Wow!! Here it is warm warm warm! 82! Almost to warm! ha ha but things are good. Last weekend on March 31 I went with the collage here to Slovenia hiking! Yahoo a new country for me! It was really pretty and was similar to the climate at home and that was a nice surprise! But it was wetter than in Colorado. Where we were was a very interesting place because we got to hike on the high top of the valley and then on the way back, in the valley next to the river! Next to the river we crossed lots of bridges and there were steps made into the rocks everywhere and it was very interesting and made it a lot more exciting! I had a really good time, and when I got home my family was waiting for me :) On Sunday the first we celebrated my grandpa's birthday and host sisters. Plus we kind of had last big meal/get together with me. It was really good to be with my family and wow I have really grown to love them :) My grandparents have even grown to love me and told me they were very sad that I am going and to always come back! Then on Tuesday one of my friends invited me to go to another pig killing! I was so happy
And excited! So remember when I went to Hajduhathaz, and met all of the cute old ladies, that then invited me to Tokaj to drink the wine, well one of them invited me to go to her pig killing. I got there in the morning around 9 and that is when the work started! I could not go to the killing because it was on the farm where the pig lived :( but then they brought the pig to the house and together we started working! We cut the pig just like in Romania but there was just five of us and that went that I got to do a lot of work! My favorite part was when we had to scrape all of the poop and stuff out the intestines and to make sure we did not rip them we had to blow them up like a balloon!
But also we did not have a machine that would stuff them with the meat and with the mixture of heart, liver, and these things we had to stuff it will our hands! This was amazing because I go to feel what everything felt like! There were also some differences because this was a family tradition to do right before Ester so they have good food. So after they killed the pig, they collected the blood you know, and before they started cutting the pig they made breakfast which was onion blood! It was really good :) ha ha and then for lunch we had fresh meat and fat cooked! It was so good. I am sure that I have never had better meat cause it was so fresh, just hour before this it was living!! wow :)
Plus when we made the blood horka, we did not cook it as much before we added the fat, and so it was more liquidly than before. It was really good. Then we cooked them and had them for dinner! It was very good! Plus it was a more traditional place because they used tradition pots, pans, and tools. Oh and we were in a very traditional little village. Everyone that walked my said good work! Good work! It was a really good feeling and I had a lot of fun! But then the next day, on Wednesday after school everyone moved. I really love my family and it was hard to say good by to them. But now I truly believe that I will go back and see them lots because they live really close to the school! When
I said good my host parents told me how proud they are of me and how much I have done this year! And my host brother would not let me go when I gave him a hug and told me I have to come back. We drove together to Hajduszoboszlo and wow it was so great to see my parents here too! They were so excited to see me and right away called me their baby and we talked talked talked. Now I have been here for two days and I feel so at home. I know it sounds funny but I know I am at home cause my host mom invited me to go shopping! And it was great cause I loving going grocery shopping with my mom back home! :) Things are going good here!
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