Hello everybody,

I should finish this blog, right? :D So how was the last week before Christmas? I finally managed to go to watch a handball game and it was very exciting and for free, so I was a bit disappointed that I just discovered this good oportunity at the end of the season, but at least I discovered it :) and that day was really good with the handball game, dinner at chinese and party :) On the week of my departure I was very excited, I wanted to go for Xmas shopping and just go home as soon as possible, but I still had an exam, so I was pretending that I'm studying :D 

Christmas at home was great, I love Xmas, my slovanian presents were popular and it was really good to be with my family again :) and speeking in Hungarian. At the beginning, fo 1-2 days I was still sometime thinking in English, it was funny, but then it disappeared. After one week at home I returned to Budapest because of my exams and of course because of New Year's Eve. It was super cool to meet with my friends and celebrate the new year and my birthday with them :) I even had Erasmus friends as guests in Budapest. I hosted them and spent with them one day in the city, it's always a pleasure to show my amazing city to foreigners :)

I travelled back to Maribor by train, it was 7 hours, but quite comfortable, the worst part was going to dorm from railway station, because it was snowing all day and I couldn't pull my suitcase, I was so exhausted after that walk.. worst walk of my life probably :(

At first it was a bit strange to be Maribor again, because after seeing my family and friends I missed them much more than before and I felt that I was there only because of exams and it was not the same Erasmus as at the beginning...But later I came up with the idea to create a bucketlist for Maribor and fortunately I managed to complete a lot of bullet points of my list: 

• Go to Pohorje
• Go to cinema on Monday
• Go to museum
• Go to Noomm
• Go to Falafel
• Go to spa
• Go to sushi place
• Go to bell tower
• Go to Fuego
• Go to dorm gym
• Drink turkish coffee in Bascarsija
• Eat layered cake
• Eat burek in Baščaršija :D
• Check the big heads near Lidl
• Drink coffee in Luft during sunset tonight
• Eat filled chimney cake (panky way) in front of the church
• Go to Casino

Besides these I participated on chinese new year celebration, I could celebrate the last university exam of my life and I was skiing :) My last party in Maribor was very good and on my last full day I was playing flunkyball, it's a funy sporty drinking game, check it ;)

Hmm...yes, these three weeks were very busy and really enjoable :) (and now I'll cry :/)

The packing and saying good bye part were very said, at dorm we were living like a big family, I got so many hugs and good wishes... :)

To summarize it was an amazing period of my life, probably one of my best decisons in my life, I met a lot of great people, made frinedships with them, saw beautiful places and I could just enjoy life :)

Hey,

yes, I'm still alive and I'm still in Maribor :D Just in the past 2 weeks I was super busy with school stuff, yeah I know, it is maybe unbelievable because I'm on Erasmus, but it's busier than I thought. 

After my last post I submitted four seminar papers and had two exams, now I'm very relieved :) of course there was a big party to celebrate on wednesday :D

Oh, I almost forgot, I was on a trip, too :) on a really great one: first we went to Croatia, Zagrab, Rijeka and Pula. Zagrab is a nice city, it's a big city with a lot of opportunities, but somehow it's still very friendly, I liked it a lot. Rijeka was nothing special, because I already was there in the summer. Pula: it was very good to be there again after spending there 4 days in the summer, it's still a cool place :)  After Croatia we came back to Slovenia, we went to the seaside, it's amazing. I think it's better than Croatia. We were in Isola, slept in Koper and went to Piran. I enjoyed it a lot, the italian influance is really visible. After the seaside we went to the mountains. Slovenia has two faces and it's really great. In the mountains I'm always amazed by the nature, what kind of things nature can create. We visited Planice, a famous skijumping place, those towers are just crazy, the only thing that I can say that crazy people exist :D

And I was in theatre as well and I enjoyed it very much, there was English subtitle, so there was no problem with understanding :)

In the next week I still have an exam on Wednesday, so I will be able to go home just on Thursday :/ I cannot wait, it will be great to be at home for a while. But before that xmas shopping is just waiting for me :P 

To be honest on the other hand it will be probably weird to be at home, not speaking in English, not not seeing the others for 3 weeks, I really got used to this international environment. But it just 3 weeks, afer that I will still have 3-4 weeks here :)

