Final Friday in Budapest :,(

Happy Friday!! Meredith, Hannah, and Emma from room 661 are back!

We started the morning off a little earlier than usual with a very engaging presentation on the Hungarian refugee crisis of 2015 by Anna, a woman at McDaniel College who works closely with St. Olaf's study abroad programs in Budapest! She described the political climate in Hungary and what it was like to live in Budapest during the 2015 refugee crisis. While her talk was very interesting to listen to, it was also heartbreaking to hear everything the refugees had to go through because of the Hungarian government. However, Anna also told us stories about how helpful and kind many of the Hungarian citizens were during the crisis. Overall, it was a very moving presentation. 

After Anna's talk we had a short break before doing, you guessed it, MORE MATH!! Today we learned about pythagorean triples (PT) and primitive pythagorean triples (PPT). Trust us when we say it was very hard–our proof of the primitive pythagorean triple theorem (PPTT) covered TWO full notebook pages. Don't worry, Prof Hanson made sure to give us an extra hard worksheet to accompany the lesson :) 

Here is Michael showcasing how we feel about Number Theory (sorry Bruce, it's just really hard math). This complex math left us starving, so after a quick lunch break we returned to the classroom to watch a movie in Hungarian. The movie was called The Witness (A Tanú in Hungarian) and it was a satire about communism in Hungary. 

After the movie we went back to the hotel and worked on the homework before going out to dinner to our favorite restaurant, Pasta e Basta. 

Now we're back in the hotel, ready to settle in for a night of snacks and movies! We can't wait for our final weekend in our new favorite city, but we're sad to be leaving so soon :(