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 :) :)

Hi,

sorry for being lazy and posting just once on a week... but it is beacuse I really like being here, it feels like I have been here for at least a month :) But the question is how was my week?

On monday I had a terrible lecture, the teacher is bit dizzy, she was even talking about her kids, I could not really follow her, and not because of the english... :( :( But fortunately a wine tasting saved the day, maribor has the oldest vine in the world, it is more than 400 years, unfortunately that special vine is just for special people, (I am really trying to be one :D) but the others were good too :) And at night we went to Ljubljana for a big all erasmus people from slovenia party. 

On tuesday I was sleeping a lot because of the party :D We visited a museum of Maribor. Usually museums are boring to me, but our tour guide was really passionate about history and funny, so I could enjoy it :) In the evening there was a pub quiz, according to the quiz, people think that hungarians drink a lot, complain a lot and we spend our whole life at one place and actually I can confim that :D

On thursday I had lectures, which were quite good and we went to a spa :) 

The most important part of the day was planning our first trip in Slovenia. There was a trip organised by a local student organisation, but it was already sold out, when I tried to buy a ticket. I was not the only one with this situation, so  with four other people we organised our own trip. We rented a car, and we did a two days trip in Slovenia, it was super cool :) :) :) We used my phone as gps, so now everbody from the trip knows in hungarian the "turn left" and "turn right" :D You can check my facebook for beautiful photos :) I think my favorite destination was Lake Bohinj, I think it is even better than the very popular Bled. I think I really left my comfort zone, I rented a car with four people, who I barely know, I think the "Eszti in Hungary" could never do such thing, but here everything is very different, and I really like this :)

Hello everybody,

What happaned since my last post? I finally have a roommate, a polish girl, who is very nice :) yaaay :) 

On tuesday we had a slovanian dinner, the slovanian foods are very similar with the hungarian ones, so I liked them and there was slovanian folk dance with some games, it was nice :)

On wednesday I discovered the park next to the dorm, I went for running it's quiet big, one circle is more than 1 km, so it was really cool.

Later we had a program called "timber rafting". It was on Drava. We got an amazing view and some vine of course :D and there was slovanian music and some games :)

At night we had a really good party :)

On thursday I had two lectures, they seem to be not so difficult, the professors's English is very good and I could understand everything, so it was totally okay. Picture about the school:

After school I was with Germans, I tried to improve my German  a bit, at least I could understand a few words :D

At night we had a gala night at a fancy rooftop place, so it was time to dress up :)

On friday I finally got my slovanian personal number, so I could apply for student coupons. There is a really good system here, every student get 20 coupons per month and with the coupons we get very good discounts in restaurants, e.g. on friday for a soup, tortilla, salad and peach I had to pay only 2 euros :)

Saturday was the day to have some rest.

Today we had international dinner, so with the other hungarians we cooked goulash soup and we made small bites with sausage and salami and I could try the specialities of other countries.

Hi again,

so my next day in Maribor was sunday. After a long sleep we went to buy a few other things, so now I really have everything in my room, even small hanger on the wall and mirror :D Later we had a very good mexican lunch :)

After it the time came to say good bye to my family, it was a bit sad and weird, because I started to really feel that I'm alone in a unknown city with a lot of strangers... :D After a period of hesitation and plannig I was brave enough to just go to the kitchen to introduce myself to the others :D It's really cool here, that people are eating and cooking in the kitchen, you can almost anytime find there somebody to chat, everybody is very friendly and open-minded :)

Luckily one of my neighbours is hungarian and he came earlier, so already knows a lot of people. So in the evening he invited me to join them for a beer. And it was a very good time, the slovanian beer, Lasko is quiet good :)

Monday was my firts day at school. The welcome session was nice: welcoming, a singer, presentation about statistics regarding Erasmus students, about ESN. We got a t-shirt and some snacks as well :)

 After that we had another welcome session at the faculty, I got my timetable, time of exams, contacts of the professors ad some paperwork of course...

In the evening I had dinner with the hungarian guys, it was really good talking in hungarian a little bit :)

At night we had the welcome party, it was quiet good, especially the gathering before it in the dorm :) and after the party I realized that here I can see the stars on the sky because there is no smog :D :)

I'm in Maribor

Hello everybody,

I arrived in Maribor yesterday morning, the journey was really good, just 3 and a half hours, and it was quite easy the find the dormitory. The room looks like my room at home, but there are more shelves and space in the wardrobe (yesss! :) and it's newer. My roommate haven't arrived yet, but I hope she will today, but choosing between the beds, wardrobes... etc. was really good :)

After arrival we went to europark to buy some things to my room, it was very tiring after the journey, but now my room is very homy. The cashier in the hypermarket was very nice, she had the current magazine with coupons and she searched for the coupons which were good for me and gave me the discount :)

After the shopping we finally had lunch, I think a picture about us was almost put to the wall of the restaurant because we ordered 3 large cevapcici and we ate all of them, my brother-in-law has the record with 14 pieces :D :D

Later I cleaned the room and unpacked the suitcases, had some rest and we discovered the city, it is very cute, it's bit like Sopron or Kőszeg, narrow streets, you can reach everything by foot. We discovered a very good pizza place, where you can cut the pizza with scissors, it's really funny :D

Pictures about the city: