No Power

The last couple days have been exciting. Well, more than usual at least. The person we're renting from accidentally forgot to pay the electricity bill last month, so the electricians from the power company stopped by and turned off our power. Since we don't speak hungarian, we didn't really know what was going on, so my roommate went down to the power company to just pay the bill so that we could sort this out later. However, the power company doesn't let you pay unless you fill out some forms which we didn't have and probably wouldn't be able to read anyway. So, after much deliberation, we decided to call the owner of the apartment and have them deal with it, but we don't have a phone in the apartment. So, I went out to buy a SIM card for my phone, and after doing that, I realized I didn't have a charger for my phone and my phone had been idle for about 3 weeks. Luckily, there was enough battery left to call the owner and have him come over. However, they couldn't fix it that day, so we've been without power probably a day and a half now. They're supposed to fix it today at some point. It is just very frustrating trying to communicate an electrical problem when the only words you know are large, coffee, thank you, and closed.

On a better note, I've been in contact with some friends in Europe, and we're going to meet in Prague on October 19th for the weekend. It should be fun, and I'll be glad to get a break from math for a little. I'll tell more about that after it happens. Since some person(s) has expressed interest, my roommate's name is Mark, he's a cool guy and we get along. He's here for the year as well, and he's focusing more on physics and applied math than on pure math. I'm almost out of batteries and I have to go buy a phone charger.