We had our school supply lists, written in Hungarian, from the teachers. The lists included typical school supplies, notebooks, folders, pencils, pens etc...so how hard could this really be? Well...after we spent some time doing a little translating, we headed off to Auchan (local grocery/supermarket/Walmart-like store) to attack the lists!
Now, like in the States, there are isles set up for just this occasion, and there are MANY people also doing their school shopping. The difference here is that we have NO CLUE what we are shopping for and being the "not-yet-fluent" Hungarian speakers that we are, we were in for a very LONG shopping experience. I don't think I can really express how we just sort of stood there...dumbfounded...trying to figure out how to best tackle the chore at hand.
So Mark took Jonah and his list, and I took Parker and his list...divide and conquer, that was the thing to do!
Well, we divided, but I'm not really sure we conquered. We did manage (with the help of some nice Auchan employees) to find most of the items on the lists after about an hour and a half. We were pretty much brain dead after that...so we followed the shopping extravaganza up with a cheap IKEA meatball supper!
Who knew that school supply shopping could be so different...or that school supplies could be so different. Every day is an adventure and we are thankful for it!
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