Arrival!

Ok, so I’m here, safe and sound. I don’t have internet access so this is a compilation of my adventures so far, I will just keep adding to this until I can post.
No one should ever let me get on a flight longer than 6 hours. Nap, have a snack, read, watch a movie, read some more…we must be there, right? No… we are over Milwaukee, nowhere near Amsterdam. The women I sat next to were Dutch, no English, although from a crude form of sign language I understood that they were in LA because the daughter was the head of her fan club for The Young and the Restless. No, I’m not kidding. They slept for 11 hours. Basically the flight was incredibly painful, except for the highlight of being served an “after dinner drink” that was quite nice. I could have used about 4. When I finally arrived in Budapest, the airline had lost mine, and about 30 of the other 35 passengers luggage. Needless to say, I was NOT happy. They however located it, and I did not have to resort to violence. I arrived at the dorm at about 7, it was incredibly ugly, very soviet, I finally lug my stuff upstairs to find a room about 2/3 the size of my single last year, which I am sharing. The hall was deserted, I was starving, my phone would not work, and I found out you must provide your own toilette paper. That was about when I broke down. But, I sucked it up, decided resist the urge to throw my phone out the 6th floor window, and after messing with it for about 15 minutes, voila! It worked. Ok, then dealt with food and toilette paper. Walked 3 blocks to the market, (market is generous) , and bought….bread, salami, and toilette paper... welcome to Hungary. The rest of the Americans came back, everyone seems super nice, and my roommate is very sweet. The city, from what little I’ve seen is beautiful, and I’m in a much better mood this morning. The only real issue we have encountered so far is the lack of shower curtains…it’s a coed floor, so needless to say, we’re working on that.
This trip is, if nothing else, quite an adventure. I don’t have any internet so to speak of therefore I am updating my blog when I can and trying to be cheerful about my Facebook withdrawal. I miss everyone a ton, but so far it still feels very vacation-like. We toured the city yesterday, it is so beautiful, saw Hero Square, Castle Hill, the main highlights and of course quite a few bridges. We also went to a club last night, they played “grease lighting” it was the highlight of my evening. Today we are doing a “scavenger hunt” across the city, but I think most of my team has hangovers, so it’s going to be a rather interesting experience.
Today one of the girls and I got ourselves intentionally lost and found our way around the eniter city! It was so fun, the city is just so different from anything I've ever seen, I'm certainly not disapointed. I'll update soon.