Budapest Quirks

Szia!
I'm finally updating, but not much has really been going on.
Since Vienna, classes have gotten into full swing - I'm taking 3 math classes, a comp sci class, and a philosophy class.. so the workload has me pretty busy.

In more exciting news though - I'm actually cooking shit. It's just a tad more difficult learning real cooking when you can't read the label and don't know wtf "shortening" is in English, nevermind Hungarian. Oh and Hungarians don't use baking soda. No really, it doesn't exist. No baking chocolate either. I discovered this only AFTER me and my roomate invited people from the program to a "brownies and cookies" night at our apartment. So now we gotta figure out real quick what we're going to make for this "brownies and cookies" night without baking soda or chocolate.

Budapest has plenty of little quirks like that - no rubbing alcohol or betadine at (what Americans would consider) drug stores. You have to go to a pharmacy, which isn't like a Rite Aid or Duane Reade or CVS in the states - it's a small little shop with a counter and you tell the pharmacist what you need and they get it for you. It's like the prescription pharmacy section of large drug stores except you have to go there for everyday things like rubbing alchohol.

My monthly transportation pass has officially expired yesterday without being checked even ONCE by the ticket control people. That's 6000 Ft (~ 30 bucks) down the drain. And they wonder why their public transportation system is going bankrupt? No one pays to use the damn thing. It might as well be free.

That's it for now...
what else do you want?