Békéscsaba- end of week 2

Thursdays lunch: garlic soup with popped air on top with spaghetti and pork with sour cream. It tasted a bit like fried dinosaur, though I think I might have liked dad's rendition a bit better!

Below: Fifa/fanni, Betti and Ivana

We ran three miles on Friday morning. Afterwards, Fifa and Betti stopped by a plum tree and filled fifa's red bag with plums. Like fifty or sixty of them. I guess that's what they do around here. They see a tree and they pick as much as they want. Plums are their favorite though as far as I can see.

Dinner Friday: raspberry soup (not my favorite since there were no chinks of anything in it) and rice with chicken. I'm not sure what kind of chicken because it had an interesting texture. Maybe liver? I think that the FEK (that's where lunch/dinner is paid for every day) serves four types of main courses. They always have one deep fried like chicken, cheese, pork or a mix of the two or maybe all three. Then they have another dish that is sour cream with chicken or pork or sausage, but mostly a lot of sour cream. When the girls order this type, they then douse the sour cream in more sour cream.

On my walk home from practice, I say this nice toad. I forgot that my current climate is a little bit better for these kinds of creatures.

Adam finally brought me my laptop. It's really great and basically brand new. The only thing I would change is the language. I can recognize the icon so I can use it fairly well. I am grateful for this new addition to my room. 

Saturday: we had a scrimmage against some boys that live around here. We beat them. Embarassing. 

After the scrimmage we went to the tesco. The tesco is one of the biggest grocery store in békéscsaba. Pretty comparable to Walmart. It is one of the few stores open 24 hours every day.

This cinnamon looking roll (kakaós csiga) is delicious. It has some chocolate-ish flavor in the middle. 

Ivana and I stopped for some ice cream of course. This is becoming a trend. Also these shopping carts are so interesting. Yes we did have to pay 100 ft to use it (about 50 cents). The strange part is that all four wheels are movable. It really makes driving it easier when two of them are fixed. But the crazy maneuvers were quite a bit easier.

Joca invited us to dinner on Saturday night. They cooked up every kind of meat and everything was really flavorful. Oh except for the potato salad and I guess the potato fries. They had some skewers of shush kabob things that were my favorite part. No pineapple though. 

Hear the group at joca's minus Ivana who took the picture. 

Top row: Joca, Peashti (keechi's boyfriend), some friend of theirs (Sean?), keechi

Bottom: sdhuayaksio (joca's boyfriend) Nikki, me, and Lana 

Joca's boyfriend showed us his massive collection of military stuff and we tried on the Hungarian women hats. It was a really fun night with these people. They are all very welcoming.

Sunday: after church me and Ivan rode to Lana's flat. Lana's mom and godmother made some gibonitza (cheese pie) it has this flakey top with cream cheese oozing from the inside. Pretty good, but not sweet.

I think this pastetom is a fairly regular addition to the Hungarian diet. Ivana introduced it to me. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to eat it. It's like putting meat on your bread without inconveniencing yourself with separating the slices.

Hungarian (Magyar) milk. Really nothing special. Tastes a little like evaporated milk.