Sziasztok! and welcome to my budapest page... the extremely summarized plot goes something as follows: for fall semester 2002, i went to budapest, hungary for the budapest semesters in mathematics program... it was one of the most challenging, intense, and fun semesters of my life!... below you'll find links for all kinds of cool stuff in budapest, all the mass emails i sent throughout the semester, plus a random assortment of pictures... enjoy! =P



[budapest links | mass emails | photos galore]

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• city of budapest
• international church of budapest
• budapest semesters in mathematics

• 15 august 2002: adventures in budapest!
• 21 august 2002: ah! the sights and sounds of budapest =)
• 27 august 2002: tíz kilenc nyolc hét hat öt négy három két egy budapest budapest woohoo
• 2 september 2002: a párttal, a néppel, egy az utunk.
• 10 september 2002: a napokban, találkoztam egy medve, az erdőben, a meszszeségben
• 16 september 2002: maga sokkal jobban tud angolul, mint én magyarul.
• 23 september 2002: adventures in romania!
• 30 september 2002: a buli a dobozban él mindörökké!!!!
• 7 october 2002: a brief eclectic history in statues =)
• 16 october 2002: oh happy day... =P
• 25 october 2002: time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana =P
• 5 november 2002: esik a hó! (finally!!!)
• 13 november 2002: on flying pizza and burning pencils...... =P
• 18 november 2002: ...and so forth and so on....
• 2 december 2002: guests galore and thanksgiving in poland! =)
• 13 december 2002: advenures with hungarian health care, and other fun things =P
• 19 december 2002: ... and the rest is history....

my apt

• our apartment
• street sign for our block =P
• view of the city from our balcony

college international

• school building
• main entryway
• main stairwell
• school cafeteria

sights of budapest

• around and about town...
  • the chain bridge
• folk art festival -- august 17
  • folk art fest at buda castle, ticket, etc.
  • hungarian singers performing at the festival
• budapest parade -- august 24
  • truck at the parade
  • a whole crew of us at the parade: (left to right: eric, ben, amanda, jason, patrick, mason, me, arlene, andrei)
  • fanta!!
• statue park
  • statue park, tickets, etc.
  • brother and me with statue of lenin
  • workers' movement monument
  • mason, rahul, chris, me, andrei, and kevin with the huge Huge HUGE republic of councils monument
  • martyrs monument -- really cool shot with the sun...
  • captain steinmetz and osztapenkó

gatherings and fun =)

• christmas party - dec 5
  • chrismas party at our apartment =)... (left to right: (front row: evan, arlene, henk, michelle), (back row: ben, adam, kristin, amanda, marianne, me, shalom, zsófi, nathanael))
• rita, ana, and arber's birthday - dec 16
  • the whole crew at the jungle restaurant, (left to right: nathan, rita, ana, theresa, me, zsófi, nathanael, ben, attila, arber, henk, and shalom)
  • the whole crew, take 2!
  • nathanael and ben... dude....
  • theresa, me, zsófi, and nathanael
  • nathanael, ben, attila, and arber
  • nathan, rita, and ana
  • nathanael and ben again... what's going on???
• christmas party - dec 21
  • the whole gang... (front row: melinda, marianne, ben, nathan, zoli... row 2: amos, amanda, nathanael, yuki, me, réka... row 3: shalom, alex, henk, zsófi)

vienna, austria

brasov, romania

prague, czech republic

pecs, hungary

krakow, poland

szentendre, hungary

• marcipan museum
  • marcipan nativity

people, people, and more people... =)

• the Bible study crew... (left to right: réka, nathanael, shalom, me, and thanh)
• lunch crew, 22dec02,... (left to right: henk, shalom, ben, ana, theresa, zsófi, me, and nathanael)
• lunch crew, 22dec02,... (left to right: zsófi, me, nathanael, ana, arber, henk, shalom, and ben)

absolute randomness =P

• flooding duna (danube) -- weekend of aug 17
• father christmas?
• 23dec02: flying home... clouds over germany