Spontaneus trip to Neuchatel :)

Yesterday I was in the down town, organizing my life...paying the rent, informing about the French courses.

It is very interesting, btw, that I tell them, ok, I don't speak French, I studied in the book A1, we finished at the lesson 5.

Than the guy suggested me a course...starting from the lesson 7.
Yes, it should be good for you.

Hmm...yes, it should be good, I will catch up with the others.
Nothing is easy in this life. :)

Anyways, so I was just wondering, what should I do in the rest of this wonderful Saturday, when Shirly called me.
Anthony and herself are going to Neuchatel. There is a Festival, 330 different musical band. If I want to join...
No question, I have to go there.

After this conversation, I realized, that I left at home all my "flat shoes..."...so, I bought one.
(Yes, that's why I like it, I can save money on rent, then able to buy shoes... :)))

Neuchatel is 1h15 far from Geneva, with a nice lake, surrounded with mountains...so, basically a typical swiss city. :) It turned out, that the festival is actually Fete d'enfants...so for the kids... :))) Anthony, Anthony....you wanted this...noe I understand why. :) Your other side.. ;)

Everybody wore some dresses-...flowers, bees, trees, etc. It was very cool.

And all the kids had this small paper stuff...confetti...and they throw it to everybody.
We got a lot too. :)

Of course we visited a church, and an old tower too.
What do you think, if in front of a church there is a red carpet, and than in the 2 sides of the entrance door there are 2 huge flowers, with white ribbon around...?
Looks like a weeding?
Yes, you are right.
For us, it didn't mean anything.
:)
We just entered the church...
Shame on us.
There was a wedding inside.
So we left the church immediately. Without seeing the organ.

Then visited the old tower. Just try to picture this:
An old tower, at the beginning of Autumn, the trees are in different colors, all type of red, yellow, brown, green, small path leading from the tower to a garden, beautiful view to the mountains...
Got it?
Isn't it amazing?

Well, yes, but in reality...graffiti on the walls, not that nice, well-treated garden, and the view was more of a communist-like panel houses...

So, we went back to the Festival, people were not really dancing, but we didn't care. :)
We enjoyed it.

Seriously, all different types of music, latin, brazil, hip-hop, austrian classic (jodlee-ing...), balloons.
It was a nice day trip.

At the end, we arrived to Lausanne around 0:20, the train to Geneva leaves at 0:48.
Ok, so, let's go to the platform, and sit inside this waiting box, or whatever it called.
Anthony: Once I slept in a box like this.
Me: Really? cool.
Shirly: Oh, the train on the other platform says: Geneva.
Me: Yes, you are right.
Anthony: Oh, yes.

1 minute silence.

Shirly suddenly jump up: THE train says: Geneva!!!
and run out of the box.

Hmm....
Oh, yes...so it GOES to Geneva...
and than we started to run as well..

(Anyways, it was so funny it that moment. :)

That was my Saturday trip.

Home, sweet home

hihihi...what a nice title....it also applies to my sweet HOME, HUNGARY, and also to the fact, that YES, I managed to find a room... for october :)
And I have just created this...

Anyways, so, I spent last week a fantastic 1 week at home, I was in Győr with my mother, father, and my little brother... (he hates when i say like that...he is 21 or what... and my Grandfather :)))

Than I went to Pécs, visiting my friends there....amazing...today they are having their last-last-last final party in the university...
(i am sure they will have more parties at the uni, but not as a STUDENT...)

IT IS OVER.
5 years.
And I am not there. :(

They are graduating tomorrow!
(Just come to my mind, please send me photos about the graduation!!!)

Congratulations girls, guys! :)
211 FOREVER!!! :)

On Tuesday evening, we had "girls night"... :)
I really needed this talk! But, as I saw, all of us hihihi

Than, on Wednesday, great party at Bazis.
If you are in Pécs, never, ever go there...Seriously. It is amazing. Amazingly bad.
And the DJ dared to say - while a well-known party song was played - "Only the old ppl can remember tihs song..!" hmmm.. I think that was the last worst monent that day in that disco.
OLD PEOPLE????

So, yes, I realized....we are old... too old for those parties... it is now time for girls and little boys like 15-18.
Hmm..that's it.

On Thursday I went to Budapest, visiting the other branch of my firends...

It was so great to see how 2 great friends of mine are in love!!! (with each other obviously!!!!) I am soo happy for you guys! :)))

Let me know if there will be anything about the "CLCC"... (closed LC's Conference) or whatever it called... :P

Big kiss to everybody,
I am back to CH... :)

Changes.
I was very afraid, that there will be lot of changes.
Everybody has changed.
I changed.
You changed.

But it is good to see that that certain "fire" is still in our eyes. :))

It should be always like that! :)

All Blacks - The Haka

STAY BLACK!!!!
New Zealand forever!!! :)))

Seriously...I am scared...poor Portuguese team...

