Thursday, July 24, 2008
back @ home.
my last couple of days in MExico City were rather relaxing-boring. We took it really easy with Andy and Nina and at the end, with the Italians. Some walks to the nearby OXXO or Sandwich place, maximum the supermarket. Watching Californication or Weeds and...sitting around the table with others just doing nothing.
Then on Tuesday, we went to the airport with Chiqui, Carla and Antonin. Little reorganization was necessary to reduce my suitcases...and then check-in!!!! I dont know if the time will ever come, when i wont be running around the duty free shops with a huuuge handbag and laptop-bag and 3 pullovers, so that my suitcases are not overweight....
The 12 hour flight to Madrid was quite okay, semming that only every 5th seat was occupied. In Madrid i had to change flights to Vienna....MAdrid is fu+++++++g big airport, so i had to use the underground to get to my new gate....and after passing 5 check points....the sixth customs officer also wanted to open my backpack....so some tears helped me to keep on running to the gate...where i could reach my flight, because it was late.
1,5 hours late I was coming out the arrivals door in Vienna, already preparing my speech for my cousin who came to pick me up....anddddd...there were my friends, holding a big heart-DORI paper, and they were all wearing the same skirt!!!! Orsi, Kati, Fruzsi and MArti really surprised me!!!! And this was not the first one yesterday.
my last couple of days in MExico City were rather relaxing-boring. We took it really easy with Andy and Nina and at the end, with the Italians. Some walks to the nearby OXXO or Sandwich place, maximum the supermarket. Watching Californication or Weeds and...sitting around the table with others just doing nothing.
Then on Tuesday, we went to the airport with Chiqui, Carla and Antonin. Little reorganization was necessary to reduce my suitcases...and then check-in!!!! I dont know if the time will ever come, when i wont be running around the duty free shops with a huuuge handbag and laptop-bag and 3 pullovers, so that my suitcases are not overweight....
The 12 hour flight to Madrid was quite okay, semming that only every 5th seat was occupied. In Madrid i had to change flights to Vienna....MAdrid is fu+++++++g big airport, so i had to use the underground to get to my new gate....and after passing 5 check points....the sixth customs officer also wanted to open my backpack....so some tears helped me to keep on running to the gate...where i could reach my flight, because it was late.
1,5 hours late I was coming out the arrivals door in Vienna, already preparing my speech for my cousin who came to pick me up....anddddd...there were my friends, holding a big heart-DORI paper, and they were all wearing the same skirt!!!! Orsi, Kati, Fruzsi and MArti really surprised me!!!! And this was not the first one yesterday.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Cuba memories
so, as i have already said they dont really have anything in the shops and the Cubans look at the tourist as they were in a zoo. As if they have never seen any tourist.
We went to the oldest cigar factory in Havana, it costs 14 Dollars to get in!!! There the workers have to produce 140 cigars a day in eight hours, and only then can they get their salary. The director of the factory is talking all day on the radio, to motivate them, to work harder. It is incredible, she is screaming and cursing....awful. Though twice a day (once in the morning and once in the afternoon) they also get one hour of reading from a book, so their "education" is solved, too. Most of the workers are under 30, and 90 per cent of them only stay for 5-6 years, because the job is tough. It is hot, their desks and seats are rather uncomfortable and they are not able to talk to each other. Until a cigars is ready to be sold, more than 80 people have worked on it, that is why cigars are so expensive. The other reason for the high price is the production. They do not have more land to produce the plant for the cigars, but consumption is rising.
The smog is really bad,according to the high number of the old cars, and the humid and hot weather does not make it any better. This is why u end up having some greyish-black sweat lines on your t-shirts. I also have to say, they are not the most tourist friendly folks. Everywhere a tourist goes, they try to get the most money out of her. Taxis, food and entrance fees cost a fortune everywhere, and they do not accept any student ids. Internet is another question i would like to mention. Internet is only available in hotels or telepuntos, where everything is administrated. The fee for one hour is 4 Euros.
We went to the oldest cigar factory in Havana, it costs 14 Dollars to get in!!! There the workers have to produce 140 cigars a day in eight hours, and only then can they get their salary. The director of the factory is talking all day on the radio, to motivate them, to work harder. It is incredible, she is screaming and cursing....awful. Though twice a day (once in the morning and once in the afternoon) they also get one hour of reading from a book, so their "education" is solved, too. Most of the workers are under 30, and 90 per cent of them only stay for 5-6 years, because the job is tough. It is hot, their desks and seats are rather uncomfortable and they are not able to talk to each other. Until a cigars is ready to be sold, more than 80 people have worked on it, that is why cigars are so expensive. The other reason for the high price is the production. They do not have more land to produce the plant for the cigars, but consumption is rising.
