Today was my birthday and I've been progressively getting ill each night with the drop in temperatures. I'd been expecting it to be high teens to low 20s but its dropped to daytime highs of 13. I packed mostly t-shirts and was looking forward to a long hot shower as the previous hotel had very low water pressure.When I came out the bathroom the entire room had flooded and my cases on the floor were soaking up water. I put them all on the bed and fortunately my la...

I was really tired being up from 430am for my 7am train to Romania. After exploring some of the town I went back to the hotel. My room is on the top floor so 4 flights of stairs. I asked if I needed a code for the wifi and went upstairsWhen I kept trying the code it wouldn't connect. Eventually I had to go down. When I came back up again same problem. This time when I went down and compared to the code on her sheet she hadn't made the letter 'Y' very clear and I ...

Having finished my Celta training I'd planned to do a brief overnight in a bordertown just so I can say I've been to Romania. The country is quite large and would divert me too much off my intended course if I went further in so this was as far as I could go and connect back to Belgrade.Friday after the course the group planned to meet at 5 and go for drinks with the tutors after 8. I had a 7am train as this was the only train each day from Budapest into Romania ...

My Celta training course is over and I finally get to leave Budapest after five weeks. This is my third time in Budapest and I've noticed quite a few changes over my three visitsI first did an overnight trip in 2004, just after Hungary joined the EU in 2003 (nicknamed the big bang when most of the Eastern bloc joined). I loved the city so came back for 2 1/2 days in 2007. For a long time I'd wanted to come back and do some exploring of other towns but working in ...

The four week Celta Teacher Training Course has certainly been an experience, and not necessarily in the way I had expected. There have been lots of things brewing and stewing in my mind over the length of the course so I've tried to organize my thoughts and experiences as best I canExpectationsThis is the premiere teacher training designation most employers want. I know I was an untrained teacher going in and was hoping this would be a gap to bridge between peop...