Birthday, Pecs, First signs of Spring

These past few weeks I have been quite busy with at first my cousin visiting from Austria for my birthday. Michaela and her boyfriend Georg were here for the weekend and joined our party on Saturday night. The next two days we filled with lots of sightseeing and checking out the shopping mall. We had a lot of fun together, going out for drinks, lunch at a Belgian brasserie, freezing in the cold, taking hundreds and hundreds of pictures. Thanks again for your visit, Michi and Georg!!

Apart from that I started doing a lot of work for school as readings are now increasing steadily. My profs are all very interesting and fun! For example, I have an old, very nice professor who teaches about the change from communism to demorcracy in Eastern Europe. It is a very interesting class! However, his humour doesn't quite reach the class, so he regularly breaks out in laughter and we at first don't quite understand the reason for it. However, with time we do get his joke and start smiling too. Another very funny professor is our Marketing Professor who enjoys a drink or two (or more) each day, and is very easy going. He tells us a lot of stories about his travels and international differences in culture, values, customs, etc.

This past weekend I went with friends to a city in southern Hungary, Pecs. This was really good as Budapest has been rainy, snowy and grey during the past week. Down south it was nice and warm and we could walk around in T-Shirts. We went for walks, went out and enjoyed to be somewhere else in Hungary for the first time.

And returning to Budapest was great too! The first signs of spring have came and we have had warm temperatures and sun since Monday! Although it is supposed to cool down towards the weekend again everyone is really happy about these first warm days of the year!