant across the street from my house has been closed for like 3 weeks. someone mentioned to me that it closed down permanently; bankruptcy. well, i was so sad since it's good, inexpensive, and so close. then, out of the blue it opened this week! i heard the music and saw the lights from my window. the place has been packed all week. i went back too and got something to go, mostly because i want to patronize the place and keep it open. so did everyone else, i guess. i saw one of my students and her parents there. i introduced myself to them and told them their daughter is cool. well, she is. and so is "mexicana."