I finished up at Penn State on Tuesday, completing all my work and saying my good-byes (including my last lunch at Margarita's Pizza for the summer) by 1:00, then hit the road for CT. I arrived in time to watch the Red Sox beat the Tigers, Joba Chamberlain blow a game against the Indians (YES!) and Hillary's campaign basically end. So, that was a pretty good day.

Wednesday I took the 5:50 train into NYC so that I could drop off my paperwork at 9:00. I then went to the Radio & TV Museum (honestly, one of the biggest wastes of money there is in NYC - neat to see and a relatively fun place, but a lot of unnecessary expenditures) and walked around the city for the day before it was finally ready at 6:20PM to pick up. That was the best news in weeks, my visa was COMPLETE.

Thursday/Friday is still kind of a blur right now. Technically it's 11:45PM on Friday, but this has all basically been one day that started out with firming up the travel plans for Rome/Dublin with my dad's travel agent, then me catching a 4:00PM flight to Frankfurt out of JFK, then a flight that had me arrive in Budapest at 8:55AM. I got yelled at by some crazy German in the Frankfurt airport, and my headphones didn't work for the movie on the transatlantic flight, but overall a pretty uneventful and easy, not-bad trip. My Hungarian teammates met me in the airport this morning and took me around the city, showed me their University, showed me a couple cool places to eat, etc. We then met up at a little cafe with some of the other students before meeting some of our other students at the bus station later tonight.

Overall, Budapest is a fantastic city so far. It's very clean, and the weather has been great so it's been beautiful. I enjoy seeing the architecture, and while their language is quite confusing, the people have been very nice. Tomorrow (Saturday) we will be meeting as a whole class for a relaxing day of events, then our program starts to get more intensive Sunday into Monday for the rest of the week.

Definitely a successful beginning to the summer, albeit a bit of a stressful one. Stay tuned for more!