10.25.05

Eger

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So last weekend, we went to Eger and it was AWESOME!! Eger is an important historical town, but at least as important is the fact that it has some absolutely marvelous wines! I really like Hungarian wines. There are a lot of different varieties, but my current favorite is a kind of middle of the road, semisweet, semidry red wine. It’s kekfrankos and quite tasty. The merlot and cabernet souvignon are also good, but for some reason the kekfrankos really hits the spot for me. Eger is most famous for the bikaver, or bull’s blood, which is a combination of kekfrankos, merlot and cabernet souvignon. It’s good, too. I hadn’t had much for sweet wines before coming to hungary, but there are a few tasty sweet wines, too. Medina is good, but a bit too sweet for me, honestly. So enough about wine. Eger is beautiful! It’s a delightful old town with a pleasant city center and a host of beautiful buildings. There’s even a castle and a hot springs to top it all off! I just had an absolutely grand time and would highly recommend Eger the next time you’re in the region.

News

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The FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for as long as 18 months at a time without proper paperwork or oversight.(Washington Post)

10.19.05

The Play

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So, my parents are here, and last night we went to this crazy awesome play at the national theater. It was two british, who ended up lovers, but it was just absolutely hilarious and done really well. It was a grand old time. I hadn’t seen a good comedy in too long. The day before was fun, too. Patrick and I just sort of wandered around for 2-3 hours, got way too many pastries, got lost, good times. Today I went to the Szecsenyi (sic) bathes and that was fabulous. I can’t wait to take laura there in the winter because it is pretty majorly awesome! Yeah, been entertaining my parents a lot lately so I’ve been really busy. Last weekend, we went to Sopron, a little town in the northwest part of hungary. That was neat. It was just really really old. So yeah, that’s all the news that isn’t.

10.07.05

Philosophy of Language

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So, that was the class this week and I really don’t know what to say other than painfully, dreadfully, disgustingly boring. That was not so cool. On the upside, wednesday night was pretty fun. We met up with some of our hungarian friends and introduced them to american drinking games. It was a grand old time. We made them listen to american music and dance with us and it was just a blast.

Octoberfest

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So, Octoberfest was Amazing, capital ‘A’. Also, INTENSE, all caps, or at least the way we did it. We rode a bus all night long to get there at 8:30 and then left that night at 1 am. But wow. When we get there in the morning, there were people massed outside of all the beer tents waiting for them to open the doors at 9. I’ve never seen so many people that intensely excited for drinking beer at 9 am. Okay, so maybe we were a little excited too. Anyway, we couldn’t actually get a table inside a tent in the morning, so we sat outside for a while. Then, it started being awesome and didn’t stop for a really long time. After the first beer or two/hundred or so toasts, I decided I needed some apfelstrudel and I think that was undeniably the best decision I made all day. It was heavenly, warm and soft and moist with an incredibly succulent vanilla sauce on top. I’d had apfelstrudel before, but wow, that was friggin’ apfelstrudel. Then we drank some more, wandered around. I met so many really friendly drunk germans, it was fabulous. I did have one of the pretsels, not the piddly little ones like the other guys, but one of the huge monsters of a pretsel. Also fabulous. Oh, and some nuts that were kind of warm and chocolate coveredish. Also some bratwurst, excellent bratwurst. So that was fun, just wondering around, introducing myself to people, them realizing I’m an American and asking me immediately what I think of Bush, good stuff. We got split up for a while and it started to rain, so I sat under an umbrella and drank with some other cool germans. Later, somehow, I managed to get into one of the tents and that was just ridiculously AWESOME. Just, the biggest party ever, with obscene amounts of people singing and drinking and just having a grand old time. So yeah, good day.