May 31 in Hungary is Pedagogus Nap (Teacher's Day). Often the students will bring flowers or bottles of wine to the teachers as a thank you for their service. It's kind of similar to Mother's Day for children.

Well this year, my school decided to give the teachers the day off from teaching. So we went into school at 8:00 am for a meeting that finished in less than an hour. After that we were free to play ping pong, chess, and some other games. The teachers worked together to make lunch for each other.


It's totally different than anything in California. They set up two fires outside and were cooking meat these pots. I couldn't imagine this back home. The fire department would come and shut the school down.