Gyorsan megy a napok

Ahh!! Do not say already that it is the 24th of February! I do not believe. Last week, on the 14th, I moved families.  Right now my host parents are traveling to South America where they are spending a month traveling with their son who is an exchange student in Argentina. Rotary told me that I need to have a new family for this month, and found me a new family. My new family has four kids and one of them was an exchange student in Taiwan last year. I have a brother and sister that go to collage in Budapest and two brothers who live at home who are 19 years old and 10. It has been one week and a half and I already feel at home! It is so interesting because when I moved families for the

first time it was so so hard but this was rather easy
And I fit right in. It seems like I am always playing games with my little brother and we are always joking around. I am also teaching him english and helping him with his english homework. My mom does not work and is always at home :) and my host dad has a company and is often working. Things are going by so fast and unfortunately I just had to get my plane tickets home :( and am leaving July 15.... So anyway today we did not have school so I invited two of my friends over and we cooked cooked cooked!! My friend Laura who is in the middle of the picture here, is going to Mexico next year as an exchange student. My friends had never had Mexico food before, so I decided we

Would cook some! We made chicken enchiladas! It was a lot of work because we do not have a lot of the sauces that we do in America so first we made chicken soup and then enchilada sauces. But if we were going to be making everything from scratch that means the tortilla too!! I had never made any of these things before and here we had different measurements so it was a big experiment! But guess what! Everything worked out amazing and was super super yummy :)

To much excitement!

There is too much happening and I have too many pictures and so the picture sight that was holding my pictures will not hold anymore. So here is my new sight! check it out!!

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Today I'm a Dancing Queen!!

Who is that girl on the left?? MAGGIE!! No way!! Yes, that is me, I turned into a princess on Saturday, February 11! On Friday, after school I went with my friend Fanni to her house. We had a sleep over and had lots of fun :) She lives in a tiny village with only 1000 people. I loved it because the houses were all built in the 1930s and the people of the village still live in them! On Saturday we spent the day  getting ready for our schools ball! We painted our nails and then after lunch went to her mom's salon. They surprised my with a beautiful mask, necklace, earrings, ring, and purse. Her mom is a hair dresser and did our hair. No one, or even I have not spent more time doing my hair, but all the

Hard work payed off! Then they had a make up lady come and do our make up! I could not believe how different I looked! But not only I was surprised but all night people had to ask who I was! We had dinner before we went but there was food at the ball for us to snack on through out the night. Good thing because we got hungry dancing so much! I had the best time ever and it was so funny to feel like apart of my school and community!

Skiing Queen!

Austria is my kind of place!! So on Friday, January 27, after school I went to who will be my third families house. (This day was also my moms birthday!! Happy birthday mom :) I love you) We packed everything up and the on Saturday got an early start driving to Austria! After seven hours of driving we got to our hotel. We stayed in a cute little hotel, that was more like an apartment, family hotel. We stayed in a little village called Gröbming which was about 15 minutes from the ski resort Schladming where we skied. Where we were skiing was a big resort that included 7 ski mountains, one ski glacier, more than 80 ski lifts and more than 40 cabins to eat and warm up in! It

Was such a beautiful place and they had everything wonderfully organized for the guests! So they had fast chair lifts, with bubbles if the weather was bad, lots of gondolas, and even chairlifts with padding and heating in the seats! It was like I was royalty! We skied for five days, with two other families. We were a big group of 6 adults and 5 kids. One of the kids will be my next host sister and she was very cute! This ski resort had four mountains that you could ski two and from, in the same day! But all together the four mountains were not as big as vail and did not have as good of terrain. Here everyone pretty much skied on the ski runs, similar to in Italy. But I saw tracks of people that went in

The trees and off of the groomed runs. On one of the ski runs there was a sign that said where all of the world cups had been. There were two places that said that Vail and Beaver Creek held the races and I was proud to say that I live there!! Through out the week I skied pretty much on every run! Every day after lunch I eat of the my new favorite sweet which is called goz gomboc, which is an Austrian specialty. On Friday I was sad to go home, but luckily when I arrived home it felt amazing to be back with my family! :) I missed them and they even said they truly missed me!

BUDAPEST!

:) On Monday, January 23 my host sister Zita, her friend and I went by train to Budapest! I was super excited and could not sit still the whole train ride! When we arrived we had some take out chines food, which was completely different from the chines food at home! There was no rice to eat the the chines with and they only offer chicken! Also no fortune cookies :( ha ha. Then we started the big tour around the city. We started at the Parliament which is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. We went on an english tour, and I learned a lot! Then we went across the Lanc Hid which is the oldest bridge in Budapest. We went from Pest to Buda and went up to the Castle!

It was amazing because there was like a little village of buildings around the castle and I had fun imagining what it was like long ago!! Soon it became dark and went to the Szabadság Szobor which is like the statue of liberty but here in Hungary. From there we watched the city glow! Since it was dark, all the lights of the city turned on and it was so beautiful! Standing out side we froze and went into a cute cafe or coffee place and warmed up. Then went to my families little apartment in Pest where we spend the night. On Tuesday we went to a bakery, got treats for breakfast and then started the day touring Pest. We went the the other castle, walked around the center,

St Stephen Basilica (the biggest church), the opera house, Heroes' square, and Margitsziget (the island). For lunch we eat at a Turkish restaurant and had gyros which is so different from at home. They have this big tall spinning piece of meat that is next to an oven that cooks it. Then when you order it they cut of pieces and put it in a tortilla with veggies and sauce and it was really good! At night we traveled back home. I had an amazing trip traveling the city and learning about all the important parts of this old but gorgeous city. I can tell you first hand that it is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and I normally do not think cities are beautiful. I am planning on going back in the summer when we can picnic on the island, go to the museums and see the zoo! It was also a great trip because it was a great way to get to know my new sister and was a great bonding experience!!