Saturday, April 23, 2011

Europe, I am just that into you.

For all you who maybe haven’t heard yet, I have decided to stay one more year in Europe.

Instead of coming home this fall I am going to come home for Christmas and see each and every one of you and all the offspring you’ve created while I was away or that have grown into medium sized children. Then I will be back in Europe until the fall of 2012.

You've got another year to come visit me.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Polish - So Funny Right Now.

The term "polish plumber" was being thrown around France as a symbol of cheap labour coming from Central/Eastern Europe a few years ago. The Polish tourism board took offence and ran this media campaign to encourage French tourism in Poland.

Translation-ish: I am staying in Poland, do come over in numbers

In my opinion - hilarious.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Land of Rye Bread and Salmiakki


My job has become very job like the past month and a half or so. This leads me to fall behind on other such things such as blogging. I think that’s ok though – the ten people who read this have probably realised by now that this is rarely updated with any exciting stories or embarrassing moments.

I took a very swanky KLM flight to Helsinki. There were sandwiches and chocolate bars and I didn’t have to wait in a low-cost flight, cattle call for a seat. I thought I was in luxury but I was seated behind first class so I could see their glass cups of high quality beverages and English newspapers. My jealousy could not been evaded by the silly curtain that divided us.

For all you fans of weather trends I left a very sunny 19° C in Budapest for the -5° C in Finland. I had to pack a winter coat and mittens. We all laughed when someone at work suggested that a summer camp in the Finnish country-side at the end of March was a bad idea. We should have listened.

Helsinki was full of expensive food, snow, and incredible wind. I spent too much money on duty-free Finnish alcohol, a key chain, and a teeny purse from Maimekko. The rest of Finland that I saw had a lot of rocks and trees. It was very much like Jasper - minus the mountains and elk walking through the town. Our conference venue had a sauna so we did the roll in the snow after roasting in a 90 degrees ritual - Neat!

-So creepy! I like it!


-Retro Ladies.


-Under no circumstance were Yorkies allowed.


-Also creepy.


-Note the ice.

I came back to Budapest only to find that spring had disappeared and been replaced by chilly weather and wind that makes biking to work incredibly aggravating.

My parents, Piebs and Neta, arrive this week... Can you imagine all the high-jinx that will ensue?