Greetings from the "Indian Summer"

Üdvözlettel !
Since I am in Pécs there has been almost no day that wasn't sunny and warm. It is october now but still we have around 20 degrees, the sun is up the whole day and the little mosquitoes are -unfortunately- still alive. Secretly we call it our little Indian Summer.

In the kindergarten there has been a theatre group last week. I didn't understand them speaking but the children where quite excited about it which made me happy to see. As well we made a little trip to find some chestnuts to do handicrafts. The kids loved it and couldn't stop picking them up.

On the last wednesday of September we had our sightseeing 2.0 including the western part of Pécs. We went to see the old town boarder,  the "Big Horse",the town hall, the old Post, the Unesco world heritage and the different churches of the city, which was quite interesting since I know now where the churches are located that make up the german name of Pécs "Fünfkirchen".

In the evening we went to the Wine Fest for a second time to taste Langos and Kürtöskalacs (great typical hungarian food).
Some of the other evenings we spent in the bar/cafe Nappali, the CoulTourCafe, the Pecsi Est Disco and at home watching movies, reading or skyping.
Additionally we went to Tesco again to buy a Toaster. Now we can proudly say that the Toasty Flat owns its own Toaster :)

Since the 29th of September we have joined our hungarian lesson twice a week. Because the teacher speaks english and german we divided the volunteers in two groups: a german for most of the germans and an english one for the spanish, italians and some germans. During the first lessons we learned how to pronounce the hungarian alphabet. All in all there are 44 letters and by the way the hungarian language exists of around two dozens of cases..
As well we got to know how to present ourselves Kristina vagyok, how to greet somebody Szia / Sziasztok / Jó Napot / , how to say thanks Köszönöm / Köszi and and and és és és... I am looking forward to the following lessons to be able to speak hungarian as soon as possible.

Last wednesday we held a german evening in the YouthCenter Pepita. We (the german volunteers) made a presentation in german about Germany including general information, music, sights and the Oktoberfest since it just took place. We had a hungarian translator and have been surprised that it wasn't needed for everybody because most of the visitors understood german quite well. It was a nice evening and we had the chance to get an insight of the projects of the Center.

Yesterday I got myself a card in the library and stayed there for hours. The building is huge and as it was told to me the biggest one in Hungary. As well I was a little bit shopping, I cooked Risotto.
Today I baked Apple-Crumble-Muffins

and we have been on the sunday market. It is a really big market where you can buy actually everything!

Now it is dark already and I am still sitting on the balcony enjoying the fresh air.
Next week I will finally get a gym ticket and maybe I will find time to go swimming.
As well I found some nice cafes and places I want to visit.
But this is another story for another post.

Sziasztok!