Bill and I left for Hungary exactly a month ago today. I'm surprised how comfortable and at home I feel in a foreign country where I've only lived for a month so far. The first couple of days we were here, Bill and I must have asked each other what we thought of Budapest at least ten times. We were hesitant to be overly optimistic about our first impressions, keeping our comments to "so far I'm really liking it." Now that I've been here for a month, been working for three weeks, been working on my Hungarian, and becoming more and more familiar with the city, I can safely say that I really love Budapest, and furthermore, I love living here.
For those of you who don't know why we moved to Budapest, I'll give the abridged version here. Bill and I had been talking about moving abroad for quite some time. When I was half way through my master's program, I decided to investigate applying for a Fulbright grant. Hungary offered the type of grant that fit exactly what I wanted to be doing, and neither Bill or I had ever been to Budapest, but we had always heard good things, so we thought it could be a fun adventure. After an extremely long application process, and an even longer period of waiting, I found out in April 2012 that I got the grant and would have the opportunity to move to Budapest in August 2012. I'll save the details of what exactly my grant involves and what Bill is doing for work, for another post.
