So it's been a while since I made an update, mostly because the entries for the past week would have been pretty short individually. I've worked at 3H for 7 days now, and I must say, I absolutely love it. Granted, it's all grunt work for now since my architecture know-how is fairly limited, but this is definitely the kind of thing I could see myself doing for the rest of my life. The only down side to it all is that I've actually gotta wake up at a reasonably early hour now (7 AM) in order to get to work on time. I work for 9 hours a day, but I don't really mind.

They've put me to work on a church that needs remodeling. I'm not sure when it was built exactly, but it's a baroque-style design. They've been trying to teach me to use ArchiCAD, which is an almost European-exclusive CAD program for architects. Only problem is that it's in Hungarian, which I'm not quite fluent in- Were it not for the language barrier, I think I would have gotten the hang of it a lot faster. I got better though, and I drew up the plans/sections/elevations for this church pretty well.

For the latter half of the week, they had me do some model building. This is the part that I really like, and a lot of the reason I went into architecture- I love building things like this, and I'm really a hands-on learner as opposed to someone who learns from a book. I modeled the church out of some foam core, which I'd familiarized myself with during the second semester of school, and built the surrounding terrain out of cardboard and finished it up on Friday. I was actually pretty happy with my results, given that I'd never made an architectural model at that scale before.

Saturday I was able to sleep in past 8 for the first time in almost 2 weeks, which made me happy. Zsuzsi took me to the Industrial Museum, where they had a pretty big collection of old furniture, and apparently the largest collection of Ottoman rugs in Europe. To be honest, I was a bit more interested in the building itself than the actual exhibits, but that's just me. There were some cool glass sculptures and some fancy keys that I thought were interesting in there though.

Afterwards, Zsuzsi took me to go pick up Sebi and we went to the

Transportation Museum. This one was a bit more interesting for me, with old cars, trains, and boats and such. They actually had a little electronics exhibit where they showcased old computers, arcade games and gaming consoles. That one really took me back, being able to see the original NES, Atari and Gameboy. There were older systems in there, but those in particular were the ones that I'd been able to play with when I was younger, so there was a certain nostalgia factor in it for me. I would have taken more pictures, but I'd already been told to stop once, and there was a museum dude in that room watching me...

Today I woke up at 8, and we all went to go attend church for Sebi's baptism. The mass was in Hungarian, so I obviously didn't understand any of what they were saying. Anyway, we got home around lunch, and the dozen or so of us (various guests/family who'd come to attend the baptism) had lunch at the house. Finally got a chance to have goose liver again. It's still good. Then some people took naps and other people took walks- I opted to stay in and keep tabs on Sebi while he napped- I was also a little sleepy. Eventually, some of us went over to Tusi's and had dinner, and then we moved over to castle hill where some of us went to listen to some church opera music. Zsuzsi and I went to a nearby restaurant and had some good cake.

So tomorrow I start up work again, my last day being on Thursday, and next Sunday we head off to Rome for a week. I'm excited.