A Day for Celebrating Women

Today is International Women's Day.

It's cool that being a female is worth celebration, and the whole city is offering all sorts of stuff to honor us.  Sweet.  In the Funzine (English language event guide), there are a bunch of advertisements for good deals in various restaurants and stuff.  Tonight, we will be taking advantage of this by eating out at Ring Cafe and Burger Bar.

Rhaelynn and I will be meeting at Nyugati at 4 to figure out the best way to get to the airport, because we leave for PARIS on Friday!  It's so exciting.  Last night, we spent over an hour planning out stuff we want to do.  Being under 26 in Europe is pretty much perfect, because so many things are free or discounted.  That's how we're getting into the Louve for free when we arrive Friday night, and that's how we're visiting Versailles on Sunday for a really good price.  That's awesome, because according to my guidebook, Paris is going to be mega-expensive.

It's almost hard to believe that I'm about to begin actually traveling Europe.  Strangely, I only have one full day in Budapest next week, because after that, I'm going to Romania.  We're buying train tickets for that tomorrow.

I don't really know what else I've got planned...I really ought to do homework, but right now I feel like actually studying is more of a cover story for traveling.  I do not feel scholarly right now.

Actually, I am I bit annoyed at some school-related things at the moment.  For instance, teachers here reschedule class when they have to cancel it.  This is strange to me, and it does not happen back on the main campus.  I don't think we should be required to attend class on a day/time outside of the schedule we signed up for.  Especially when it's a Friday that I'm going to be out of the country...  If it wasn't mandatory, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but since not going to a class that was not on the syllabus/schedule will count against me, I'm not too pleased.  Rant over.

Weather update: STILL FREEZING!  It's March.  We keep having little hints of Spring and then the weather gods take it away and then make it snow, which is their way of laughing in our shivering faces. I hope Paris will be warmer.