Romaniaban vagyok!

I am writing from Romania!! So on last thursday my host mom drove me to a city called Nagyvarad which is in Romania, to spend a long week with the families friend. They have a son right now in Texas as an exchange student. But guess what... so you know they live in Romania but they are actually Hungarian! So because along time ago Hungary used to be really big, and then other countries took over the area, the hungarians stayed where they where they were living. So here a bunch of Hungarians live and they all still speak hungarian and live their hungarian lives! Ha ha and so half of the city is Romanians and the other half is Hungarians who speak hungarian and romanian!

I also learned that not only is this in Romania but this is also in lots of Hungarian's neighboring countries. So on Thursday my host mom drove me to Nagyvarad which is about one and half hours from Debrecen. In Nagyvarad lives her friends that invited me to spend a long weekend with them. They are a family of five, two parents, one son in the US right now, a daughter who is in 8th grade and a four year old daughter. On Friday I went to the disznotor that I wrote about in the previous post. Then on Friday night I went into town with Tekla the daughter and we hung out with her friends. It was really fun we just went and hung out in a cafe, and they said that is what they do here.

Then on Saturday we hung out all day at the house and then for dinner we went to their businesses party. That is why we made all of the food on Friday so that they would have fresh food for the party. They own 3 BMW car dealerships and have alot of money! After we had dinner and ate tepertu, kolbasz, and horka Tekla and I went bowling with one of her friends! On Sunday the whole family took me a cave about an hour and a half way. It was SO beautiful and there were so many different colors in it and so many different kinds of rock formations! On Monday I went to school with her... and wow!! So she actually goes to a Hungarian school, so everyone there speaks Hungarian but it is a Romanian school. So they have all of their classes in Hungarian but then at the end of the year when they take tests it is the sam test that the rest of the kids in the country takes in Romanian. Plus in school they learn Romanian and can speak it like they mother language. It was really fun to go to another school cause I really got to see and feel that everywhere in the world the schools are different! While i was there Tekla had an english class and when the teacher found out that I was from America she got really quite and told everyone in Hungarian that they can spend the class doing what ever and they will continue the next day. And the class told me that she I a very strict teacher and that she always speaks english only in the class and so we think she was afraid!! It was a really great long weekend and on Monday night I came back home to my loving family!!