Two good days

Saturday was a big success in learning! Yaay! My big accomplishment of the day was doing the grocery shopping entirely in Hungarian! When buying some meat, I even changed my mind about what kind halfway through and was able to communicate that I wanted a different kind! Ok, there was some pointing, but I didn't use English! I walked out of there with everything I needed.

I'm beginning to string sentences together in a comprehensive way. The words don't always have the right ending or vowel (there are a lot of these), but people usually get the general idea of where I'm going. Still have a long way to go, though, which is why Jack and I have decided to take a class of Hungarian after all. It's only two hours a week, and it can't hurt. We got a lot of good advice from our friend Matt DePasquale, who did this program a few years ago. One of them was TAKE THE CLASS. At least it's an opportunity to meet other people in the same situation, and an environment to ask random questions we've had over the past weeks.

Tamás came over in the evening to show us how to cook some Hungarian food. The paprikás we made is like a stew with homemade noodles and lots of Hungarian paprika, meat, onions, etc. The cool thing in this is the noodles, the recipe of which is this:

Eggs + Flour + Salt + Milk = pancake batter type goo. + boiling water = COOL NOODLES! (paprikás - pa-pri-cash)

Tasty, and we've got tons of leftovers.

Today (Sunday) productive, too. We both put in a good 2 and 1/2 hours practice before noon, and played duets together after dinner. I went to Ikea (here pronounced ee-kay-ah) and bought a few glasses for the kitchen, and a peeler for which my knuckles are very grateful. We also returned to the Museum of Fine arts in Hösűk tere to visit the El Greco exhibit, which is only around for two more days. I had a great time looking at the paintings, but of course most of the historical information and intellectual discussion of painting techniques was lost on me. I don't know squat about art, other than that Margaret is a fantastic artist. I just liked watching the paintings.

Cafe is closing. Hope everyone is well. I'm enjoying calling random people, thanks for picking up the strange number. If you want me to call, send me an e-mail or message on Facebook. I know the 'post a comment' link is broken, I'm trying to fix it.

Sok puszi!