Thursday, November 19, 2009

weekend shenanigans

this weekend i met up with some lektors in my town. tara came from her village a few towns over, kim - a new lektor fresh from teaching in hong kong and japan- came over from her slightly larger village, sean, a teacher in debrecen-a decent sized city about 45 minutes away made the train ride, and andrew, another lektor in nyiregyhaza, walked into town.

we stopped off at a brick oven pizzeria to get some delicious chow. while i didn't take pictures of our yummy broccoli, chicken, and corn pizza, i did snap a shot of the baggies our silverware came in. it says 'bon apetit' in hungarian, something you can never start a meal around here without saying. look how cute the little pizza man is.
we talked a bit, getting to know each other, ordered some diet cokes and ate. soon the boys left to go take their stuff home, so the girls headed to a cafe for dessert and more talking.
we had some cakes, sweets, and tara treated herself to some hot white chocolate. yum!


then sweet kim had to leave to go to her school's ball (mine is this weekend!), so tara, sean, andrew and i headed further into town to the ice skating rink. it's open from november to march, so we had to squeeze in at least one trip there.

after paying, renting skates, putting them on, and putting our stuff at the coat/purse check, we were ready. tara and me, that is. the boys couldn't be bothered to ice skate, though that had been the plan since before we met. oh well, we were off. after a lap or two i noticed my friends eszter and annamari making their way around the rink. soon i joined them, as it was eszter's first time (and annamari's second!). skating, like many other things, is more fun with kids.

tara, eszter, and me
boys who couldn't be bothered (andrew and sean) :)
me, eszter, and annamari- bundled up and having funwe went out for some drinks and more chatting. tara spent the night and left in the morning. sunday afternoon i went over to eszter and annamari's house to play in english. we read some books, played in her tent, watched some youtube cartoons, and had dinner. they're such fun.

4 comments:

Ashlee said...

youtube cartoons! too much fun!

Anonymous said...

please record more of you reading to her. Thank you!

Giant Sis said...

hey - i recognize the light fixture at the cafe! that's where WE went for hot cocoa - that was more like chocolate pudding sludge because we ordered it without whipped cream and apparently that meant NO cream at all!

Christie said...

it is! that's the ONLY place i've ever had such thick weird pudding hot chocolate. but the hot white chocolate was normal... go figure. annnnd the regular hot chocolate comes like pudding with or without whipped cream, i've recently learned. different cafe, man.