Today as I was coming home from school, I had a hard time stopping the tears from falling. It's so ironic to me, I think back about 19 months and I was doing the same thing. The only difference is then I was crying because I missed my family immensely. This time I'm crying because I only have two more days at my school. All these relationships that I have formed over the past two years (different from relationships in the states) are soon coming to an end. I know I can still keep in touch with many people. Although, there are some, who barely speak English, that I can communicate with face to face, once we loose that proximity, I think the relationship will be almost impossible to keep. These are people that I have grown to love and I will miss them more than I can say.

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.