Friday, September 28, 2007

How to make a mess in the city within minutes

Budapest is an amazing city. Something is always happening. Well we couldn't say it is a clean city as it is, we have problems with city dogs - or with their owners?!
Still, we can make an even bigger mess in the city within a minute. Every year there is a day in every distric's life, when citizens can get rid off all their rubbish. All we have to do is put the rubbish out on to the street on the given day, and then wait for the binman to come and collect it. It is a really good thing, and especially cheap for us. But this means to city just turns into a big big big rubbish dumping place. It's all over on the streets, you can't walk and of course you can't park your car. To top it all, there are always people who want to search all the rubbish to make it a bigger mess and of course us being Hungarians, the pile always gets smaller by the time the binman arrives - as we always say, 'It will be good later on!' So you can see people coming with big cars and searching through the rubbish for things they want to re-use in their household.
I have decided that I will get rid of my old cupboard as it was nearly falling apart. It took me a few hours to get it apart, another hour or so to take all the pieces down from the flat - and then 5 mins later it was all gone! A couple just came when my sis and me finished to put all the pieces out on the street, and in that minute they have started to take the pieces to their car. Hope they will be able to put it back together - good luck for you people! :)
So what is the learning of the day? - rubbish might not be rubbish, it is only a matter of looking at it from a different angle. There is always someone who can be happy with our rubbish.

My first blog

Well, the day has come that I created my first blog. I was reading a friend of mine's and it is so well written, I thought I will try as well. I might not be too good at the beginning, but I hope I will get better.