It's October!

It is now October and in 8 days I will have hit my half way mark in Budapest. Crazy! 

Here are some RBTs from these past two weeks:

Rose:

Olivia and I at the ballet

• Olivia and I went and saw a ballet for about $5 on September 24. The show was incredible. There were four pieces and the first piece was for sure my favorite. They had this wall that they incorporated into the first piece so well. They moved the wall forward and back, brought it down for certain part so it acted more a stage, folded it to make it into a corner, and went through multiple doors within the wall. It was a beautiful piece.
• Haley and I found a really good bagel place one Monday morning. They serve bagels with omelets and avocado and a bunch of other yummy stuff. I just got a bagel that had cream cheese and tomatoes on it, but I definitely want to go back and get one with avocado. I also had an apple mint tea that had a really good unique flavor. It reminded me of fall back in MN.
• I have done two escape rooms these past couple of weeks:
• The first one we got 50% off at because it was World Tourism Day. It was a psycho-killer room and had a bunch of scary unnecessary noises throughout. We escaped with five minutes to spare, but got really lucky because we had guessed on a couple of combinations. I think we could have also escaped a few minutes earlier had I not dropped a piece we needed down some random small hole. We weren't able to get the piece back and it caused us to not get another number we needed.
• The most recent one occurred yesterday, and we escaped with about eight minutes to spare. The theme was "mind-boggling", but unfortunately there weren't as many puzzles as we all would have liked, just a lot of keys and combinations, nothing too fancy.
• My Hungarian culture class went and saw a gallery of Robert Capa, a famous Hungarian war photographer. It was a really cool gallery. The photographer had many interesting realistic photographs and unfortunately died after stepping on a land mine while capturing the First Indonesia War.
• I sang in the English choir at mass on October 1. I was shocked to find out that the hymn books we used were made at St. John's Liturgical Press at SJU. It was a very exciting moment.
• A group of us went and saw Les Mis last Sunday. The performance was really great, despite not being able to understand a word. There were English subtitles though, so the ones that don't know the show my heart, myself included, knew what was going. Our seats only costs like $5, but they were definitely not very good seats as I could only see about 3/4 of the stage due to our location in the balcony.
• I taught my first English lesson to a group of women refugees from Syria and Lebanon. All the women were so eager to learn and I am really looking forward to another lesson next week!
• BSME had an event where we were taught a bunch of Hungarian strategy board games (like chess-style board games). It was really fun and required a lot of thinking.
• Olivia and I enjoyed a wonderful evening yesterday. After the escape room, we got some soup and headed to ICFB. Then we caught the end of a performance of Margaret Island at the chimney cake festival while enjoying chimney cakes. We thought we were going to miss the music, but got there in time to listen to at least four of their songs. While I have no idea what they were singing about, they sounded really good and it was a perfect end to the evening.
• I got a lovely care package from my parents this week with some good American food like mac and cheese, Chex Mix, and angel food cake mix.
• The rest of this weekend includes a trip to the National Gallery, more exploration at the chimney cake festival, and maybe a swing dance lesson (and homework :) ).

Bud:

• The second to last weekend of October the fellowship group that Olivia and I are in is holding a retreat in some woodsy part on the outskirts of Budapest. I am really looking forward to this weekend full of fellowship, music, and prayer.

Thorn:

• Small Thorn: Haley and I planned to meet up for pizza last Saturday and ended up waiting at different parts of the entrance. So we both waited at this place for 20 minutes before figuring out we were both there. We laugh about it now, but at the time it wasn't that funny. We were both thankful though that we have phone plans so we could call each other and figure out where we were.
• I got sick Thursday afternoon and haven't fully recovered yet, but am getting there.