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Friday, April 18th, 2008
To be continued…
My six month party has ended.
Back to reality.
I have a long list of things to do.
I’m in debt up to my ears.
I need to go get a real job.
Need to go back to school.
I miss all my friends in Budapest, and all my friends from the tour.
I hope I can come back sometime soon.
This will […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Goodbye Budapest, for now…
Today is my last full day in Budapest, tomorrow I leave for London. I will be staying at a friends house in London, and bright and early Wednesday morning I leave on my tour of Western Europe. After my two week tour I will have one more night in London, then will be coming home […]
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Adulthood
Back home, I’ve always been friends with people either my age, or younger. Here, in Budapest, all my friends and co-workers are older then me, this has forced me to look at myself in a new way. Before, I would judge myself on my younger, often less mature friends. Here, I judge myself on older, […]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Almost at the end of line
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
National Holidays in Hungary
Whats is the national holiday like in Canada? Fireworks, Lame Stage Performances, some teenagers smash some things, but all in all a pretty dull holiday. What is the national holiday like in Hungary?
Rioters smashed cars, injured journalists and fought with police following a demonstration by the Hungarian Self-Defence Movement on Blaha Lujza tér Saturday evening.
Violence […]
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Soviet Pigeons
Hungarians pigeons are crazy. They have no fear, obviously they still have some Red in them. One of the Soviet Pigeons walked in front of me as I walking towards it today and it didn’t move out the way - I had to walk around it, I had to get out of the way of […]
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Europe and Human Rights
Every state in the European Union has a long history of war, revolution and development. However, as we all know, those who live it write history. Although it may seem as though Europe has moved into an era of peace and economic development, in truth, there is a hidden, dark layer, in European society, it […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Scott’s Top Five
Top 5 Reasons Budapest Is Better
A Long and Colourful History
All The Monuments, Church’s, and Buda Castle
More Pubs, Clubs, Cafes, and Restaraunts
Easy access to the rest of Europe
Significantly better Arts & Culture Scene
Top 5 Reasons Vancouver Is Better
My Own Long and Colourful History
The Pacific Ocean
The White Rock “Strip”, Stanley Park, […]
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Apparently I suck at shaking hands
I’ve been corrected twice now on separate occasions that I was shaking hands with people wrong.
1.) I often shake hands with my gloves on, which is rude, apparently.
2.) I often don’t give eye contact to the person I’m shaking hands with, which is also rude, apparently.
Well live and learn I guess?
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Canada Joke by a Turk
A joke about Canada as told to me by my Turkish friend:
“At the founding of the nation, they decided to draw letters out of a hat to make the name of country, a ‘Newfie’ was chosen to draw the letters, he read out: C eh? N eh? D eh? And thus Canada was born.”
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