Wednesday morning I had no class (again). But I didn't get to sleep in. I went to the immigration office bright and early, waking up before 7 in order to get there around the time it opened, 8:30. There were several of us who had issues with our forms and so needed to go back, but only one other person had her form signed by Wednesday. We made it to the immigration office and, as it was the day set aside for students and we weren't in a group of 30+ this time, were able to get out by around 9:30.
After a brief run to the nearby Tesco (a giant grocery store) in a failed attempt to find peanut butter (I had been told that peanut butter could be found in the international foods section of the store, but I was unable to find this section), we left the area. I returned to my apartment for a glorious 2-hour nap before I had class in afternoon.
My only class on Wednesday was Hungarian language, which was shortly afterwards split into two sections, one for beginners and one for intermediate. The intermediate class is composed of people who took the intensive language class, either this semester or last, and the beginner is designed for people who haven't had any Hungarian, but there are a fair amount of people who were in the intensive class who want to take it as well, as they don't think they're ready for the intermediate class. It will be very slow and uninteresting for them, then, because they start with the alphabet and pronunciation, but ah well.
The intermediate section started with a very brief review of pronunciation and numbers before moving onto animals and adjectives and various other words. It's a very cool language, I must say (as I've said many times). But the whole throwing on of syllables to change/add meanings...it's neat. Hard to wrap my head around, as an English speaker, but very cool. Class met for about 2.5 hours, with a brief break in the middle. It was long, but not too bad.
After the first couple weeks, we might split the intermediate class, into one that goes fast and one that goes slow. The fast one sounds like a lot of fun, with reading actual Hungarian (she said last semester they spent the entire time reading and going over a relatively long speech) and going into more detail about the grammar, as opposed to the slow one which will just read children's books and the like. Both would be valuable, but I feel like the faster one would be more interesting to me.
Afterwards, I met up with some other guys who were in the class to go play some Race for the Galaxy. It's enjoyable, and doesn't take quite as long as other, comparable games. It reminds me a little of Puerto Rico, though it's a science fiction card game instead of a historical board game.
After we played several games, we all went out for a late dinner at the Hummus Bar. I had the best (of the various ones I've tried) Middle Eastern food I've had here. It was a falafel plate, composed of falafel, hummus and pita. And it was very tasty, and reasonably filling. Also, ridiculously cheap. 1000 forints, or between 4 and 5 dollars, for a delicious meal. Probably the cheapest dinner I've gotten at a restaurant, which is a reasonably impressive feat.
Anyways, I then returned to my apartment and being lazy, didn't blog.
This was, it turns out, a mistake, as I now have much catching up to do, and suddenly...homework! I will try, though.