Hungary… ‘meeting the parents’ :)
After the threatening of our AI team that it could go so terribly wrong, Ryan got completely scared. Especially due to the fact that he didn’t speak any other European language than English, and my parents speak only European languages (such as French, German, Italian) but English… So basically they couldn’t communicate. Poor them… I tried everything to calm both Ryan and my parents down but it seems that I’m not very good at that.
Of course nothing bad happened, my parents tried so hard to speak English and please Ryan, they even took language courses in the near past to be able to communicate but all of these things contributed to the extreme stress of my poor darling. :(
The day when we arrived, we also had a family dinner at my Mom’s house: with Mom, Dad, uncle Elod, Zsigi (my brother), Ryan and me. My Dad immediately introduced himself with his dirty jokes he knew and the funniest part was when he shared one with us in Hungarian, everyone was laughing except for Ryan, and then I had to translate and everybody was waiting for the reaction of Ryan… :) It was sooo funny…
The next day we started our ‘agenda’. I prepared a real agenda, with timing and explanation of ‘sessions’, but Ryan was not satisfied enough with it, he added some additional ones – which I didn’t mind at all – by the way. :)
But now seriously, the journey went very well, I showed Ryan the view on the Chain Bridge from the Buda hills, the Nagyi Palacsintazoja at Batthyany square, my University, the Vaci street, the Nagykorut, the famous ‘For Sale’ restaurant where you eat a lot of peanuts and you leave the shells on the floor, the Szechenyi bath where we took a nice massage with Ryan and Maria (who came with us to visit Zsolt and Gee), the Europe Café, the Chinese market, the Varosliget and many others.
We also got to meet some of my friends at Stex and at Kiraly utca and we also went to the Wine Festival with my Dad and Elod. It was very nice and I was very happy to share my culture with Ryan. And I think he got to know me better – especially where I come from, why I do things and whom I am the most identical with from my family.
We also went to Church and at the part when you have to shake hands with people around you, as the sing of ‘piece’, my Dad firstly gave his hand to Ryan – and I know, it had an important meaning – my Father likes him and he is very happy for Ryan and me.
So, overall, I have to say, Ryan has over delivered the task and so did my parents – all of them like each other – Ryan thinks I have a fun and nice family and my family knows that I am in good hands. :)
Of course nothing bad happened, my parents tried so hard to speak English and please Ryan, they even took language courses in the near past to be able to communicate but all of these things contributed to the extreme stress of my poor darling. :(
The day when we arrived, we also had a family dinner at my Mom’s house: with Mom, Dad, uncle Elod, Zsigi (my brother), Ryan and me. My Dad immediately introduced himself with his dirty jokes he knew and the funniest part was when he shared one with us in Hungarian, everyone was laughing except for Ryan, and then I had to translate and everybody was waiting for the reaction of Ryan… :) It was sooo funny…
The next day we started our ‘agenda’. I prepared a real agenda, with timing and explanation of ‘sessions’, but Ryan was not satisfied enough with it, he added some additional ones – which I didn’t mind at all – by the way. :)
But now seriously, the journey went very well, I showed Ryan the view on the Chain Bridge from the Buda hills, the Nagyi Palacsintazoja at Batthyany square, my University, the Vaci street, the Nagykorut, the famous ‘For Sale’ restaurant where you eat a lot of peanuts and you leave the shells on the floor, the Szechenyi bath where we took a nice massage with Ryan and Maria (who came with us to visit Zsolt and Gee), the Europe Café, the Chinese market, the Varosliget and many others.
We also got to meet some of my friends at Stex and at Kiraly utca and we also went to the Wine Festival with my Dad and Elod. It was very nice and I was very happy to share my culture with Ryan. And I think he got to know me better – especially where I come from, why I do things and whom I am the most identical with from my family.
We also went to Church and at the part when you have to shake hands with people around you, as the sing of ‘piece’, my Dad firstly gave his hand to Ryan – and I know, it had an important meaning – my Father likes him and he is very happy for Ryan and me.
So, overall, I have to say, Ryan has over delivered the task and so did my parents – all of them like each other – Ryan thinks I have a fun and nice family and my family knows that I am in good hands. :)
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