The Hungarians are happy with us at the moment because as from yesterday, we officially signed up for another 12 months at the school. We are now gainfully employed until June 2012. This was a bit of a hard decision for us to make as we weren't sure if we wanted to spend an additional year in Mariápócs. It's not so much that we aren't having fun here, or that we are unhappy, it's more that we really only want to be away from home for three years and to stay in this small country town in western Europe for two of those years might not be the best way to see as much as we can.
Still, the thing that pushed us towards staying the extra time is that we really aren't ready to leave yet. The only other option would be to leave in June 2011, which would only give us another couple of months with the kids. I think it's going to be really hard to leave them when we go and we really feel as though we've only just arrived. Besides, we get to travel a fair bit here, so I'm sure we'll see more of Europe in the coming year.
The kids are pretty crazy at the moment, I think. Spring is coming back so all the snow has melted and I think the increase in pollen has sent their little brains into a semi-psychotic rage.
Our grade 3s have decided that they hate English and instead of "Hello" they now greet us with "Freetime! Freetime! Outside! Outside!" - there is nothing like crushing the spirits of ten year olds make another day worth waking up for.
The grade 2s are a lot more enthusiastic as they're starting to really put some of those random piles of vocabulary together to make sentences. Balázs, one of the nicer if more ditzy kids, today raised his hand in the middle of a lesson about public transport to announce in a very loud voice "I like Rock and Roll! Hahaha! ". He later declared that "I don't like Eszter! Hahaha!" Balázs is one of the kids that struggles a bit more in English, but he's also one of the ones who tries the hardest. He often comes up and gives us the latest news on all the dogs, pigs and other animals that seem to wander around his house (they have five puppies at the moment).
The grade 1s are still in that barely controlled flux between crazy and adorable. Amanda was teaching the kids about baby animals today and taught them that a baby duck was a "duckling" and when she asked what a baby cat or dog was called they decided that it was called a "catling" and "dogling". They were very stubborn about adjusting from this decision or so I'm told - pretty adorable. But on the other side of the flux, the Principal caught Péter trying to pee into a rubbish bin yesterday and when he was asked why he would do such a thing it was apparently because "Feri dared him to".
Yes, we'll miss them when we leave in mid 2012. :)
- Daniel.
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