Week 6: October 11th - 17th

Tuesday 1999-10-12

Silent. Nakki got his motor cycle after "unexpected" bureaucracy delays. I read a lot, ate too little and was depressed.

Wednesday 1999-10-13

The OS lab was useless again. I think I'll go to the Hungarian lecture instead next week. I walked hit och dit in the city and succeeded to buy a sleeping bag.

Fabiola and Juan were having Guatemalan national food, bean paste. It looks like mämmi / shit, but tastes good (beans). In the evening a huge company of us spent time in Darsha. It's a bar and some sort of Indian culture center. At least Eric, Rebecca, Remko, Jannes, Jarkko, Fabiola, Veronique and Franc were there. I talked with Franc. He's a Frenchman who has graduated as a composer in Helsinki, and is now writing his doctoral thesis and becoming architect in Oulu.

Hosszú kávé (long coffee) is surprisingly short, about half a cup. The cockroach population has huge variation between different rooms in Martos. Franc is suffering a serious cockroach invasion just two rooms next to mine. I don't even see one every day.

Thursday 1999-10-14

All the Martos washing machines are reserved all the time. Maybe tomorrow.

[National museum] The Culture Class visited the National Museum, Mrs. Gombos guided. Beautiful building, nothing surprising in the exhibition. Portraits of rulers, clothes, furniture, weapons, statues ans stuff. The 50's - 80's section was nice, the happiest barrack of the Soviet camp.

After the museum I had beer with Philip, Eric and Rebecca in Irish Cat. Philip had a date, and we others went to Acapulco, a Mexican restaurant. It was an expensive but good place. Iguana was cheaper and had more vegetarian dishes.

Friday 1999-10-15

Most of the washing machines are broken, there's no hope of getting a turn. I'll sleep in the sleeping bag until I'll get clean sheets (Wednesday) or can wash the dirty ones.

Mikko and J-P came from Germany. They had slept the first night on the train-yard in Sopron. Mikko had exceeded his credit limit. It's expensive in Germany. Anssi got the nickname Nümberg after misreading Nürnberg.

I read and surfed the net all day. The Martos computers have SSH => I can connect to TUT. Jarkko's family came to Budapest.

Saturday 1999-10-16

[The Royal palace] I visited the History of Budapest Museum on the Castle mountain. The elevator up on the west side of the mountain costed 10ft. The views and the castle are great. The castle has been built several times, alway on the top of the ruins of the previous version. A wonder that it's still standing. The old arches they have dug out are great.

I had a pizza at Marcello. I won't go again. The others were at Piia's place and in a disco at night. I studied Hungarian.

Sunday 1999-10-17

I had lunch with Janne and J-P in a Hungarian étterem near Moskva tér. The most expensive portions seem to be designed for herds of horses. The size makes no sense. And why must everything be always in breadcrumbs? The coffee was exceptionally good. Or not good, more like Finnish. Resembled the coffee of my work place that has been stagnant for hours (the coffee, not the work place).

In the evening I went jogging for the first time in weeks (~6.5km). I'd better start going regularly again. I subscribed to some cave trip on Tuesday.

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