We're closing the kindergarten chapter sooner than expected
Slowly our days are changing
While our original plan was to give away our rusty car halfway through May, so we'd have a few weeks left before departure and therefore would close the kindergarten chapter here in Hungary and slowly work towards the final day here. I was already facing time scheduling issues with the distance to and from kindergarten to bring her and pick her up. Although I have found the best way to avoid the big traffic jams by bringing her there at 7 AM and picking her up at 3 PM (the soonest time possible) I've been having a very hard time getting up as I work until midnight most days. Thankfully for me, they are super relaxed with parents not bringing the children while they're at kindergarten. I've been taking advantage of that the past weeks and it has helped me get through the days, lol.
Traveling to school is a pain most days
Budapest is very big you see, we live in the shittiest inner center area you can imagine, great if you are looking for cheap accommodation and a party holiday, so I've been told, but for a family, it's just not that great. Unless you grew up here, I suppose. For us, it was quite a culture shock at first, but we choose to rent this place from the older man that helped us out during our first months as well, the apartment is good and a real upgrade from our last, so we got the dirty district with that for free.
At first, this was the best solution time-wise as my boyfriend was still working near that school because they have this rule in their system that you can only attend a school in your district unless you have a parent working in another one, then you can attend one there. Funny thing is that this was only the case for a few months because then covid demanded working from home, but as she was already assigned she could stay there. I tried public transport out of necessity but that's even double the time almost if you add the waiting on the bus since they closed a big part of the subway for renovations not long after the start of her school year.
She loves the kindergarten
Even though it's a public Hungarian one, there is one assistant teacher in her class that helps her a lot with the language. In December I decided to hire her for some private classes in Hungarian to make sure she would not have too many struggles during her last period there, but the funny thing is holidays got in the way, and some other things, meanwhile the child suddenly started speaking whole conversations in Hungarian, haha. Super cute. And now our plans suddenly were speeded up and we are focusing on Spanish instead.
I'm super grateful for the help she has offered and I'm thinking of buying her a gift card as a thank you on top of the chocolates I will bring for the others. It would have been a lot harder without her help.
The car will be gone before the end of April
Our friend who will take the car needed a ride hours from here and we personally have avoided those situations every single time since we had that scary drive to Balaton in the summer. I don't want to take any chances so instead we proposed that they'd get the car before he needs that ride so we have another thing done and dusted and I can also close the insurance before we leave, so it's another task completed. A few days ago I was compiling a bucket list for Budapest with the thought that I'd have a few more weekends left to go somewhere with the car, but now I have to prioritize the things that really need a car so that we only have things on the list left that can be easily done by public transport.
Final days at kindergarten
With the Easter holidays in between, we already decided to keep her home this week, we are crafting and painting and practicing some other things while she can also use the learning software I bought last year. I didn't want to just close the chapter without her being able to say goodbye next week though, so she will have a day to celebrate and she can give the kids and teachers presents and say goodbye and thank you. While discussing this with her teacher, I got all emotional as now it's becoming real, she loved it there and I'm happy she has made friends as well.
I teared up when the teacher told me she was a bit sad as they prepared an English poem for the mother's day celebration on May 2nd as she won't be there. Luckily she said they will give it to her as well as a gift for mother's day. So sweet, and I will make sure it will be taken to Spain.
School photographer
They took school pictures a few weeks ago and I'm truly hoping that these will arrive before next week or at least in time to pick them up before we leave. If I don't have to travel in horrible rush hours, it's not too bad to take the bus there but it's the rush hours that make it a shitty situation. But worst-case scenario, I guess I can just pay the teacher the money and ask if they can send them to me, but I hope it will not be needed so that I can take care of it before departure. It will be an extra memory of her final months here as the pictures were taken recently and will include her classmates and teachers.
Another week closer to the actual emigration date
While I was super relaxed about it last week, I now start to feel more pressure to list items online for the sale, although without these extra sales we will still manage just fine, it's just more that I want to see the cabinets get emptier as well as clutter disappear. I'm constantly surrounded by clutter now while going through stuff, so I'm hoping that when we will do the test packing of our suitcases, I have more clarity about the actual stuff that I still need to list vs the stuff that can go for free now or last minute. I should not worry though, this is my most organized emigration ever haha, I'm definitely getting better at this! It sure helps that this time we had more than a few weeks to get things done!
