After staying late at the university to do some internetting, I finally headed home around 8:30 or 9:00. The university is always depressing at night because most of the students are gone and its eerily quiet and rather dark. So I climbed on the tram in rather low spirits as a result.
Whenever I take the tram I always try to sit on which ever side I’m going in the direction of, so the front of the car, and I prefer to be facing ahead of me and I like to sit on the river side. Considering my very specific preferences, I took a seat that was relatively close to another man on the tram who was being rather loud, and singing, and whom I normally would have avoided, but I wanted that seat.
Eventually, he and his female companion began speaking and I realized that the weren’t Hungarian. Well, to be honest, their behavior and attire had given them away before that but I wasn’t sure what language they spoke.
I overheard them speaking about where the Gellert baths are and since I actually knew this one, I pointed it out to them. They remarked on its size and it explained it was a hotel too. From there we entered a very nice conversation as I told them about my study abroad project and they told me about their European travels. After mentioning that they were worried they couldn’t go to Romanian without a special visa since they were New Zealanders I suggested that they look up the Romanian consulate and see if there was anything they could do (I’d picked up on this due to Arnab’s travel restrictions). Hopefully I was able to help out! There were leaving Budapest in a few days and from Romania were set to go to Istanbul—sounds like a wonderful trip! I home they got home safely.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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