And the story ends...

This Sunday I came back from Krakow finishing my 1.5 year spent abroad...
So many things happened that it would be impossible to summarize everything in one single post. Most of the things are collected in this blog anyway; however the most important is maybe missing...
During this 1.5 year I guess the most significant was to have so many VERY GOOD friends that are friends for life!! Even if they are on the other side of the world, it doesn't matter because they will be always part of the best period of my life. I think I cannot express enough thanks for that...

I hope to see all of you. And earlier or later I will, I know.

I gonna end this blog now, with this post, even if it's really sad, because finishing an adventure like this makes me truly sad. I hope you enjoyed to read my posts and to my dear friends: I wish to meet all of you again!!!

GVSU group picture from the orientation week - bowling session :P

 

 

ESN group picture from the integration camp (Poland)

Final Thesis

Farewell party...

Even though, I still have a week in Krakow, some people are about to leave the city... ESN organized a party for us in Zauek with free beers and pizza and many many people and good music... The very last party where most of the people were still presented all together, but after this, Erasmus life finishes...

Orsiiii we'll continue the party in Hungary :)

already a good day :)

Dear International Program Office,

I would like to inform you about the fact that Mrs Flora Gulyas from
the STAIR Programme has been awarded a 5.0 (very good) grade for my
Spring semester's International Trade subject.

I would be grateful if you could include this information in her study
documents.

Thank you!

Best regards

;)

Pluss, I officialy finished my final thesis today so I'll submit it to my advisor and then they can start the plagium check.

Warsaw

apparently, we were freezing :P

one of the main squares in the old town

castle on the lake (ice??)

Despite the cold weather and freezing all the time, the trip was successful and Warsaw is beautiful… Our travelling group was perfect and of course very international: Rabea (Germany), Valentina, Luis, Luis’s friend Beto (also from Mexico) and me.
Previously, almost everybody told us that Warsaw is an industrial city plus it was completely destroyed during WW2 (85% of the city…) but as a consequence, most of the buildings in the old city center were in an eminently good shape. The colorful houses and the Christmas lights highlighted the general perception.

purple christmas tree - almost february :D

We tried to look around and see as much as possible, so we went to a Park to see the Castle on the Lake, also Chopin’s statue that was a little bit abstract, walking around the old and the new city center, and visiting the Warsaw Uprising Museum! The most surprising part was the 3D cinema where we flew around Warsaw in 1945, after the bombardments. Of course, we ate many times and spent relatively a lot of time inside regarding the weather… Oh, and unfortunately, we “couldn’t buy” any public transportation ticket so that was free for us haha :DOh, and the funniest was definitely the change of guards at midnight :D

between exams

Hopefully I'm done with Int'l Transactions, if not, next week another chance to pass it...
Tomorrow Basic Law and Microec... not too bad :P

Good news: it's highly possible that next semester I'll come back for a weekend to play in the final games with the basketball team :D They'd pay the bus ticket for me :D We'll see but yes, I'd love it...:)

This weekend we might go to Wrocław and Warsaw with Orsi, Luis, Valentina, Luis's friend and Idonnowhoelse... I wanna use the time until I leave Poland because now I feel my international life is finishing for a while...

Waterpolo

another fantastic picture with Orsi :P

I really hope that Hungary and Serbia will play against each other in the final game this weekend :D
Nevertheless, we alo started to organize to watch the games at the weekend with Stefano (Italy) and Draga (Montenegro), I guess it gonna be a lot of fun :D

Concernig the recent news, I'm about to finish the semester, 1 exam tomorrow, I don't know about the rest yet (Microeconomics LOL), final thesis is almost done (waiting for Piotr...), another research paper is under improvement (in order to get 5), Int'l Management (or Strategic Management) is coming today...
Not too much left from this 1.5 year, next Monday I will apply for my courses in Debrecen, and in 3 weeks I'm going home...

UPDATE: Int'l Management = 5 :D

what a nice weekend :)

Propaganda

I was really glad that Hilda made it to Poland and visited me :) Being roommates in Debrecen we became really good friends and I was happy to host her for these 4 days!  Despite the fact that the bus got broken 10 km away from Krakko and they had to wait 4 hours on the highway, no other problems disturbed our time here. 

Without doubt, we had a lot of fun together: siteseeing, partying... We also had a '"Debrecen reunion meeting" with Iwona-Mikolaj-Agatha :D And yes, finally we made it Auschwitz, too.

