Sunday, February 24, 2013

Language School..


Well, we are about to embark on our second week of intensive Hungarian. We made it through the first week with our class, and although you could nearly hear the rusty gears turning (2 others are "in our age group", Lol), we all made it through.

What is Hungarian like? Well, one of our teachers was going to do this:    dzsesszklubban


 Can you guess what it is?

Sure you're ready?






Jazz club!  No wonder when people want a Jeep, they think of DZSIP!  That's how it would be spelled!

 Are we ready for week 2 yet? I really don't know but we will find out tomorrow.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Szeretlek!


 Szeretlek means "I love you" in Hungarian... no one said that more to us than Jesus, Himself.

  Every season is a season of love to share with others, to let them know that God has CHOSEN them before time began, and wants fellowship - personal fellowship with them everyday. All we need to do is ask Him to come into our hearts and desire to follow Him now instead of our own selfishness. That's okay - our selfishness just gets us into trouble anyway.

  We have had the opportunity to share this in the Hungarian schools all ready! We have been invited in and asked to come back more! Who would have thought we would have created interest? Certainly not I! It is only by God's grace that we are here, and the prayers and support of those in the States and around the world who are allowing this to transpire. For this we are deeply thankful and love you to help us love these Hungarian people in different ways everyday!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Whew!

  Here we are after climbing up Gellert Hill in Budapest with some other Americans we met.  We not only climbed up, but also down the hill (most people take the bus).... aspirin and ibuprofen have been our friends with all the walking we have been doing lately. The weather has been a bit chilly - in fact it was snowing intermittently during the day and we had some accumulation that night, (Monday).

  Monday was a milestone in many ways - we learned how to get to and onto the bus (Busz) to get to the metro station where we could buy a book of tickets (saving $), then negotiated our way in our (English/Magyar) to the correct subway that took us in to meet our new friends.

  We were able to walk around a lot of part of Budapest, see the HUGE market building they have, see some other lovely buildings and then hike up Gellert Hill where there are some large monuments near and dear to Hungarians' hearts that overlook the Danube (behind us in the picture) and a few of the bridges  (Elizabeth, Liberty & Petofi) linking  the Buda side to the Pest side. (Pest is usually the flatter side). The famous cave church is in the Gellert Hill as well.

  After saying "Viszontlátásrá!" to our new friends, off we went, back to our little town.

  We have been getting out more on our own, and thankfully today I remembered to bring the "Angol/Magyar" dictionary with me on my way walking across town to wash clothes at a friend's house. I needed to buy some washing soap, so I went into a small ABC (local small/tiny store). No soap to be seen, but the lady came inside as I drug my airline bag of dirty laundry in the store as well.  Of COURSE all of my long practiced Hungarian left my brain as I was trying to ask if they had some laundry soap. So, breaking out the dictionary, I fumbled my way through... but she still was confused. We both started laughing then & I was trying not to go into the oh no, I-am-getting-so-I-can't-breathe stage". Holding a hand up, she went to the register area & produced a laptop w/ mobile wi-fi (called "wee fee" here). She brought up the equivalent of google translate and we were off... except for the different keyboard! It all worked out, they didn't have any but she directed me to where I could find some that wasn't miles in other directions.  I was practicing the words in my head... and of course they fled again when I drug my suitcase to the next ABC! Thank Heaven for dictionaries! She actually knew a couple English words, but I need to practice my Hungarian desperately & am really looking forward to school starting in a few weeks!  I said the words needed to find what I need - (dish soap & laundry soaps look amazingly similar!) and voila! Mission accomplished! I really appreciated how helpful both ladies were - and told them so...as much as I could.