But the mascot is cute...khm..cute? that's a weird expression with rugby...

Looking forward to...

TRAVELING BACK TO HUNGARY!!!!

Yes, finally...less than 19 hours...and I will be back HOME :)

I am worried that
- I will be late.
- I couldn't take the printer on the plane...
- the chocolate won't be enough for all my friends& my family
- actually that is my biggest fear. So please, if it is really less...just smile..and be happy... :)
- @HP it is not the best timing...I mean it is...but...as I am a big "careerist cow" (the cow is stolen... :)))...the timing won't be convenient ever...
- I still don't have any accommodation for October... so the timing is definitely not the best ... :S

But I am looking forward to that trip, because
- of my brother!!! finally we can TALK a lot about everything... ;)
- of my mother&father!!! And my father will be on holiday on that week!!! yeah!!!
- of my grandfather!!! & of course the handball match!!!! :))) On Saturday! :)
- of my friends
- than the conversations... :)
- the drinks
- the crazy Wednesday party... :)
- going to Budapest for the other band of friends
- I can catch up with all my friends!!! :)))

Oh it will be sooo great! :)

Today, by the way, as a last-minute trip, we went to Lyon! :)
That was amazing! :)

And I had a very strange feeling...
Anyway...so I start form the begining...
I was very upset because of the "flat situation..."
So far I have 2 options:
A:
Close to my workplace, not that far from the city center (that is important, because after a crazy night I can walk home...) (ok, after some experience I promised to myself that I will never walk alone home..but...just in case...)It is a collocation of 5 people, they are cool, young. But...they interviewed me...(and other 21 people)...and it is a very big disadvantage that I don't speak french...or at least I won't say it as "I can speak french.."
And they have a very good plan...every 2 weeks 1 out of them do the shopping for everybody and they eat all the time together.
I mean, it is great. I am a people person, so of course I love eating together with the others, or cooking. But like everyday??? And I can not do the shopping for myself? And what if I have different time schedule?

B:
Close to the station, nice, perfectly furnished room, with my own bathroom... but...with a father and his 15-year-old daughter. She would live there just 2 weeks a month. And...again...I don't speak French. :( And the father was kind of weired, that I have "just" L permit.

So, what should I do????
I think, and I am getting to be more and more convinced that I need my own apartment with my own rules. I have to confess that I am too old for a collocation. (Or I was alone for a too long time.) Or simply I am just picky???
But after UNIV how can I be picky?
Anyways...so in this situation I went to RDL to drink. (to forget and to be cheered up) Than they figured out to have a trip to Lyon.
And as Orsi is there, and since I am kind of spontaneous...I said yes.

We went by car...but...on the highway we stucked into a huge traffic jam...due to some construction on the tunnel...anyway...so while we were waiting...a NZ guy ran out of his car...and started to run...with a penguin in his arms...And he stopped next to the car in front of us.
So, it took us a minute to figure it out...that they want to go to Lyon for the Rugby World Cup...NZ against Portugal....
So, now I know everything about rugby...(I should have known something because of Marek...but anyways...)

So, after 1 hour sitting in the trafic jam, and after an other 1 hour travwling we reached Lyon.
It is a big city, with loads of churches...the guys loved my organ-addiction... :) NOT!

And we ate a huge lunch in one of those small, nice, narrow street with cobblestones. :)

Than climbed up to the basilica the view was great! :)
Then we ate huge huge icecream...ice coffee...the coffee was shity, but the ice cream was great! :)

Than we walked around the city a little bit, than traveled home. :)

Unfortunately I didn't meet Orsi...but later... :)
Because I am jealous... Lyon is great, it's bigger than Geneva...ok, there are no lake, no mountains...but still... :)

And yeah, back to my strange feeling.
It was once when I last time was in Paris...and it was Christmas time, and I was just walking on the Champs Elysées...than the lights - the Xmas lights - was turned on suddenly... it was beautiful..and than I just felt, that yes, I will work in Paris once.
(I don't know, nowadays I am dreaming something, and it turns true...usually I don't believe in these things, but now...I started to be more conscious about that...)
And while we were walking on those streets, and among the beautiful colorful houses, I felt the same...

We will see....

kisses
"A happy-traveling back to Hungary-snow :)"

Erasmus

Hmm...I 've got an email from the hungarian Erasmus office, saying that there will be a 20th anniversary of this programme, and because of that there is a competition.
Ok, it is not really a competition, the thing is, we have to write a story about:
- the funniest moment
- the most adventures
- the most embarrassing
- the most moving
- etc moments of our Erasmus scholarship life.

What stupid idea is it... All my 5 months in the Netherlands was full with different moments...and each of them was the most of sth...

