The following blog post has been inspired by many friends/fellow YAGMs as birthdays have come and gone throughout this year. I thought I would join in the trend and offer this post: In order to celebrate my 24 years of life thus far, which was recently celebrated this past week, I want to share 24…
Weekend Trip to Szeged
Over this past weekend, I had the time and opportunity to visit a fellow YAGM at her site in Szeged, Hungary. The city is about 2 hours south of Budapest, to which I traveled via train. Though I have traveled a fair amount since being in Europe, including by train, this was my first solo…
Boldog Karácsonyt
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Budapest! December has been a wonderful month full of the excitement of Advent and the festivities surrounding the birth of Jesus. We have kept busy here in the Prőhle-Koranyi household. It is now New Year’s Eve which means a new year will be starting soon, full of surprises…
Playing Catch-up
I haven’t written a blog post in almost 2 months, and for those of you who keep up with my blog, I apologize. A handful of things have happened and I am happy to finally have the time and brain-space to write it out to you. This blog post will serve as a quick catch-up…
Wrapping up October
They said before we got here that some days we would feel as if time was going by SO SLOWLY and that other days, we would realize how fast time is going by. This month was full of days that felt like time was dragging by and I kept finding myself waiting in anticipation of…
Month 1: check
I can tell I have been here for a month in many different ways. I had to replace my monthly bus pass for the first time. I can actually get home from work without having to use Google Maps. And I had to come to the harsh realization that tennis shoes might not go with…
A sense of belonging
Since the last time I published a blog posting, I have experienced so much in such a short time! This past week has been exhilarating, sometimes frustrating, comforting, and (most of all) FUN. Every day of work is truly a new day and no day is like the others. I spent 2 days this week…
First week of many!
It has already been over a month since I left Las Cruces, NM. A month since I have gotten to hug my mom or hear my friends laugh. Wow! I am settling in to my new home for the year and have had a lot of time to think and reflect (especially when I got…
Falling into place
It has almost been a week since we arrived in Bodrogkeresztúr and over a week since landing in Hungary all together. It has been quite the roller coaster of emotions, but I wouldn’t ask for it any other way. All of the emotions have been felt: excited, homesick, anxious, loved, happy, frustrated, and everything in…
The First One!
As my departure date creeps closer and closer, I am setting up this blog to keep people involved in what I am doing in the coming year. Anyone who would like to follow along can and there is a button at the bottom of my page that allows you to subscribe to this page of…
Adventures in Budapest 