Propaganda 2

Ohh the best story ever: Hilda and me had a drink in Propaganda, next to la Habana, and while we were waiting for the drinks, Hilda noticed that at the pub they're still using Pascal LOOOOL she took picture of that cause it was too surprising for her :P I was sooo laughing how much she's an IT girl :D

Nevertheless, now I have to start studying:

-          final thesis

Diva

-          SAP research paper

-          international management research

-          international trade

In addition, tests, exams, etc etc…

Also, we have to start planning our trip to the
Baltic states - or anywhere else - in February :D

when Timmo spent winter break in Budapest...:)

German Embassy

 First of all, I wish Happy New Year for everybody:D

in front of the Chain Bridge

My winterbreak with Timmo was amazing, I couldn't wish a better one:) It was eventful, foodful, beerful, and so on. :)
The pictures show just part of the places that we visited, we also went to Thália Theater (Miss Saigon), Morrison's (coctail discount), termal spa (Széchenyi), Balaton - travelling by a ferry from Tihany to Szárszó...

We met Zita and Laci in Andersen to drink some shots of Fény :D

Gellért-hegy

Also, we met Lex many times, and  celebrated together New Year Eve in the city center.
Climbed on the Gellért mountain, walked around Margaret Island accrossing several bridges...

New Year Eve with Lex

I have to say we almost visited every important places in Budapest so next time we have to explore other parts of the country!!!

the winterbreak has started

Results from last week:
Digital Economy:5
Controlling: 5 (It's a good story to tell :D)
Database Systems: 2 (almost 3 but I cannot complain)
SAP Applications: the required research paper is under completion :P

Timmo is comming TOMORROW!!!

And my "lebkuchen-haus" is also done, here is a picture

short goodbye

Today I say goodbye to Kraków for a short time cause I need to go home and take my exams...
In the last week I've done my presentation for Int'l. Civil & Commercial Law about Int'l Marriage (and divorce:P). It was really exciting especially that I put my favorite Marriage Proposal video in the middle of the pres. .

Meanwhile, I tried to prepare myself for the exams next week. We'll see how I'll perform them. The top of the next week will be my oral exam of databases LOOOL I cannot say I'm looking forward :P
Even though I'm kind of happy to go back to Hungary (this year I spend not more than 3 months all together home :P), I gonna miss Kraków and all of my friends a lot!!!! :)
See you in January!!

Emma and Martita - my crazy Spanish friends:)

trying rabbit hats on the market

Diva - dancing on the bar

In a nutshell:

Christmas Market

- arriving home from Kasia's birthday party at 1am, kind of taking care of Valentina and Draga and waiting for Emma and Martita
- the girls arrived at 4am because they missed their bus from Wroclaw because of a concert there :P
- after sleeping long, we visited the Wawel
- and ate in the Bar on Grodzka street that the girls loved soo much:)
- going out in the evening - la Habana!!!!! - Luis's apt - La Habana again but also with Samuel - party in Diva until 7am
- after sleeping really long, we went to eat to the hidden Babcia Malegnia and ordered way too much food :P But fortunately, we could ask for a plastic bag to take it
- visiting Iwonita :D and printing out Emma's airplane ticket. Also, Martita and Emma left the saved food at Iwona's...
- and even if it was sad, Emmita and Martita had to leave at 11pm to catch the plane in the morning from Wroclaw to Bergamo.
Such a crazy, spontaneous weekend:) next time in Asturias!!!!

in Cuba

retro

it was raining a bit

Spanish sandwich

some updates

First of all, the Christmas Market in Kraków is all setup, with Hungarian "kürtöskalács" (it's written in Hungarian!!) and "langosz" (written in Polish:P).

Today is our first official game with the university team. WE WON!!! I couldn't finish the game because I had 5 faults but it was okay for the last 3 minutes. We won with around 6-7 points so the reasult was close. I scored around 15 points, so I valuate myself successful haha :P I think it was a good game, next time on the 6th of December:) And thanks for Iwona and Kasia to come and cheer us!!!:)

So finally Emma and Martita are coming Friday, I'm excited, it will be so much fun for sure like all the time when we meet :P:P

My schedule so far...

6 Dec - Basketball game

9 Dec - Basketball game

11 Dec - going home

13 - 8am Databases exam (practice)
14 - 11am Kontrolling exam
(15 - Databases exam - if I fail on Tuesday)

16 - 9:45am Databases exam (theory - oral!!!)
19-23 Final Thesis, Research Paper for SAP, Int'l Management...

23 - Timmo is arriving :D

2 Jan - Timmo is leaving :(
4 Jan - going back to Kraków

5 Jan - Polish exam

6 Jan - Hilda and Jon are coming to visit me?? :D

etc,etc,ect,...

partying with my Polish friends...

