Lets go to St. Petersburg!

Nono, I'm not going to St. Petersburg... unfortunately! But I would like to guide you there, as I had the chance to go there last year, and now I got a postcard from there! 

FROM Russia

So yeah, I went to St. Petersburg in last March from Helsinki. By ferry we could go to Russia without visa for 3 days only. So why shouldn't I go to St. Petersburg? Not like always, this time I took a tour and I didn't plan anything - just some programmes which we could choose from. The package included the room on the ferry, the accommodation, the entrance to the Hermitage, a bus tour around the city... However, I chose more activities, like visiting the cathedrals, going to St. Catherine's Palace and... going with limusine :D All of them were good! In the beginning I regret buying a ticket to the limusin, I thought that my friend is going there too, so I booked a place, then she told me that she was not going there. Anyway, but eventually I found there others, so I enjoyed it really much. We drank a Russian champagne (it was free), and visited some cathedrals in the night time. I also experienced running in the central to find a toilet in a shirt only (commoon, it was March, around 0 Degrees). We laughed a lot and sang a lot. After the limusine tour we were dropped off at a night club, which was pretty good, they played even Evanescence :D And the bartenders (who were girls) were in short skirt and when they didn't need to fill any drink, they stood up onto the bar and started dancing - almost erotically. When we finished, we caught a private car, who offered to be a taxi driver for only us :D Okay, lets go, we were 4, he was alone, so nothing can happen with us hopefully :D And nothing happened. 

We stayed in Hotel Moscow and I enjoyed it quite much, mainly the all you can eat breakfast :D We ate a lot every morning, I wish I could do it again *.* They had everything, really everything. 

Unfortunately the additional activities weren't so cheap, so I didn't attend to all of them. There were possibilities to go to a Russian dinner, where they played music, games, and had Russian food, and there was ballet as well. They were quite expensive, the dinner was 30 Euros and the ballet was around 70 Euros if I remember right. 

The ferry was also pretty cool. In the evenings we played card games, and there were parties as well. To St. Petersburg I went to the party and an Italian guy stucked onto me :D The problem was his height, he was much shorter than me, so I didn't really want to be with him :D He was pretty drunk, so fortunately on the next day he didn't even remember me :D 

I really hope to get to St. Petersburg again in the future, as in my opinion 3 days are totally not enough for that city. It's really big and there are a lot to see. I loved the buildings quite much, it's not so expensive (comparing to Helsinki), though people are really bad at talking in English. For example I went to McDonald's and wanted to buy 2 cheese burgers, 1 big Cola and 1 middle French fries, then the girl took 2 McBurgers, 2 big French fries and 1 middle Cola :D Fortunately my friends knew some Russian, so they could explain what I want to get :D

School stuffs

So here is the postcard which I forgot to take home from Budapest. And lets see an additional, which is going to Poland, as my Disney postcard arrived to Germany. 

TO the USA

TO Poland

Both girls were interested in touristic postcards. For me this is the easiest I can send, as I realized that in Hungary there aren't so many places where we can buy normal postcards. When I went to Germany there were a lot of postcards on the streets, not only touristic, and cards for various events, but general, random postcards. I'm sure next time I'll buy a lot from there, though the price is quite high for me :/

I wrote both the girls that I'm really proud of Budapest because of these sights. My school is pretty close to them, actually, it's behind the Parliament, so I can see it every time when I go to school. At this moment school gives me a lot of stress, as during the last 3 months teachers didn't do anything with us, but now they started asking for presentations, assignments and there are a lot of exams to write. Fortunately I'm almost over. I have 6 courses in this semester, and I had exams in the previous week and... today :D Now I have to write an assignment for Thursday, then I'm off for a few weeks, when I need to do 2 exams - probably the hardest ones, as at one of the courses the teacher taught nothing, and the other one asked us to learn additional materials, as she didn't have time to talk about that. If I take everything, I'm done for this semester, and I can fly to the USA, yaay! In addition, this is my last semester (in BA) in the school, as my next step is to do a mandatory internship. Because of my American summer I cannot start it on time (July), so I decided to be a passive student. However, I would like to find an internship from September already and do it till June, and have it signed with school between February and June only. I would like to work in abroad again, so I applied for AIESEC organization, which helps me to find an internship abroad. I paid the programme fee last week, but my profile is not active yet. I saw quite many positions already where I would like to apply to, like Japan (6 positions), Malaysia, Ireland, Germany and Kenya. I feel that I'll need to apply for more positions than 10, last year I applied for 70 vacancies before I got my placement to India. I was also thinking about returning to India and do my internship there, but as my friend broke his promise and we don't talk anymore, I don't think that I should go back... :/ I'd rather experience something new :)    

