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:

The final countdown is really coming...

It's unbelievable... in two days my erasmus semester will be started, it's crazy that I applied for it one year ago, time flies... I'm really excited and a bit nervous, but I think it's normal :) 

The last few weeks were very busy, having farewell parties, dinners, lunches, drinks :D thank you for them to all of my friedns, ex-colleauges :) dealing with bank and school stuff, buying new clothes for parties and school (bye-bye business casual clothes for 4 months, yaaay) and of course a hiking jacket, small suitcase for trips, applying for international student card, downloading offline map and slovenian dictionary, but I think I almost covered everthing on my to do list :) (ohh just came to my mind that I have to check the slovenian electronic plug type :D ) Now I have some rest at home, saying good bye to my family and friends here.

On friday I have to pack my bags, change money and I will be ready for the journey. I will leave Budapest on Saturday morning, so the next piece you will get from Maribor :)