Today was our second day of legit classes, and it was pretty cool. Hungarian was fun as always, since our professor is this hilarious old sarcastic guy who just teases us (there are only 9 of us) all the time. Then we had Comteporary Issues in Central Europe, which seems like it's going to rule. Our professor is this very sweet, earnest man, and every class we're going to have a speaker on a different issue, including the former President of Hungary, and the former governor. That's pretty awesome? So after class, our professor, who clearly wanted to impress us and show us a good time as much as possible, took us to the library a block away from school. It used to be a palace, and now it's the sickest library ever. There are 15 reading rooms that are the most ornate, impressive, stately things I have ever seen. I'm going to go there and read or even just sit there, for sure (by the way, Fo Shor means something in hungarian, we can't remember what. But somethign to do with beer). Anyways, it was an incredible building to be inside of, and our professor was clearly delighted with how amazed we were by it. Then we went to an outdoor cafe to get drinks with him. Now Carolina and I are looking up flights to London for our 11 day Europe Extravaganza during our fall break in October, and watching MTV dubbed in Hungarian and drinking wine.
Oh yeah, so Carolina and I were making jokes about Gypsies stealing our stuff, until we found out that it's no joking matter. Apparently, the "Roma people", a nomadic ethnicity without a nationality, traditionally referred to as Gypsies, face incredible amounts of discrimination throughout Europe, but particularly in Italy, Bulgaria, and Hungary, where they have their largest minority population. The reason they face this adversity? Because they're Gypsies. Lying, stealing, tricky, dirty gypsies.
Well, no, not really. But I'm sort of unclear on this whole subject. Sounds like these people have been a pretty bad reputation in these parts, and have been pretty consistently fucked over. But according to Wikipedia, it's because they don't really follow laws. I dunno, they sound pretty badass to me. But we get to learn more about them this upcoming semester, so I'll be more informed.
Being abroad is draining my pocketbook.
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Don't act like you're not in love with the idea of joining up with a band of people who blatantly disregard the law, steal shit from the undeserving, and shower probably as many times a month as you do.
Though your pigment doesn't shout it, there's gypsy in your blood.
Hoe.
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