http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog What is a blog really but a little somein' somein' about yourself... :) Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:03:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, winter is in full effect here in Hungary. For those of you who don’t know, Hungary is about the same or similar to Indiana’s latitude and they are also similar in that they are lovely, land locked and COLD COLD places this time of year. Ashleigh and ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2008/01/06/new-winter-olympic-sport-the-human-luge/ Stanley’s here!!! For those of you who are not familiar with Flat Stanley, here is the scoop: one day, I received a letter in the mail. Inside the envelop, there was a note: Dear Jessie, I am in the second grade at Delaware Trail Elementary School. This week we read a story ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/10/17/stanley-goes-to-poland/ The coming months will be quite hectic for me. So if you see that I’m not responding to your mail or your calls, please feel free to check my calendar and note: I’m just out of pocket, I still love you to pieces. Here is what ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/10/04/in-the-coming-months/ So, I’ve been here in Budapest for just over two years now, and for a foreigner here, that is actually quite a long time. The expat/missionary/foreigner community here has quite a high turnover rate. That is just the nature of living overseas. The good thing is that ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/10/03/who-are-these-people-anyway/ There is an English website which I do not want to support because I feel it is quite vulgar and often leaves me with a very sad feeling about the state of Hungary and people in general so it shall remain nameless… but that being said, it, once and awhile ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/09/18/todays-anti-governmental-protest-forecast/ Here is just a quick preview on one of the experiences I had at the Sziget festival this year in Budapest. Very fun, cultural experience!! More to come soon!! http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/08/16/sziget-festival-2007/ After the weekend in Bratislava, Carol and I decided that we would venture to a similarly named country, to more of a nature weekend. So we headed to Bled, Slovenia. We rented a car and hit the road. This is exceptionally fun for me because it is an opportunity ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/08/07/slovenia-how-i-love-thee-slovenia/ So recently, I’ve been traveling to nearby places on the weekends. Places in which I would likely not travel across the ocean to see, but are certainly worth seeing while I’m here. Three weekends ago I traveled with some gal pals to Bratislava, Slovakia. This is the ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/08/06/bratislava/ One of my favorite things to do in Houston with my girlfriends is get a pedicure. In Houson it’s especially nice because there are so many pedicure places that the prices are low and there are lots of fun places to try. Here in Budapest, I have yet ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/08/06/conversations-over-a-pedicure/ My friend Carol was telling me a story of how she was walking along the street the other day and a drunken, Hungarian homeless man was babbling around aimlessly, stopped, gathered himself, looked straight at her, lifted his hand to form a gun (you know, like the sideways ‘L’), and ... http://www.jessiefoltz.com/blog/2007/07/05/crazy/