Christmas Market

Today I went to the Christmas Market for the first time of the season. It was so beautiful. I love the Christmas Market. A bunch of ladies and I got together and walked among the stalls. Leslie got to come for the holidays so we did a bit of sightseeing.
AV- I had some yummy forralt bor and some yummy kurtos kalacs.

YEAH FOR CHRISTMAS and the ADVENT SEASON!!

Inspirations - Robbers

A friend in Prague did this on his blog and I thought it would be a good exercise for me :
Inspirations: (things which inspire me)
1. Freshly Brewed Starbucks Coffee and my journal
2. Walking along the Danube river from Batthany Ter-->Citadella
3. A really good conversation with one of my dear friends
4. My worship list on my cute nano
5. Having a complete conversation in Hungarian and not thinking about a word for tooo long
6. Watching my home church on the internet

Robbers:
1. Too much time on the internet-gmail, facebook, tvshows, blogs
2. Editing my pictures for fun
3. Not exercising to keep a fresh mind-stress free
4. Wondering what next year will look like
5. Thinking about the what-ifs

Dinner is cooking and I'm going to get off the internet for a little while!

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of my school, named after Sándor Kőrösi Csoma. Quick facts about this man:

1. He was born in Erdély (Transylvania) in 1784

2. He knew 16 languages.... but face the facts..his first language was the 3rd hardest in the world so its no hard task for him.

3. He travelled east in a quest to find Hungarian roots.

4. He was a linguist (like me)

5. He authored the first English-Tibetan Dictionary

6. My school was the first to be named after him.

Pretty cool huh :) I have a artist's rendition of the plaque made for our school and signed by the artist! It was a great day of our school and I was glad to be apart of it especially since I didn't have to teach!

Election Party

This pictures is in the National Newspaper Online..

Here I'm being interviewed for the Hungarian Public Radio. They asked me because I was a McCain supporter.

The American Chamber of Commerce put on an Election Party for anyone to come to. It was an amazing event where a bunch of my friends got togther, dressed up and had fun. There was all-American food (chicken nuggets, ribs, wings, coleslaw, potato salad, cheese cake, pumpkin pie, hot dogs, hamburgers..etc), all you can drink and live coverage of the Election.

We had a blast.. I'm sad to say that...I took pictures all night long but didn't realize there was no SD memory card..UGH. I don't have a LCD panel because its broken. So, I never knew. I took great pictures too...

Thankfully, my friend Viktor took pictures so there are a few of them which I can show you!

I'm so proud to be an American, no matter who the President is, God is in control, I trust him, and I know that he can use whomever he decideds to put in office. Yeah, it is not my first choice.. but I know that Obama will do a great job too. We need to support whoever goes to office.

I love the lines in this picture...this is at Millenaris Park in Buda. Its a great place to go and take fun pics. This was my favorite of the day.

Yummy Bread

Je voudrais un baguette. C'est un boulangerie?!! Mais non! C'est maison du Joanna. (don't critique the French errors...i just study Hungarian now)

While in Prague, Joanna gave me this french bread baking tool. I've never made bread so I thought..sure I'll take it and someday maybe I'll use it! Well, 2 hours and 45 min later these two beautiful baguettes came out of the oven and they are so delicious. Again, I've never made bread except for Banana bread and that is easy. This was fun but really time consuming. I will make it again someday but maybe not in the near future. I must say its better than any baguette I've found in Hungary.

My friend Stacey always posts on her blog about her great reciepe's so I decided that I should too!! Its a simple reciepe just be ready to spend lots of time on it!

My other friend Kelsea made eclairs..now I want to try to make those!

Bon Apetit!