Thursday, 24 June 2010

Got up this morning at 7. Earliest I've gotten up here so far I think. At around 7:30, Tibi and I set out to go meet up with a friend of Fanni, who was setting me up with another job in another studio, which I thought would be interesting and worthwhile. We met with Danny (pronounced Donny) and he took me over to the studio in Pest. He was a pretty nice guy- spoke good English. A landscape architect too, so we were able to relate at least some of the stuff we were each doing.

The studio (the office is called 3H or something... website is 3h.hu, and is
apparently pretty famous in Hungary) was a lot different from Zsuzsi and Tibi's. It was much bigger than theirs, with more people and more space. It was also in a building on the fourth floor, though I didn't really look out the window. I wasn't really sure what to expect when I arrived though- I told the boss what I'd learned in school and what I could do. I think I caught him a little off guard by telling him that I was only a post-first-year student and that I didn't have any structural experience, but whatever. I'm here for the experience, and he's getting free labor. Though he was impressed that I knew how to use Illustrator/InDesign, and said I might have to teach my co-workers how to use them... I mean, I know the programs, but I've only been using Illustrator for one semester, and InDesign I've only worked with for like a month. Not sure that I know enough to give a tutorial, but whatever gets me props with the boss, I guess.

It was around 9:30 by the time I started working, and I was meeting the other people who worked there, most of whom actually spoke good English, so I was happy. I'm still just drawing lines for plans/sections/elevations, so it's all still grunt work, but I enjoy it. Doing a church this time actually, which I thought was cool. I like churches. Had Chinese food for lunch, and pretty much worked until around 6, with like a half hour break in between.

Afterwards I opted to walk home. I'd never been
that far south before, and I figured it would be a good opportunity to check out some of the sights along the Danube. The cave church was cool, though I couldn't get inside of it. But yeah, walked along the Danube for about an hour and a half, got to Moscow Square, and then took a tram the rest of the way home. Going to go work again tomorrow, and then going to the weekend house over the weekend with Fanni and her family.

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