Egesegedre!

Last night we, against our better judgement, ended up at yet another outdoor club blasting the biggest club hits of 2005. We should have known it would suck balls when our Hungarian professor told us "that is where the high schoolers go, already drunk". In order to fit in, we chugged European malt liquor on the tram, consistently chanting the newest Hungarian word we've conquered, Egesegedre, which means cheers, and sounds like already-drunken mumbling. Anyways, Carolina spent most of her time talking to a goofy guy wearing a goofy yellow hat because he said he knew how to get marijuana, but all she remembers from the conversation was asking him whether he was the po-lice.

Which brings me to my newest second-favorite activity-- drunken skype prank calls.
First favorite? People watching. We were warned in "culture shock" class that people watching is Hungary's national pastime, and not to be alarmed if people just blatantly stare at us. Nice to know that we have free reign to stare at people as much as we want, which is an activity we practiced readily at the thermal baths today... most European thing I've ever done. Here's a picture of it, it was beautiful. I didn't take this picture though. Anyway, there are three pools, one of them is pretty warm, another is a normal pool, and the other is cool and refreshing. There's even a mini whirlpool you can go get swept around in circles in. you can see the corner of it on the very left edge of the picture.

Lots of hilarious old people in bathing suits, old men playing chess, speedos, thongs, the whole deal.

HIGHLIGHT of the day: old Hungarian men playing chess in the park, one old guy playing had his crack hanging out, and his old friend snuck up behind him and was tickling his crack with a leaf.