Seriously...when we were in Berg en Dal, or when the last day with Annamieke she drove us to Nijmegen after a couple of drinks and something else...
The Gay festival in Amsterdam, the corridor parties in Hoogeveldt, the exams and the preparations for the exams... (in an Eastern-european way...), the bycicle tours in any kind of weather.. mostly in rains...eating cakes, movies, squash parties, first and last hug from somebody unexpected, last days, planning our Euro-trip, "the T-story"...yes...all of them was a unique experience, unique moments...I can not write it down on an A/5 paper..not in a way that it will be funny or moving, or embarassing, or interesting, or scary for somebody else...you should have been there!!

Well..maybe the T-story...but that is something longer...

Hmm...I am just wondering, that today this is my 3rd post...well..it is because all day I am not doing anything, just sleeping... :)

Traveling from Geneva 3.

For Meiringen and Brig check the previous posts... :)
In Meiringen there was the Sherlock Holmes waterfall... :)

Anyways...unfortunatly no picture available about Zürich...

Ok, I have to admit sth... I can not take photos... (that's also an other funny thing.. I am working @HP at IPG which stands for Imaging and Pringing Groups...) Yes.., it is all about photos...) So, after a while I gave it up...it is not a shame, you have to know your weaknesses... so that's why I am always happy when my friends are coming and they are taking photos instead of me... :))) They have such a great eye for such a things...
So, about Zürich, I am still waiting for Alice's photos... :))

In the meanwhile here are some photos about Geneva:

Ok, Geneva is not just about the Jet d'Eau...but I like it so much... my favorite place in Geneva is behind the Jet d'Eau... what a pitty that is getting cold...
The Fathers of the reformation...
The statue of Bocskay can be founded here also...
My friends were here... That was when 7 ppl were in my small room... :)
The pooor egyptian girl couldn't handle it...and she betrayed us...

Traveling from Geneva 2.

So, now I have time to write down my travelstories...

3. Bern

I have been in Bern twice...once with @, for the transition party... and once with Eszter...
Well...to tell you the truth...for the second time I liked it better...But still I haven't seen the bears... I think I have already written about it...Yes, definitly, that Bern is nice, it is so swissgerman, it is like when everything would stop there...
The fountain...

The famous clock, with its marvelous play in every hour... (at least that was said in my book,...) well, the truth is not that marvelous...after this beautiful description we excpected something amazing, funny play, how each and every animal and little thing is moving...but...



4. Grindelwald - Interlaken

So, when Eszter was here, we traveled a lot... And she wanted to see something typical SWISS...something like in Heidi...do you remember this film? Of course, with the Grandpa, and the goats, the mountanis, the green beautiful environment...well, that is what Eszter wanted to see...
:)
And as a good host, I wanted to give her this. (Fortunetly, she is such a good organizer, that she arranged everything instead of me...) Thanks :)))
So, we went to Interlaken first - which is rather for the american tourists...


American tourists...



Than, to Grindelwald...for hiking...OH MY GOD!! There are 3 mountains.. the virgin, the evil, and I forgot the 3rd one..but you can guess...if these 2...what could be the 3rd one???
Anyways, so it was amazing...
(ok, to tell you the truth, we were not that lucky, I don't really remember, something wrong happened, than we missed 1 train from Interlaken to Grindelwald, than the train didn't want to move after a while...we had to wait for an other one...and in the meanwhile Eszter kept saying that she wants to experience totally the same as it was in Heidi.
(It doesn't matter, that this movie was made in the east corner of Switzerland..and we were heading to the heart of Switzerland.... :))

But, finally after 2 hour late we arrived to Grindelwald...we decided to go for a 1,5 hour hiking.., the initial plan was to go for a 1,5 h hiking, than for a 4 hours one...aha...of course... :)))
Not to mention, it took us 6 hours...around... :))))

But IT WAS AMAZING!!!
BREATHTAKING!!!
We also stepped up to a real glacier...it was sooo windy...and high!!! SCARY!!!BUt interesting what ice and water could do...

Than we continoued our trip...without any goat... :(
Everything was great...we almost finished...when Eszter for the last time said: ok, now, this is perfect...I just need to see an animal to feel like in Heidi.

Traveling from Geneva

Can you see the little red points where I have been so far?

Yes, not that much..but not bad at all... :)
1. Geneva
2. Annecy (FR)
3. Yvoire (FR)
4. Bern
5. Brig
6. Interlaken
7. Meiringen
8. Grindelwald
9. Brienz
10. Zürich

Let's start with Annecy.
Annecy is in France, 1,5 hours far from GE. Also called as the French Venice.. And right, this small town is amazing....obviously it has got a lake, and mountains around, but the small streets, this old fashioned atmosphere...it is amazing :) And it is not as stinky as Venice... ;)

With Eszter we joined to the group a little bit later...(hmm..why? Because we couldn't find her passport... and why? ööö...because of me...because, last time ,when we wentto Yvoire, I left my passport at home...and I was worried, so we went back for it, which means that we lost half an our from our very important schedule...and I didn1t want to experience the same again..so for security reason, I took her passport too...) Anyways...so, after we arrived, we rented a pedal boat, than cycled in the lake...The only problem was, when a huge boat came in fornt of us...generating huge waves...yes..that was scary a little bit... NOOOOT... rather funny... but later, when I realized that my camera was in the water...well...that wsa not that funny....

