I write blog posts?

I can't believe I did it.

Besides the fact that there are many who want to know what the heck I am doing on the other side of the world, and the fact that many of them would kill me if I didn't make this, I was ready to set sail on my Hungarian experience---blogless.

But then I was thinking...that's a little selfish.  I mean, someone thought up the idea to have this thing where you can share your life through the written word, a virtual diary let us say, what a beautiful thing, and I have such an aversion to it. Maybe part of that is because so many people that I know from college have blogs and it sort of became a fad thing and if you know me well I never align myself with fads unless it has to do with fashion, and then I will just tell you I thought of it first.  I think the biggest part of my avoidance of making this blog is that I feel I am not worthy enough to have one. Whatever that means.

I am not a true blog follower myself, but I have read enough of a couple to understand how incredible they can be. KissesFromKatie is one blog that has impacted people all over the world that a girl I went to elemetary and middle school with in Tennessee has been writing for a while now about her life in Africa after adopting several (and when I say several it is because I am not sure the actual number currently but I think it is over 10) children.

Mo(u)rning Restoration is another blog that is quite dear to me, my good college friend EA has been writing this for a year about her recovery from an eating disorder. Too much of me has trouble reading such important and well-written experiences like Katie and EA's and feeling like I have something compareable to address. Instead I feel like I do not have a place here, that I am not as gifted, that my experience isn't worth a blog.

Lies, lies, lies.

(Wow that word looks funny pluralized and written that many times.)  I have known since November that I would be traveling to Europe to teach English and tell people about Jesus. In January, I was asked to go to Hungary since I had no country preference when I applied (always go with the flow---you'll be happier for it). In April, I was told to wait to find out my city, school, and living placements.  And today I found out that I will be living in Miskolc, Hungary, which is a northeastern city---the fourth largest city in the country. I will be living there with a girl named Alyssa. We are part of a larger team of 10 people from Teach Overseas who will train together this July in California. Between the 10 of us we will live in three cities: Budapest, Miskolc, and Sarospatak. I will be teaching English at two schools---Frater Gyorgy Katolikus Gimnazium es Kolleguim and Zrinyi Ilona Gimnazium...try saying that five times fast :)

I have included some pictures of Miskolc and the schools below.

I may need some accountability to keep up with this...but here's my first ever post.

The city of Miskolc

Frater Gyorgy Katolikus Gimnazium es Kollegium



Zrinyi Ilona Gimnazium