Please cross your fingers for me. If you know a company which is looking for an intern and accept internationals, don't hesitate to write to me! :)

More cards than I expected!

I spent approximately a week away from home, and I got so many postcards! I though that I would get postcard after mine arrive to their places, but it seems not, as 8 of my postcards arrived to their destinations, but I have received 10 cards already. I guess for a while I won't get so many cards :( 

My Taiwanese card arrived, which was quite weird, as I sent it with cards to Belarus and Germany, and they haven't arrived yet... but the Taiwanese one did. Anyway, maybe during next week. So lets see the cards I got from abroad:

FROM the Netherlands

I really like this postcard. Amsterdam was never on my bucket list, though I was planning to go there in September or October with my Indian friend. It seems that he's not coming anymore, or at least not visiting me, so now I cancel this plan. However, after I saw this card I realized that I should visit it, at least because of the buildings. I really adore buildings and making pictures about them, so... One more destination added in Europe :)

FROM Hong Kong - Wong Tai Sin Temple

FROM Russia

The girl who sent to me the card taught a word to me too in Russian. She told me what spring is - vesna. She sent this postcard to me because this palace reminds her about tales from her childhood. Unfortunately she didn't mention the name of this place, there are only Russian charachters on the card :(

FROM Ukraine - Lviw

FROM Germany

Haha, I just love this owl! <3 The girl taught me the Bayerish goodbye, "Pfiat Di". 

I also have a postcard to send, but I forgot it in Budapest, and I haven't made a picture about it. So I'll write the post with that postcard a little bit later, maybe after Monday, as I'm having an exam then, so I won't spend so much time here on Sunday evening, when I'm back to Budapest. So Pfiat Di, see you later!

Gifts from Taiwan

Accidentally I missed one letter - firstly I didn't see the code for Postcrossing, so I didn't consider it to put here, but then I found the code, so I could registrate this postcard and now I'm writing a post and show you my really nice postcard and gifts. 

FROM Taiwan

Yes, I got an other card from Taiwan :D and not only a card, but a tea bag, a coffee, a card with some Taiwanese sweets on it (unfortunately it's in Mandarin, so I couldn't really read it, but yeah, I asked people to send me something in their own language, so... I should learn Mandarin!), and stamps. And the postcard is also really beautiful, it's glimmering! 

I tasted the tea already and... it was a little bit weird, but good. A few years back I got a tea bag from my Korean penpal, it was something like peanut tea :D Of course it wasn't a peanut, but it was something different than tea in Hungary. I haven't tasted it before. And I nor could read what kind of tea it was as it was in Korean :D I love these Asian gifts so much! I would really like to go there once and spend all my existing money on gifts only :D

First received postcards

Finally it was time to get the first postcards back! *.* After I returned back to Hungary from Germany, I found 4 nice incoming postcards from Postcrossing. Please have a look at them:

FROM Taiwan

FROM Japan

On the picture you can see the Kiyomizu Temple from Kyoto. I'd really like to go there, because I have a friend in Kyoto, who was an intern in India, in the same company like me. Above that I'm interested in the Japanese culture as well, and the cherry trees are really beautiful in bloosom during the spring *.*

The sender is from Kobe. 