Previous parts of The Expat Diaries
- Finding a place to live in Spain
- The countdown is real - The last times in Budapest
- Our life in 6 suitcases - sorting, selling & giving away our belongings
- Moving back to Spain very soon!
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Nice story of your daughter's evolution in kindergarten. She learns very fast from what I understand and now you want her to learn Spanish, bravo!!!!
Thank you, and yes she does, it's really cool how quickly young children pick up languages.
Wow, It is really coming up fast. It is nice that your daughter will get to say goodbye to her teachers and friends. Things are changing fast for you @thisismylife.
Yes, she's super excited and it really seems like the countdown is going faster by the week.. But super exciting! :)
That is awesome.
From someone who also moved a couple of times through different countries i can confirm this. it does get easier and more organised once you have done it before (and surely it is a lot less scary!)
You will get through!
Haha, yeah it truly does. And I'm seriously less stressed in general about it. Good to see you again btw, I disappeared for a while from my old account where we met.. Keeping that name a secret here online, but if I tell you I was the one that told you about Steemit, you should know enough :)
Hope you're doing well!
Honestly when I saw the story of hungary and so, I already expected something ;)))
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Oooohhh, I'm SOOOO excited!!! I can't wait for your stories and photos in Spain!
Not much longer now!
It would be nice if your daughter kept speaking those sentences of Hungarian.
Never know where it'd come in handy. Languages are never bad. But Spanish would be best of course. She'll fly that soon enough...
Yeah but I bet we won't interact with many Hungarians after we leave, I mean, we never did before we moved here either so .. and that language is only used here, not like Spanish that's useful all over the world.
I can't wait for these pictures and stories either I mean, thinking about the daily sunsets that I will be able to see there is making me smile from ear to ear. I feel happiness brewing inside when I think about the little things that I missed from the time we spent there, even though we didn't live near the coast back then, we had so many of these little things moments that still make me smile.
The people doing V2K with remote neural monitoring want me to believe this lady @battleaxe is an operator. She is involved deeply with her group and @fyrstikken . Her discord is Battleaxe#1003. I cant prove she is the one directly doing the V2K and RNM. Doing it requires more than one person at the least. It cant be done alone. She cant prove she is not one of the ones doing it. I was drugged in my home covertly, it ended badly. They have tried to kill me and are still trying to kill me. I bet nobody does anything at all. Ask @battleaxe to prove it. I bet she wont. They want me to believe the V2K and RNM in me is being broadcast from her location. And what the fuck is "HOMELAND SECURITY" doing about this shit? I think stumbling over their own dicks maybe? Just like they did and are doing with the Havana Syndrome.
They are reckless and should have shown the proper media what they had before taking me hostage for 5 years. I know there are many in prison that dont deserve to be there because of this. Your stay in prison will not be fun @battleaxe and friends. People are going to want you dead when they find out what you did. I hope you die a slow painful death. You sick mother fuckers.
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Its a terrorist act on American soil while say its not real or Im a mental case. Many know its real. This is an ignored detrimental to humanity domestic threat. Ask informed soldiers in the American military what their oath is and tell them about the day you asked me why. Nobody has I guess. Maybe someone told ill informed soldiers they cant protect America from military leaders in control with ill intent. How do we protect locked up soldiers from telling the truth?
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Your sharing is so exciting for me. Everything will go away.
Yay! So i's almost time for you to get going for a new adventure in Spain! Exciting it must be for your fam to be exploring another world as you leave Hungary. I wish you the best on your preparations! And it's amazing that your lil girl learn new languages quite so easily🌞
The stressful times are almost over and the great times are about to begin. Do your best to see the positive side of your move.
Oh, you are so moving along with things! And your daughter's teacher sounds so sweet, as do a lot of the people in your life. Seriously, I love your emigration diaries posts because they paint an incredible picture of all the minutia one must undergo before they go, which I think is amazing. Moving is such a chore, moving to an entirely new country even more so, and I am so, so thankful you have chosen to share it with us all😊
Hope all your stuff flies right out the door when you list it online! Okay, not literally, although that would be a pretty awesome post lol!
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Soon you will be the douchebag saying "Barthalona"
LOL whatever :P I can't help it that that's how they speak, let me tell you it's so much easier to learn Spanish than Hungarian. And more fun too :)