Turning Hungarian - Global Warming Last week it was very warm in Szarvas. Sunny and bright and looked like a September day. I asked at least five of the kids - Is this normal? And they said no. "Why is it so warm this week?" - And they answered, globális felmelegités (global warming). Classroom management was a MAJOR problem: voices were raised, kids were asked to leave the room (before minutes later being told, "OK, you can come back in - but please, no talking"), and diets got very broken.

In Hungary everything gets blamed on the weather. They don't share our concept of stress as it pertains to psychosomatic ailments. So a headache isn't from stress - it is from a warm or cold front coming in. You will hear that explanation every time someone has a headache. It is a totally different way of thinking and when you see it in action it's a shock. Similarly, they told us during the August Orientation that Alzheimer's or any sort of "syndrome" ( i.e. "middle child" was an example) is just attributed to someone's character. They don't have a word for a lot of the (vernacular or layman) medical terms we use!

So - because of global warming, me and two girlfriends (Eve and Lisa) were forced to blow some cash on a wine-tasting weekend in Eger. Enjoy the pictures (below)!