Christmas time in Hungary:

well its hardly december but things are quickly changing to christmas time here, as i'm sure they are at home too! since we are in the city all morning every morning at language school we have had plenty oppurtunity to walk the city, hungarian school is going alright, we can tell it has helped us alot already but at some point most days i'm tempted to just get up and leave or take a swim in the river or something like that, but we are encouraged that we are making progress. anyways back to christmas, this picture here is taken in the outdoor christmas market here in budapest, filled with all sorts of interesting randomness, some really neat stuff i must confess. and thankfully no tacky christmas music! sorry to be a scrouge but i can only take so much of christmas music, by the way thanks mom for the christmas cd, knowing my aversion to it she kindly sent me a cd! my rule is from the 20th on is fair game but more than that is too much, tonight we had kids club again in ofalu, which suprisingly went quite smoothly. The kids are great and if the center was open everyday they would probably be there every day but they are also sometimes very diffucult so today was quite refreshing to have them attentive and just be able to have fun with them! here's a pic of a couple of them.