Travel Diary - Sherry

End of the second camp that I was taking care of. This was a group of students from a British boarding school. It is actually pretty nice to have children that can speak proper English and can fully understand that what I was saying. Its a pretty fun bunch as compared to the others.

The weather this week has been crazy. It was fine at first, but it is turning colder and colder, especially when it rains. I am still trying to get use to the Hungarian food here but its really weird as they usually have dessert for dinner.

Anyway, the school has been really nice and gave us a week break off from work. (Not that we have much to do). So yayyyy, things are not confirm, but I might be going to go meet Valerie in Prague as she is here on an exchange. Then visit some countries around Prague that I didn't manage to visit previously. Or even visit some other cities if possible.

Otherwise, I will just stay in Hungary and tour around the cities here. :)



Also, over the last weekends, we managed to hang out with my trainee buddy, Tunde. She's very nice and have took us around places for 2 days. Really grateful for her bring around.

We also got caught by the person in the Metro for something we didn't expect for. Apparently, we are not allow to get student tickets even if we have the international student cards. We almost got fine 8000HUF, but luckily, Tunde came to help us and told us that the Metro is really strict and we shouldn't take the Metro. It was a messed and the guy didn't want to return me my student card but did after anyway, But everything was settled after 2 hours. It was ridiculous. Everyone thought it was.

I haven't post for a long time. This post will be about Vienna and also my first week in CP.

Vienna was very different from the other cities, it is closer to home. The structure and how everything looks like. There was also asian food. Everyone was so happy with the asian food existence.

We stayed at this hotel call Hotel Congress. It was pretty goodt, other than the fact that it is beside the road, which is very noisy and also the weather. Otherwise, it is not too bad for the price. It is just opposite of the main train station which was the best thing ever as our luggages are mad ass heavy.

As we were there over the weekends, shops are closed on Sunday, which bring us to very little time in Vienna. But, we get to catch the Mozart Concert Orchestra which was good. No regrets going. I think the show would be much better if the people in the front row in front of us weren't talking, eating and continuously taking pictures, constantly blocking our view.








I managed to get some music books off Vienna at much better prices than I would have gotten them in Singapore, which was a good deal. But the weight is..... Oh well, I think my luggage will be able to handle it. (I have 30kg)

The train from Vienna to Budapest was delayed for about 1.5hrs which lead us to reaching the camp site pretty late.

I stayed in one of the yurts in the camp, sleeping together with the rest. It was pretty cosy, other than the fact that there were many spiders in it. It was breeding, and it is still now as I am writing this post. The good thing is that we managed to each get a shelf to put our clothes/ any other thing. Also, the electricity in the room is up and running. So we do have a room light now to use and see in the dark. No more dim torch lights. Yay!

I remembered how on the first night we arrived, we were provided with a thin blanket and all of us were shivering so badly from the cold and I requested for one more blanket to keep warm as I really really do not want to fall sick.

Week 1 in camp has been alright. Life here in Budapest is so different as compared back home. Life move in a slower pace. Children here are lovely and adorable. They took a longer time to actually warm up to me as they couldn't really speak English (especially the little kids).

I have also told myself to try to learn one Hungarian word a day to be able to understand them better slowly. Also, am trying hard to get use to the food here as they usually have dessert for dinner. (Like today, porridge with chocolate powder). Lunch are all fine and good so far.

Slowly getting used to the life here and how things are run here. Made some new friends too. They were so nice in bringing us around the city area. Also, in helping us out in our daily necessities (train passes, sim cards and supermarkets)


PS. I will upload photos of the camp site when I manage to take some photos :D

This trip, I have met up with a few people and had come to realize that not everyone is street smart or observant about their surroundings to what’s happening. There are so many people with different upbringing and ways of thinking. Sometimes, I don’t know if I should sympathized with, or just be annoyed with. I have picked up a lot from this trip and I hope everyone does too. It is really a time to be independent and not rely on anyone. Hopefully, I can be even more independent and deal with people and problems efficiently and effectively.