Dear all,

since my last post I had my first exam here, in Maribor. It was much more difficult than I thought, because the teacher told us that we get just basic questions, but it was a lie :( but the good news is that I passed and I got a C, so one subject is completed :)

On previous weekend my roommate was here to visit me from Prague, it was very cool to see her after two months. We were not so lucky with the weather, but it was still a great time :) We were walking around the city, shopping, eating a lot, went to cinema and I finally used the public transportation and cable car to go to the mountains, it was very cool, the view was beautiful :)

On this week I was ice skating, I'm still not the best, but I enjoyed a lot, I will go on next tuesday too, because we have to pay only for the shoes, so I hope I will be able to improve my skating skills a lot during the semester.

Wednesday was my perfect day. In the morning I went to hairdresser, so my hair has a nice color again, yaaay :) After it I finally managed to buy local vine in a vine store and it's great :) Later I ate a good pizza, had a good coffee next to Drava during enjoying the sunshine and went to Kalvarija with a beer to watch the sunset, it was really gorgeous :) In the evening my sis booked our flight tickets to Berlin, we will go in March, yaaay :) and at night we had even a party :) It was really a perfect day :))

Yesterday the Xmas finally arrived in Maribor. We have a lot of lights in the city and a Christmas Market too, and I bought my chocolate Xmas calander with the pic of Rudolf :) The funny part of the market is that you can only buy drinks :D no handmade stuff, small gifts, this city is really for Erasmus people :D

Today I had visitors again from home, my ex-colleagues came :) it was a very nice day, we were walking a lot in the city, chatting, going to Piramida :) and I got túró-rudi :)

My slovene is just getting better and better. I'm able to understand how much I have to my in stores :D ohh and I finally tried the choco kebab, I think a pic is enough:

Hi people,

really sorry for becoming more and more lazy...so what happened in the last more than one week?

Last saturday and sunday my parents were here, it was so cool to see them :) Of course I got a lot of things from them: túró rudi, pálinka, apples, paprikas, homemade jams, chocolate, first I was very shocked because of the two big bags, but to be honest now I'm happy that I have a lot of things :) On saturday we went to Ljubljana, it was rainy, but still enjoyable, it's a nice city :)

In the evening we had dinner in Maribor, I had to show them the pizzeria, where you can cut the pizza with scissors :D

The nex day we spent in Maribor, actually  it was my first real sightseeing tour in Maribor :D I think I showed them every impotant thing. Unfortunately because of the rain we could not go to Pohorje, but we had cevapcici :)

In this week I started to apply for jobs and I had even an interview, so getting the perfect job is in progress :) 

On wednesday as usual we had party, in the dorm we cannot be loud after 10 pm and this rule is very strict, if we do not take it seriously, the security guys come and yell with us...but there is a party room, what we can rent and there we can be til 1 am, so on wednesday we rented that room for predrinking :) it was a good night, the pálinka was very popular :D

The friday was again the day for the guitar and singing, I really like this, just gathering in the kitchen, drinking a beer and singing some songs :)

And the best part of the week was on Saturday, we went to Celje to watch a handball game, Celje vs. Szeged :) The match was really exciting, they were very close to each other at the beginning, but then Szeged became much better and they won :) :) We had tickets for a normal, slovanian sector, because it was too complicated to buy "hungarian" tickets, but fortunately we could change the seats, so we were cheering with the hungarians :) 

It was my first time to exprience shared car system. We went and came back by car too and there was no problem, quite easy to book, and it was much more cheaper and faster than train :)

Oh and funfact for today: in Celje I found out that there is no McFreeze in Slovenia, it was really weird I asked for it, because I thought that everthing is the same in every restaurant, but not, here it's called McSundae :D :D

Hello everybody,

I'm a bit late, sorry for this, but in this week til now I was really in zombie mode because of the parties and the change of the weather (winter is really coming unfortunately... :/ and I have to find a nice winter coat... :)

So about the trip: it was very cool :) we again rented a car, a really big one, because it was for seven people, represented countries: Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Pakistan, Turkey and Spain, I really like this multiculti :) first we went to Graz, we spent not too much time there, but I liked it, it's a nice town, I could see trams again :D (I miss Budapest :/) The next destination was the Gesäuse National Park, before Erasmus I didn't know that I love nature that much, but I do, it can be so beautiful :)

