I want a holiday there!!!
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For those who are interested in Eastern European affairs, personal and scientific achievements and Orwellian dystopies. This story has been going on for a few months now, and in the past couple of days it reached a point where our politicians bend reality in the most blatantly ridiculous and hypocritical way. Doublethink, anyone?
He does not resign.
“If Hungarian was a drug, it would be magic mushrooms.”
Don’t mind me, just shamelessly plugging my mother tongue. In this video, an Irish and a British guy talk about studying it in Budapest. Good to know they appreciate it as a poetic challenge. :)
Although I’m a bit miffed that it’s taught at a school of Slavonic studies in London, it’s not a Slavic language, it is Uralic. Far more obscure, it’s almost like we are the linguistic hipsters of Eastern Europe… A famous relative of Hungarian is Finnish.
have some pictures of us in a pastry shop at the occasion of this being my 1000th post.
look at my beautiful friends, don’t they just look like the nicest of people? sometimes they almost make me vomit rainbows. almost.
despite my glum expression I was extremely happy at the time to see them, it’s just a moment of concentrating hard on stuffing my face.
it’s so great to be home. i wasn’t sure about it at first but then i met my parents and the dog and it’s second christmas!
meeting friends on monday and tuesday, too.
My sister wrote to me that she’d spent her evening protesting in the streets - again - against the government who held some sort of a ball or celebration at the Opera in Budapest tonight.
I don’t know how familiar you all are with what’s going on around there with the prime minister, but apparently the government had to sneak in to the Opera through a disused underground tunnel, which was last used during WWII. That’s how things are nowadays.
In other news, I’m travelling there tomorrow.
EDIT: The government celebrated the signing of the new Constitution: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/world/europe/rare-opposition-protests-in-hungary.html?_r=1&src=tp&smid=fb-share
stupid homesickness, please leave me be. all it takes is a certain type of music and I’m but a whiny puddle of nostalgia longing for a romanticised version of my country that only exists in my head. a bit lame.