11 posts tagged “hungary”

Szervusztok!

Ma délután I picked up my Hungarian phrasebook (Lonely Planet).

I think its exciting. Szerintem kitűnő... if you know what I mean :-P

Anyway, if you've ever come across a Lonely Planet phrasebook, you will know some of the hilarious statements inside the pages of the handy little thing.

• He/She is a good looking guy/girl
• Do you know what you're missing? Me!
• I don't take drugs. I take ... occasionally. Do you have a light? I'm high!
• Go away! Go to hell! Piss off! I won't do it without protection. LOL
• Easy, tiger! (Csak lassan!)
• It hurts me very much that I have to leave.

Also, I think its funny that the work 'park' is pronounced as 'pork'
which reminds me of pig o.O
and that 'party' is written 'parti' and is pronounced 'porti' which reminds me of a port-a-loo  O.O

And let's talk about the TONGUE TWISTERS!!

This one makes me laugh:
A tarka szarka farka tarka. De nem minden szarka farka tarka csak a tarka szarka farka tarka.
Pronounciation: o tor-ko sor-ko for-ko tor-ko. De nem min-den sor-ko for-ko tor-ko chok o tor-ko sor-ko for-ko torko.
The multicoloured mockingbirds tail is multicoloured. But not every mockingbird's tail is multicoloured, only the multicoloured mockingbirds tail is multicoloured.

Makes sense, don't ya think?? xD

In summary, the Lonely Planet phrasebook is actually really handy. 250 pages of everything from travel to health, and banking to english<->hungarian dictionaries and a culinary reader for food.

:-)

Buy Lonely Planet rather than Berlitz. Trust me, I've read both xD

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I got my new camera yesterday.

It is a Sony Cybershot 7.2 Mega Pixels and 4x Optical Zoom

It is black.

I got it at Noel Leemings... and the coolest guy ever served me.

First off, got the camera for $220. That was all sweet, also came with a 1GB card and case for free.

I also told him I was going to Hungary on a student exchange, and I said i may have issues with the type of battery it came with cos they weren't AA batteries, and he goes "no problem. Use a converter. Are you wanting extra insurance? (yes I was) Hey if so, I'll chuck one in free." so YAY a free adaptor worth $16.99!!! It fits NZ plugs that can then be plugged into European power points :-)

The picture above is a picture I took of the (crappy) Berlitz phrasebook's Hungarian section. Pretty snazzy picture though, right? :-)

Today I got my "official notification"

all it says is:

AFS Year Programme to
Hungary

CONGRATULATIONS

Amy *****

This is your official notification of your placement in

Hungary

Your papers will be sent to Hungary who will screen
them to ensure you meet their criteria

When you have met AFS Hungary criteria,
they will then guarantee to find you a host family.

Sincerely..
****

I'm going to HUNGARY!!!

I recieved an email today from AFS national office.

It was being sent to both me and *****, because I was left off a mailing list for a very important orientation next month.

This is what it says:

Hi Amy, attached is the information for the orientation camp, I'm sorry I left you of *****'s list. ***** can you confirm I sent you Amy's papers?

Sounds good, yes? No problems here? Nope. This is where it gets interesting and made me go =|

She is off to Hungary.

Wow wow wow.. but I thought I was going to Belgium Flanders?

Am I country-less? Which country is my country?

I am ringing tomorrow to sort this out... I'll keep you all posted, my dearest followers

Hi Amy,

Actually they haven't replied.  i will write again and copy in the boss!  that should get a response!

That was from AA national office when i asked if they'd heard from Hungary yet. *sigh*

Note on top says:

Hi Amy,
I'm sending you these in advance of HUNGARY saying yes!
It might be helpful!
Regards

Afs books

And I loved how the Hungary booklets were on top (lol)

One called 'Welcome to Hungary' and it has like 20 pages and its general Hungary information
The other is Guidelines for Personal Safety: Hungary

And for Flanders I got:
"Happy Stay in Belgium Flanders" i dont know why, but i thought that was cute ^^
and Tips for Personal Safety in Belgium-Flanders

Thank you AFS NZ =)

And although I don't have my country yet.... this reading will certainly fill in the time =)
(and prevent me from suffering from breaking-dawn-ititus)

Us 0910's from CS are starting to organise our Travelling Notebook. Its time to, because we have 3 outbounds in January, with the rest of us being in August.

It's gonna be pretty awesome. Its a notebook that is posted to all of us. We sign it, draw on it, paste pictures on it, on our each own seperate page, and pass it on to the next person on the pre-determined list.

How exciting!

Anita, (NZ->Chile departing Jan) is starting it off.

We are currently in the decision of WHAT kind of notebook/book to use!

:) cant wait till i get it!

from amy -> hungary, flanders,  or czech republic

INTERVIEW DAY!
Team Building with the outbounds and Panel Inteview!

This morning:

Team building. There were 6 of us there. (3 to France, 1 to Canada (French), 1 to Chile and Me. That is, 5 girls and 1 boy. Only 7 outbounds in total from HB, but one of them couldnt be there.)

This actually only lasted like an hour. After that i spent a half hour talking to the AFS Advisor (AA) Sarah about my country situation. We firstly did this thing with chairs, KIINDA like cheops pyramid (do you know the pyramid game?) but with people. I mean, that alone took 40 minutes. We then played human knot, twice, (grab hands in the middle and try and untangle it). The first time worked really well but the second time took AGES. And also a blindfolded game. first you gotta find everyone. then in the hall there were 2 items. One was a rope. you had to find the rope. and blind folded, using everyone, you had to make this rope into a square. hard. and then the second time there was a rope and a stick. you had to suspend the stick in the air with the rope. blind folded this was too.

I talked to Sarah (AA) about my countries. She said I am out of the age for Hungary. BUT. Hungary is NOT a popular choice, and the people that are placed there usually DO NOT pick it. Its a 'left over' country, heresay. Thats not saying there's anything wrong with hungary, its just that people would rather go to france spain japan argentina etc. Hungary is a "strange" choice. Now, back to what i was saying. The age restriction cuts me out of the running for Hungary. But as it is not a popular country, I may get in IF there are any places spare *FINGERS CROSSED* and she says shes pretty sure im the only person in NZ that actually has it on their list this year.

so I had to fill out the country form again.

1st choice: Hungary

2nd choice: Flanders (mum said if i put hungary first, i MUST put this second. so i said OK hoping like hell i get hungary)

3rd choice: Czech Republic (apparently pretty popular)

and my "OK" countries (eg i dont care whether or not i get them, just extras in case they need them) are: norway sweden finland (all of scandinavia lol - oh except denmark)

So about Malaysia.

Mum said NO.

AFS people tried talking to her. she said NO.

so i go "ok, as long as i have hungary."

AND NOW THE PANEL INTERVIEW.

The questions were hard!

things kinda like:

think of a situation when you made a bad decision

what was your most embarrassing moment and what did you do

what would you do if you were placed in a family whose beliefs were very dfiferent to yours and how would you handle this (i didnt actually answer this one)

what would your teachers say about you if we interviewed them

what do you hate most about school (ENGLISH TEACHER) and then i had to explain why and what i do to try and settle this down

things like that. they were awesome though, im pretty sure they liked me lol and they wanted to know "why hungary? why not...spain? france?" and i was like " -_- because it feels right."

i mean, wat is it with FRANCE?!? two of the interviewers went to france and the other to USA! common countries. where's the out-there countries!?

i go on a lot of things based on how they feel to me.

so i am happy about how things went today.

and dont get me wrong, i still love you, Vlaanderen.

Fingers crossed for Hungary!