Look at the photos:








2. Yvoire

That was an other, typical trip with Eszter. :))) ;)
We rented a bike...and cycled 26 kms... for us, it took 3 hours... Khm...
Somehow I remembered, that for Dolphy the same took 45 minutes...
Ok, ok, we stopped to eat, and stopped to take photos too...

Yvoire is in France too, but you can cícle around the Lac Léman, so it is very cool. It would be better, if we could really bike beside the lake...but it is not possible due to the privet houses, apartments... This 26 km was up and down hill...but it was great! :)
And Yvoire is a middle age city... :)
With the garden, with the castle, with the lake...amazing :)


This is better, than the dutch one, huh?




When the weather is clean, we can see the Mont Blanc... WOW! :)




TBC...now have to go...I am still looking for accommodation from October... :P

Back to usual life...

Well...summer is over...back to the normal life...no more visitors... (at least not in this 4 weeks...)...just the gym, my french course, and HP of course...
And today...today is a bank holiday in Geneva...nobody is working...except...
Hmm..yes...I am a careerist...I will have a meeting with WW at 6:30 in the evening... and what's even worst.. I am interested in this meeting... so..why not? I can go to the office... :)

10 days, and I am traveling back to Hungary!!!! After 4 months... finally I will see my family, my friends...

Yes, I am counting the days already! :)
And thanks Sysy for the bed, I will use it! :) Sept 19 :)

An other interesting the world is small story:
- On Facebook (i hope u are on it...watch out..u can get addiction...) a guy found me from Frankfurt...saying that he wants to go to Zürich, asking ME for accommodation...
Ok, ok I love Zürich...but i don't know it that much.... So I wrote him back, that I will ask my friends...and asking him by accident, whether he knows from Frankfurt Adam Antal....and what was the answer???
Of course, they will travel together to Zürich!!! :)))
Amazing :)

Hubert, my polish party friend will leave soon.... Yesterday we had a dinner together with all the other friends... Hubert cooked! :)
Can you imagine this? :) It was an American dinner...hamburger with potatos, and salad! :)
But his formal farewell party will be on Saturday...

Hmm...ok, I know aiesecers never say goodbye...but still... :S

HP Picnic

We are a family...with all my sisters...we are a family...

Yes..HP is a big family...
:)

So, to meet more people, to get to know my colleagues, and because I can not sit on my ass... I was part of the HP Picnic organization team...

We had team meetings every 2 weeks, during lunch time...sometimes longer...
It was great to see how is it going on a professional level...when you don't really have to worry about the budget...of course we had a maximum...for 1 day the budget was almost the same what we have for our "Freshmen-camp" in Balinka for 1 week for example...
YES! I know! Amazing... we are talking about millions... (in HUF...hehe..not CHF...but still)

I was responsible for the donkeys, and for the face painting... :)
Both was a very good success... :)
I am happy, that all the kids were happy...and actuallly the face painting was so famous..that not only the kids, but also adults painted themselves...it was so cool! :)

The picnic was in front of HP, in a huge field...we had hamburgers, BBQ, salad, dessert, icecream, beer, wine, beer, wine... :)
So, lots of stuff...oh.. i am full... :)))

Orsi was here as well, she helped a lot...however, she shouldn't have to! :)))
We took care of the children, who were jumping in this castle-thing, and so on...

Later on I was in the bar... (hm...where else...) serving others..My French is now improving...definitly...
I know the water, the Coke, the Fanta, the Sprite, the ice tea, the wine and the beer in French... (ok, i understand those words if a french speaker pronounce them.. :)))

Anyways, to sum up, it was great....Finally I found some female company for myself...so the lunches will not be boring, and "male sovinistic" anymore... :))) I hope so at least...

Really, to have lunch always with these "macho guys..." well...thanks for the training guys, now at least I know how men are thinking... Amazing. :))

So, back to the HP...
I really like this company, this athmosphere here...

And my manager keeps saying: 8 months, 8 months...
(My contract is till May 2008...so 8 months...)

We will see...too early to think about things like that :)

So, now after a very good organization and coordination, finally we can start drinking...hopefully! :)

And finally I will meet - after a long time - my crazy-swiss-party-girls!!! Julia & Carissa!!!! :))))

Here are some pics:
The big bosses...8th region