The smog is really bad,according to the high number of the old cars, and the humid and hot weather does not make it any better. This is why u end up having some greyish-black sweat lines on your t-shirts. I also have to say, they are not the most tourist friendly folks. Everywhere a tourist goes, they try to get the most money out of her. Taxis, food and entrance fees cost a fortune everywhere, and they do not accept any student ids. Internet is another question i would like to mention. Internet is only available in hotels or telepuntos, where everything is administrated. The fee for one hour is 4 Euros.
hello again
safely returned from Cuba and Yucatan, in Mexico D.F. again, with Andy and Nina!!!
Cuba was incredible, so different, amazing, and also sad.
The people almost have nothing...I have talked to many people, a taxi driver, for example, told me, they were only waiting for Fidel and Raul to die, and then things will change. He al so told me, it was not communism, but fidelism.
Many families are living altogether in the same apartment, grandparents, parents and children, coz the government does not builds new apartments, and even if the people had the money to "buy" it, they need to get a permission to have another apartment. And they dont they dont own the apartments, they are just using it.
In many high schools, there are not teachers, just one, who prepares a viedotape, and the students watch it in the classroom...
Cuba was incredible, so different, amazing, and also sad.
The people almost have nothing...I have talked to many people, a taxi driver, for example, told me, they were only waiting for Fidel and Raul to die, and then things will change. He al so told me, it was not communism, but fidelism.
Many families are living altogether in the same apartment, grandparents, parents and children, coz the government does not builds new apartments, and even if the people had the money to "buy" it, they need to get a permission to have another apartment. And they dont they dont own the apartments, they are just using it.
In many high schools, there are not teachers, just one, who prepares a viedotape, and the students watch it in the classroom...
Sunday, June 22, 2008
and....we r back!!!
sorry guys, that i have been writing in Hungarian recently, promise won't happen in the near future again!!! i hope i still have some readers, although a blog is not mainly written for readers....i disagree with that, but who knows..
i really should be studying now, as exams are coming, but the only i can think about is Yucatan and Cuba!!! and yesterday we went again to our Mexican friend's, Saul's place, where there is a swimming on the top of his building with an amazing view of Mexico City's downtown!!! we needed some relaxation beacuse of all the hard work!!!
Just to remind u, Budapest Reunion is coming, and u should all book the tickets for September, to be more precise, the second weekend of September!!!! Everybody is more than welcome!!! More information will be posted on facebook!!
and this is especially for emil and chritoph, the major-late-flight-bookers!!! - please book the flight!
besos
i really should be studying now, as exams are coming, but the only i can think about is Yucatan and Cuba!!! and yesterday we went again to our Mexican friend's, Saul's place, where there is a swimming on the top of his building with an amazing view of Mexico City's downtown!!! we needed some relaxation beacuse of all the hard work!!!
Just to remind u, Budapest Reunion is coming, and u should all book the tickets for September, to be more precise, the second weekend of September!!!! Everybody is more than welcome!!! More information will be posted on facebook!!
and this is especially for emil and chritoph, the major-late-flight-bookers!!! - please book the flight!
besos
Monday, June 9, 2008
Boldog szuletesnapot Nusser!
Avagy Alles gute zum Geburtstag, Feliz Cumple!!!
Nemsokara kezdodik a visszszamlalas, es az ut hazafele. De elobb meg Guatemala, Yucatan felsziget es Kuba!!!!! Allitolag Kubaban vannak a leggyonyorubb strandok.
Sajnos elott meg var ram ket vizsga.....es a bucsuzas sok mindenkitol, mostanra mar csak 5en maradtunk a hazban a 24bol. Jovo heten jonnek uj emberkek, de persze az mar nem lesz ugyanaz. Kicsit lelassult, lenyugodott az elet.
Es hihetelen, de sajnos, ha az ember elkezd utazni,a kkor sose akarja abbahagyni! Mar megint legalabb egy evre valo utazasi tervekkel vagyok tele, de szerencsere annyi elonnyel, hogy minden tervbe vett varosban van baratocskam.
Kitartas a vizsgakhoz!!!!
Nemsokara kezdodik a visszszamlalas, es az ut hazafele. De elobb meg Guatemala, Yucatan felsziget es Kuba!!!!! Allitolag Kubaban vannak a leggyonyorubb strandok.
Sajnos elott meg var ram ket vizsga.....es a bucsuzas sok mindenkitol, mostanra mar csak 5en maradtunk a hazban a 24bol. Jovo heten jonnek uj emberkek, de persze az mar nem lesz ugyanaz. Kicsit lelassult, lenyugodott az elet.
Es hihetelen, de sajnos, ha az ember elkezd utazni,a kkor sose akarja abbahagyni! Mar megint legalabb egy evre valo utazasi tervekkel vagyok tele, de szerencsere annyi elonnyel, hogy minden tervbe vett varosban van baratocskam.
Kitartas a vizsgakhoz!!!!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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