Learning...

"szép lánnyal beszélek"

Word by word translation:

beautiful girl_with speaking_I_am

(I feel like Yoda, lol)

Today..

Let's take a break from the old posts and pictures (i'll get back to that soon).
So today I had a class in the afternoon, with an enthusiastic teacher... and she was explaining to us how learning hungarian could be so easy, because there are some words that work as a stem from which all the others come from...
So, she started telling us:

Look at the word PILLANA... isn't it such a beautifull word?? And what about PILLANGÓ?
ooh, all the words with this stem, PILLA, are so beautifulll! Don't you think? Repeat after me! PI-LLA-NA! Once again! PI-LLA-NA! PI-LLAN-GÓ! isn't it beautifull? I really love these words!

Hmmm...

I'm sorry but no, I don't hear the music nor the harmony nor I can see the prettyness of those words regarding that the stem looks waaaay toooo much with another word in portuguese... (I'm sure you all portuguese out there thought of that too!)
I really wish I could answer her and say "yes, what a nice word!" But... hmmm... sorry, no. Strange images popped into my mind everytime she repeated (once again...) and I had to say them out loud. lol.

More Food!

Food from the second day, at the same restaurant... everything was delicious, but I think I started to get a little bit fed up of all the cheese...(no offense, Martinha!) I don't think there was one meal, so far, that didn't have cheese!


Mom's plate: Keméncében sult, toltott tortilla - pirított zoldségek, garnélarák, parmezánmártás.
( Tortillas baked in oven stuffed with roasted vegetables, shrimps, and Parmesan cheese sauce)


Dad's plate: Cézar saláta píritott csirkemell kockákkal
(Caesar salad with grated chicken breast cubes)


My plate: Rukkolás rizottó csirkemellkockákkal, pirított fenyomaggal, parmezánforgáccsal.
(Risotto with ruccola and chicken breast cubes, roasted pine seeds with ground Parmesan cheese)

A Request from Lu

Here you go, a photo of me with the Royal Palace behind :) *



(btw, obrigada por todos os comentários até agora, minha gente!! É giro ver que gostam de ir cuscando o que se passa por aqui.. e daí estes posts todos hoje, aproveitei para colocar mais qualquer coisinha já que tive um bocadinho mais de tempo e o incentivo foi grande.. obrigada!)

Need to practice...

My hand is sooo rusty... all of that work in the end of the semester left me no time to practice... I hope to correct that soon.

Guess who was really happy...

...on the second day,at the "Hungaroring Fest" that we happened to be at, at the Royal Palace?







Dad is probably going to kill me as soon as he sees that I posted these pictures... but I had to do it for Tia Gui, Mariana, and Nuno's sake ;) (sorry!)

What a Grand City

I'm loving it, though sometimes I feel small... like the city enjoys showing itself, being photographed, but at the same time shows you you'll never be up to it's grandeur... hard to explain.
These were taken on the second day, in the castle hill.

(you may now click on the images to see them bigger, if you want to... I probably won't do the same when there are people portrayed in the photograph)


The view from the hill over the Danube (that pointy building is the parliament)


Royal Palace

Food!

You can see I was with my parents in the first days... the dinner was always in Blue Cafe, at the mall, and we were able to eat strange Hungarian food (at least I think it was!) in impeccably arranged dishes.


Mom's plate: Kemencében, sajttal pirult tagliatelle prosciutto-val
(Tagliatelle with prosciutto and cheese, fresh from the oven)

I'm glad they had the translation in english, lol, otherwise it would be reaaaally risky to order something...


My plate: Vegetarian dish (didn't have hungarian name...)
(Poached camambert, cheese cake, grilled corn in herb butter, roasted baby carrots, served with rice with dried tomatoes.)


Borsodi Bivaly + Friss lecsó vasserpenyoben vagy tojással
(Fresh vegetable stew made in an iron pan with sausage and egg)

I must say they were all really good... we came back the next day ;)

Meet my Room...

...403, at the Balassi... and I'm sharing it with Britta from Estonia.


the door


the entrance


the bedroom


the view from the window

Jó reggelt!

Welcome to my Erasmus experience Blog, where I'll be sending postcards from Hungary to all my family and friends.
I am a Communication Design Student at FBAUP (in Porto, Portugal) and I am going to study animation at MOME (in Budapest, Hungary) for at least one semester, starting in September.

"September? What the hell are you doing there now, then?"
Right now I'm waiting for my hungarian classes to begin... these will take place at the Balassi Institute, where I am currently living. The course lasts for a month, and this will actually be my first *real* experience living away from my parents house... (yep, this means I don't usually cook, and that I have never done my laundry... this ought to be fun to watch, lol)

So, to all of you interested out there, I'll be posting some images and a few comments (don't expect too much writing, though) on how I'm doing here, and how it is to live in a new country, where I don't understand a thing of what people say on the street!

Wish me luck!

*Carolina Búzio

p.s.: "Jó reggelt" means "good morning" the first word I learned by myself, and "A nevem Carolina" means "My name is Carolina"!