FROM France

FROM Canada

This card was a surprise to me. I knew that in North America we can find a lot of cities named like other cities in Europe, but I never thought that once I'll get a postcard from one :D so now I got one from London, Canada :) By the way, I have been in Bristol before, in Connecticut, USA. :D The amusement park is there where we usually go with the summer camp.

So now I'm waiting for 3 other cards, which hopefully I'll receive soon :)  

Back to Hungary

Aaand, here I am! As I thought many of my postcards reach their destination, so I could ask for more addresses, wohoo! Actually, after I wrote my last post one of my postcard was registered, and I asked for a new address immediately. Unfortunately I was so lazy and a little bit busy with packing to Germany that I didn't want to write a new post about that. Instead I write now, and I include all the postcards I'm about to send in these times. 

TO France 

The girl was looking for pictures from nature, so I decided to send her this one. This place is located in Szigliget, in Hungary, which is one of the most beautiful place in Hungary in my opinion. There is a big forest where you can walk a lot and of course you can find this small waterfalls, but probably the biggest and most beautiful one in Hungary. 

TO Taiwan

The girl likes getting postcards about stadiums. I was in Hamburg, in Miniatur Wunderland, where I could find this postcard for her. I guess in Hungary it would be a little bit hard to find a postcard with a stadium on it, but there I could find it fortunately :D By the way, Miniatur Wunderland was really beautiful, it had more countries in small: Austria, Switzerland, USA, Germany, Scandinavia... and they are about to make the Italy session. There were a lot of model trains and even a model airport with taking off and landing planes. They were made with a lot of details. There was a brochure which included some funny things we can find anywhere in the grounds, like a couple who are making love, "visitor of Santa", where a snowman comes out from the toilet and Santa is next to it... etc. Unfortunately I couldn't check these as I had a meeting with a girl from Couch Surfing, but maybe next time I'll go back and check everything :D Of course if Italy sessions is done.  

TO Germany

The woman loves Disney, so I sent this postcard. I love it too, my favourites are the Lion King and Pocahontas, but I find Brother Bear also really cute. You must know that my natural hair is blonde and curly. So, when I was young, around 5 years old, I always wanted the hairdresser to make me a hair like Pocahontas has :D I was always very sad when she told me that it's impossible. 

TO Russia

The Russian girl would like to get some animal postcards - look at that cute penguin! :) In this nice weather I shouldn't send any postcards with snow on it, but anyway! :D 

TO Hong Kong

Last, but not least, my 5th postcard is going to Hong Kong. The girl likes music, so I send this art from Sándor Bihari. I like music as well, and in elementary school I used to play the recorder and the clarinet! I really miss them, though I preferred playing the recorder than clarinet. 

Missing Miami

A new postcard arriveed to its place - the German one, as I expected :D So I asked for a new address, and I got a girl from Belarus! Unfortunately in Budapest I was out of nice postcards, so I decided to wait till coming home and look for a postcard from my collection. I found this. 

TO Belarus

The girl asked for a postcard which has sea or sunset on it. I found this postcard and decided to send this for her. To be honest I have no idea what story I could write to this postcard, as my last post was also about the USA, so I won't start writing about it again :D But yeah, I have to admit that I really miss this city, though it was pretty hot and I got a horrible sunburn on the last day. Of course I used suncream in every 15 minutes, but it seems that wasn't enough for my body :D By the end of the day I became a lobster :D and I had so bad pains :'( Hopefully I won't experience this in Hawaii, but I guess my hope is just nothing :D I'm not so sure about that I will use the suncream in every 15 minutes for 2 weeks, while I am there, but lets see :D

Ohhoo, and I'll never forget that bad public transportation, where buses never say which station is the next and we got lost with my friend, went to out of the city and needed to wait for 2 hours till we could go back to Miami :D Now, if I think about it, I find it really funny, but in that moment it was very annoying. 

Unfortunately I have no clue when I can write next time. I'm going to Hamburg and Bremen, Germany on Tuesday, and I return only on 19th April. I hope by that time all my postcards will be delivered and I'll get some in return as well :) 

Happy Easter for everyone, and see you again after 19th April! :)