Wednesday, Wednesday. Not much happened today, so this will be short.
There were no classes today. Instead, I woke up early and met up with pretty much everyone on the program at the university where math classes will be held. From there, we headed on over to the Hungarian immigration office, to try and get our residence permit taken care of. This involved, mainly, a lot of time waiting around, and a small amount of time filling out forms. Much bananagrams was played while waiting, and everything went relatively smoothly, except that one of my forms wasn't dated, so I need to get a new version of it that's properly signed and dated and then return it to the office in 10 days. This wouldn't be too big a deal except that the office is pretty much all the way across Budapest, which is very obnoxious. Ah well; I don't have much of a choice.
Afterwards, I simply returned to the apartment, ate lunch and relaxed.
I basically then decided I was too tired to do anything and so spent the rest of the day relaxing some more, cooked myself dinner and enjoyed my newly-purchased tea. I'm enjoying leeks. They are a tasty vegetable, and easily prepared. I've been steaming them, essentially, just throwing them in a pan that I have a little bit of hot oil in and then tossing in some vinegar and covering the pan. I'm not sure the oil is necessary (I've been throwing garlic and ginger in the oil and so giving it some flavor as well), so next time I'll try it in a hot dry pan. They have a nice meaty consistency and absorb flavors pretty well. They seem to be the most substantial fresh green vegetable I can find. Supposedly spinach has been found, both fresh and frozen, though I've yet to see it. I may need to venture to more exciting grocery stores. Something green I can throw in a pan, instead of eating raw like the arugula I have, would be very nice. Markets will be explored soon, in order to fix this.
There is also a festival this weekend, celebrating the mangalica, a special Hungarian breed of curly-haired pig, which sounds very exciting. It's free and consists largely of petting and eating pigs, as far as I can tell. So that's definitely happening.