This is a short list complied of all the strange little moments, which have become quite ordinary parts of our lives. Collected over multiple weekends, with multiple CETP-ers, this list represents things that originally surprised/shocked/delighted us about Hungary.
- Place the following items into a grid.
- When you have completed an item, fill in the grid square.
- When you have completely filled out the grid, congratulations you have acclimatized to CETP culture shock.
- Drink a Boroscola
- See a student drink
- Get scolded for sitting on something cold
- See a faux-hawk mullet
- If single, have a Hungarian neni or bacsi try to set you up
- See a castle outside Budapest
- Get lost on Public transport
- Sleep in a flat with more people than sleeping space
- Eat fornetti/princess/polgacsa
- Catch yourself using the stupid American excuse
- Feel morally obligated to bring sandwiches on public transport
- Visit a town/village that has vowel sounds that do not appear in English
- Have a conversation in Hungarian
- Pretend you do not speak English
- Buy mustard/mayonnaise in toothpaste tubes
- Palinka
- Shamelessly make out on Public Transport
- See a free-range chicken
- See a shirt/jewelry with pre-trianon Hungary on it
- Have someone thank you for being here
- Get lost on Public transport
- Be greeted with Csokolom
- Watch someone consume more than 6 sandwiches a day
- Buy clothing with incorrect English on it
- Be mistaken for a Hungarian by a Hungarian
- Be smiled at in the street by a Hungarian stranger
- Be quizzed about your love life by your students
- Be called Neni or Bacsi
- Get recognized on public transport...extra points if it is by the driver/Kontroll
- Be delayed by livestock
- Gyula
- Light your oven without burning yourselves
- Be mistaken for a a Student
- Eat Pizza with peas/corn/sour cream
- Buy wine for less than 100 ft
4 comments:
egeszegedre to that shit!
Well, I suppose I can't play by the rules because I'm not there or in the program. However, in the US I would be able to check off 13 (2, 4, 7, 8, 14, 18, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 33). 1/2 points?
I'm on board with most of these, just...
5. not only if you're single
11. I dont know about moral obligation, it's just practical
29. Don't get it, recognized as what? A foreigner?
30. not everyone lives in the sticks like you! My daily travels are more likely to be obstructed by traffic than cattle
31. seems to apply more to you and Vivvi and exclude, say, everyone else in the world
35. Clarification... do you mean by dl or by bottle? Because if you're talking about bottles, then all bets are off and you win this game a hundred times over, you hero you!
also...
-use a poop shelf.
-buy eggs individually, off a warm shelf next to the bread, and carry them home in a plastic baggy.
-have a room full of people shout "jo et vagyok!" when you take out even a single cracker to eat.
-travel 5+ hours each way to spend one weekend on the floor of another CETPer small flat.
-try to walk to Romania.
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