At home in Debrecen!

We have made it to Debrecen! We have a two bedroom flat in an old communist concrete building. It may not be the cutest part of town, but it is only a twenty minute walk from the main square. Ben jokes that he is waiting to see a dog with a hand in it's mouth walking around our apartment area. (This reference is from the movie Euro-Trip)

The first thing we did in our apartment was to unpack our luggage, it is wonderful being free of carrying it around everywhere. We then were invited to a dinner with some teacher friends from our language school. They cooked us a traditional hungarian meal over a camp fire. We had to end the party early because of rain. 

Yesterday, we toured around the city with another CETP teacher, Nancy. She has lived in Hungary before and this is her second time living in the country. She is able to speak and read hungarian-which is a huge help to us. Especially when we went to the store trying to figure out food items. We went to TESCO yesterday and bought some essential items like towels, a toaster, an iron, and hangers. 

As we were walking back from the store yesterday, we saw a hot air balloon take off  from the main square. 

The city square of Debrecen.

We are suppose to start school this week either, Wednesday or Thursday. They have what we would call a "slow start" to the school year. Hopefully we will get more information about exactly what we are teaching and when. The motto we keep hearing from our contacts is "this is the hungarian way" "you will find out soon enough"  etc, etc. So we are just going with the flow-this seems to be the way to do things here. 

We like our apartment, but there are obviously a few distinct differences between it and a place in the States. Such as drying our clothes on a clothes hanger in the bathroom. The toilets are also different in design- so that when you go number 2 you see everything on the "first level" of it and the water then pushes it down into the hole. Nothing like blogging your personal business for everyone to read! :) But nothing is off limits in this blog. :)

We will have internet soon in our apartment and hopefully can update more on a regular basis. We are currently blogging from a cafe in downtown with free WiFi. Once school starts we will have even more stories to tell.