2011-12-21

Things I miss and will miss.

I am going back to America in two days! I am excited to be home, but also sad to be leaving Budapest. I decided to make two lists: one list of things I miss about America and another list of things I will miss about Budapest.

Things I miss about America:
  • Milkshakes.
  • Understanding what people say.
  • The tutoring center at my college.
  • Professors who are always available outside of class.
  • My friends and family.
  • Movies.
  • Going places without having to deal with copious amounts of smoking.
  • TGI Friday. This restaurant exists in Budapest, but it is ridiculously overpriced, even by American standards.
  • My college.
  • Free tap water at restaurants without even having to ask.
Things I will miss about Budapest:
  • The excellent-quality low-cost food.
  • The public transportation system.
  • The panini press that came with my apartment.
  • The colorful money.
  • Being able to go somewhere like Austria for a weekend, just on a whim.
  • My new friends.
  • The beauty and history all around the city.
  • Túró Rudi.
  • The thermal baths.
  • The palacsinta restaurant.
  • Goulash soup.
These aren't in any particular order, other than just the order in which I happened to think of them. Also, after writing this up, I noticed that there are a lot of food ones. I like food.

I have at least two more journal entries left. First, my Logic class. Second, some of the sights that I have seen around Budapest itself.

2 comments:

David Lynch said...

Are there not movies in Budapest? Surely you can rent them or use Netflix or youtube or megavideo or something?

But yeah, smoking is a thing.

Justin said...

I meant movie theaters. I'm sure there were movie theaters somewhere, but I never took the time to find one, and also I'm not sure if they would have had had movies in English.