Well, it seems as if Dave has really made quite a positive impression on the Grade 3 girls. As Daniel mentioned in his previous entry, Dave already had at least one admirer after his first visit to the class on Monday, so I was not at all surprised to learn that his second visit to the classroom yesterday further consolidated his status as somewhat of a heartthrob. In fact, Dave has proven to be so popular that one of the girls even asked him to create an entry in her memory book.
I'm not sure if we've mentioned memory books before on this blog, but basically they're fancy little notebooks or journals that many of the students tote around. The idea is to pass your memory book onto your friends, or family members, or teachers, and for them to each decorate a page in the book in your honour. Usually the entries consist of cute handdrawn pictures, poems or motivational quotes. When we first arrived in Hungary, Daniel and I were really excited about drawing in the kids' memory books, but now it's just kind of painful. This is because one of the other teachers at the school always seems to be invited to draw in the books before us and her entries are so well-crafted and so beautiful that we feel like a pair of hacks by comparison. 
Anyway, Dave was asked to draw in a memory book yesterday, and since I also had a couple of entries to complete in other books, we both sat down together this afternoon for a full on colouring in session. I won't go so far as to say that Dave enjoyed it, but he did do a pretty decent job. As you can see from the photo, he drew a cute little cat. I'm not so keen on its evil red eyes though....
In other news, we took Dave to the Sárkány Fürdő (Dragon Spa) in Nyírbátor this afternoon. After swimming laps in the indoor pool, we all ventured outside where the air temperature was a rather chilly negative two degrees celcius. Fortunately the water in the outdoor thermal pool was considerably warmer (about 38 degrees). It was awesome.
- Amanda
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