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After Graz we went to Hallsatt, it's a very cute place, like in a farytail, it reminded me a bit to Bled, I would be nice to go there again during summer and I'm planning to buy a house there, right after my volvo, piano and house at the sea :D

After Hallstatt we spent the night in a nice apartment in a small village with a great view:

On Sunday we went to Salzburg, it's a great city, very beautiful :) We visited a lot of places, castle, churches, fortress, hauses of Mozart and of course a Manner and Mozartkugel shop :)

Actually just driving in Austia surrounded by mountains, hills was very cool and enjoyable:

Monday was the day to have some rest and preparing for the halloween party and it was the first day for me to cook here...okay, I just made pasta with tuna and pesto, but still I did sg :D

On Tuesday afternoon with a few people I went to the top of a hill close to the dorm, one girl brought her guitar, so she was playing and we were singing and enjoying the sunset from the hill :) (Sorry I made no pictures, but next time I will ;)

On Wednesday I was running and finally went for picture for my CV, so my CV is ready, I just have to convince to myself to start applying for jobs, but I really don't want go back to the reality from the "Erasmus life"... :D  and in the night we had party again, ahh life is hard here :D

On Thursday I was mainly suffering because of the two parties :D

I think this is the first week when I really started to miss my family, friends and Budapest, after the trip to Austria it was very weird because I just really wanted to speak with sy in Hungarian...but my parents will come to visit me, so porblem solved ( or at least I hope so) :)

Hello,

I know it's not sunday, but it's time for the next post, because the next two days I will spend in Austria, yaaay :) It'll be a 2-days trip, we'll visit Graz, the Gesäuse National Park, Hallstatt, Salzburg, Brechtesgaden, and Pörtschach, or at least this is the plan :D my suitcase is already ready and I'm really excited :)

In this week I held my first presentation here with two other people, I was very nervous before it because of the English, but I think it was good and the teacher liked it :) Just like at home we have a lot of group project here.

On tuesday I managed to buy a blouse, so next week I'll go a photo place and ask for a photo for my CV, and then the jobhunt will be started, cross your fingers pls ;) 

On the same day, we had a program so called "buddy rally". We had to form groups and complete tasks in the city, e.g. make a picture with people in purple, dancing duckdance with ducks and we had to record everything by phone, it was really funny :D I'm still waiting for the result, because the group, who completed the most tasks, will get a prize :)

In this week I was running twice, without working and with not too much lectures, I really have time for such things, it's so cool :) Once I was running in the park next to the dorm, and once along the Drava, it was so cool, to be honest maybe it was better than along the Danube at home...

Wednesday was the day for party, it was a very good one with good music :)

Furthermore I applied for slovene language course, so I'll start to learn slovene in Novemeber, I'm a bit afraid that it'll be hard for me, but we'll see.

And of course I'm still enjoying the food coupons, in this week I ate for free 3 times with coupon and all of them were really okay, especially for free :D

On Monday the next piece about trip will come ;)

Hello,

here I'm again. My third week in Maribor is almost over, unbelievable :)

This week was a really good one, it was the first one without programs by ESN, so I could plan my days. I liked the programs by ESN, but somehow without them this week was very calm and nice :) For example I discovered a cute honey shop, I got my first haircut here, I took a long walk along the Drava :) and unfortunately I had to make some homework :(

On friday a few of us from the dorm visited a hungarian guy in Ptuj. It was very nice, we were walking in the city, discovered the castle, had a coffee and in the evening we were cooking "gulyás", it was delicious :)

Saturday was the day for hiking, it was a 20 km trip to the top of Pohorje with two polish girls, I enjoyed it a lot :) the surprising part was that there was a huge amount of snow on the top of the mountain, I didn't expect that much... Today I really can feel my legs :D

To summarize my status: My connection with the euros is still not the best, my purse is always too heavy because of the coins, I'm still searching for a good bakery, the bus tickets are extremly expensive (2,3 euros for 30 min.) but I can eat free with coupons, the nature is beautiful, the town is very nice, and the people too, so I'm still really enjoying being here :) :)