...it's always lovely:) And responsible? :P

Iwonka, Kasia, Bear and me :)

Sunday - Plum Crumble

I made it. Alone :D I went to the sunday market only to buy plums cause I couldn't find them in the supermarket. Such a productive Sunday :)

butterflies

Also, today Iwona and me participated the Day of Museums in Kraków!! It was really really good and interesting. We went to
- Muzeum Zoologiczne : butterflies and shells
- Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego Collegium Maius : the building is astonishingly beautiful:)
- Muzeum Etnograficzne : Polish folk-art, lovely:)
- Apteka Pod Orlem : is about the pharmacist who helped the jews living in the ghetto

Collegium Maius

Hungarian street :)

- Podziemia Rynku - the underground museum, under the main square, the best!!!

some athletes and famous people donated their prices to the university

plans for February

Unfortunately, I cannot manage to go to Vilnius next weekend because of many school deadlines, forthcoming exams, final thesis, etc...
HOWEVER, due to the fact that I'll have only 2 exams in January and nothing to do in February, I'll make this trip for sure:) Moreover, I found really cheap traveling options!!!
So according to my plan...
Krakow - Warsaw -Vilnius - Riga - Tallin - Helsinki by boat OR Stocholm by plane - and coming back on the same way except that instead of Vilnius, I'd go to Kaunas (also in Lithuania).
We'll see, everything depends on budget and time:)
If you feel like to come with me, let me know ;)

Gdańsk and Sopot

where is the sea? right there:)

Solidarity museum - the entrance

our travelling group

Crooked House - unbalanced

Monument of Solidarity

I'm really glad that we made this trip to the other side of the country.. Despite the really long train way (15 hours) and some creepy guy, it was a perfect weekend:) 6 of us - Shane, Juliana, Shirley, Cory, Valentina and me - decided to travel together and I have to say, I really liked to travel with all of them:) Also, having an American, an Irish and a Canadian in our group was source of many funny moments and debates concerning English language :)

the world's wood longest pier

domino effect - Solidarity museum

We had so much fun... arriving to Gdańsk, Cory accidently stayed on the train so we had to wait for him until he got back with another train.. it was okay, cause we arrived there at 7am. Walking through the city reaching our hostel, we participated the current Independence Day! We got a lot of free stuff, balloons and windmills, and enjoyed the parade of old cars.

the pier from the old lightening house

Gdańsk is beautiful... completely different from Krakow, it's a mixture of Scottish, Polish and mainly German architecture. I know, originally it was Danzig, but still. I didn't expect that it gonna be so similar to Bremen... Walking in the fascinating old city center impressed all of us. I didn't know it before but the movement of Solidarity started in this city, so we saw a huge monument and also, the museum that made me think of those times in the past. In the evening we went to an Irish pub, where unfortunately couldn't drink cider beer, but a regular tyskie with syrup kinda compensated us. Moreover, some other (Northen) Irish guys in the pub were singing "interesting" Irish song :P

girls

it's soooo German :)

Sopot, the other city that we explored, is right next to Gdańsk, 17 minutes by train, and it was the city where we finally could enjoy the panorama of the see. The pier is the longest not only in Poland, but also in Europe (or the world?). We climbed the old lightening house, and took pictures of the strange house on the main street.

main street of Gdańsk

 Oh, and I have to mention our hostel that practically was a hotel :P We had 4 bed rooms, but the place was not crowded so we didn't have to share them with strangers. I've never stayed to a hostel like this that moreover was really cheap!

flower and Flora :)

Next trip? It seems we're going to Vilnius :D

first successes

welcome to Krakow

Today I ordered a pizza alone, in Polish :D Kasia and Iwona didn't help me (they couldn't anyway cause they were just keep laughing about me :P) and the pizza finally arrived so if anybody needs some help to order on phone in Polish, you're more than welcome to ask me haha :D

a cow on the car

Tomorrow (actually it's already today :P) Valentina, Cory, Shirley and I are leaving to Gdansk for 3 days!!!! It's going to be an exciting train-trip regarding the fact that it takes 15 hours to get there... whatever, we gonna sleep (or a bit study, too, in my case)

the view from Kopiec Krakusa

Here are some pictures from Kopiec Krausa that I loved so much :) I explored it when I had a lonely walk 2 days ago in Podgorze. Previously I was convinced that the whole district is scary but I have to admit that it’s completely not true.
So see you on Monday with the next post about Gdansk :)

Kopiec K. is from a distance

bridge for pedestrians and cyclists

Jumping...

...all the time, everywhere:)

in the airplane museum

in the park

at the top of koszciuski

in the Wawel

It's kinda hard to chose the best picture of the recent days cause there are soo many :) Most of them're already on facebook so I put here one more with all of us. Thank you for visiting me :)

Julien, our hero :D

 Okkay, finally I decided to post some exclusive photo on my blog but not on facebook :D Concerning my picture and the tree: I wanted to take a picture with Zita sitting on the tree but I had to realize I cannot come down and also, I cannot move away so Zita couldn't come up next to me...I guess she didn't even want it :P Also, suffering on the tree, a random turist took some pictures about me LOL it was more than embarrassing :D Hopefully he thought I'm just a crazy Polish girl :P The other picture with Julien...well, he was a hero and it's enough if WE know why :D

I have agoraphobia...

pretty girls

the general party pic w Orsi

typical

Orsi with strange face