Every week (when we're good), we put up a new picture or two on our home page. We keep them here for review, in case you missed them. If you want to go further back in time, then choose one of these links. In proper blog fashion, time goes backwards here.
| 2009 | December-September | August-May | April-January |
| 2008 | December-September | August-May | April-January |
| 2007 | December-September | August-May | April-January |
| 2006 | December-September | August-May |
Last week four of my kids ran out of the classroom
right before class was supposed to start. A few minutes
later, they came in looking like this:
Matyi, Évi, Barbi, and Peti had dressed up for their
German class Carnaval (pre-Lent) party, and they gave
me the honor of seeing them like this, too.
When I do a unit on hobbies, the kids use play-dough
to "enhance" their oral quizzes on their favorite pastimes.
Here are a few of my favorite pictures:
Barbi is a photographer.
Dóri draws comics.
Lurkó likes rowing, but you can read that.
Our Brazilian friend Juliano celebrated his birthday
here in Hungary. So several of us took him out for pizza,
and then we went to our friends' flat for dessert and games.
Joelle was preparing to help Juliano blow out his candles.
Eliza wanted to share Juliano's tea.
Eliza is still one of Doug's greatest admirers.
Jarrod
These students will be preparing a presentation
for a nationwide competition in March.
The topic: Michael Jackson's Thriller.
The team: Gyuszi, Judit, Kriszti
Karen, Rebeka, and Cili at Cili's former school
Shannon and Eliza playing with Barni at church.
The daughters of our very first friends in Hungary were
2 and 4 years old when we met them in 1992.
Now those girls are 20 and 22, their little sister is 15,
and their little brother is 3! Here's Dani with his mom Zita.
My favorite place in Vác, the chocolate café or "csokizó"
closed their doors forever this past weekend.
My heart is sad, but it's time to move on....
The hot chocolate was thick—
more like melted chocolate than anything.
Five of my students were there on Friday:
Fanny, Zita, Tina, Vivi, and Dóri
Usually Virginia weather is the opposite of Hungary's,
but this past weekend, both places had snowstorms.
The difference is that nothing stops here when it snows.
Here's our apartment house.
(I would have chosen a different color.)
A bit of the main square
Snow-capped Hedvig, patron saint of the Danube Bend
A bunch of Americans got together to hang out with Juliano,
a Brazilian man who is teaching for six weeks at Lea's high school.
Here are Doug, Juliano, Éva (another teacher), and Karen:
Lee, Jarrod, and Caleb
David, Shannon, Eliza, Grace, Joelle, and Caleb
Alex and Kato (who is barely visible) playing with Joelle
This past weekend was the Senior Program at my school.
They had waltzing...
...a mafia play...
...hip-hop dancing...
...and some Air-Earth-Wind-Fire thing.
Our church in Vác always has a New Year's Party.
This year, people dressed up as something starting with A (or Á):
Karen: ács (carpenter)
Tamás (our pastor): Arnold Schwartzenegger
Markó (Tamás's son): állatorvos (veterinarian)
Dalma and Peti: Arabs
Adri: aquarium
Joelle: angyal (angel)
Jarrod: ajándék (gift/present)
Later in the evening we did Karaoke.
Karen sang a
Hungarian song called "Petroléum Lámpa,"
which is an
ode to, not surprisingly, a petroleum lamp.
Karen also impressed everyone by being the first to
identify quotes from A Tanú (The Witness),
a classic Hungarian movie.
The Hungarians gave her a very long ovation!
Cili, Karen's best friend in Vác turned 14 this week.
Her party was this past Saturday.
This is my current 10th grade American Culture class.
I only get them for one semester; after next week
I'll gain a new group. But I'll definitely miss this crew!
