Please do not pay any rent until the contract is signed (but sign a contract as soon as possible). Be sure you read and understood it before you sign it. We put a blank contract in English and Hungarian, which you can use, in the welcoming information package. Please be aware that although BSM is an intermediary between you and your landlord, you have to agree and sign the Lease Contract with your landlord. So please, in case of having any problem, visit or contact the BSM office and let the coordinator handle the problem. Due to our earlier experience, let me stress: We can solve your housing problems only if we know about them. If you are not satisfied with the accommodation or don't get along with your roommate(s), let us know ASAP because change is possible! However, you may be asked to be patient for a few days until our student coordinators will find you another place to live. Some other technical issues (for all): we do our best to find you housing as requested. The Babilon course begins on Monday, the 22nd of August. Normally you will meet me, the Budapest on the opening ceremony in September, but most of August I'll be also available at For those who come in August and take the intensive Hungarian language course: be prepared for the difficulties of the first couple of days because the course at school Babilon is indeed intensive! Though it includes an orientation tour in the city, the long school hours will take almost all of your days leaving hardlyĪny gap for the daily routine of shopping, etc. Please note that most probably the first person you will meet from the staff (apart, in some cases, the student helper meeting you upon your arrival) will be Eszter, who will be available during the Babilon course as well to assist your needs. You may send your message to Budapest through email to the following addresses: or In a dire need of urgent info or in case of an unexpected change or delay in your arrival data or on weekends (or being lost upon the arrival) you may call our student coordinator' (Miss Eszter Cseke) mobile phone 30-4743-924 with a prefix 06 within Hungary or a prefix 0036 from outside of Hungary. If any unforeseen change happens in your travel plans please let us know immediately.
Some of you agreed in another meeting time and point with the Budapest office, those are moted, of course, and we will act according to them. Don't forget to notify our office and/or Bonnie Humke's office about your arrival time, carrier, flight number, etc. When you arrive in the airport hall (or at the train station), look for the "BSM" sign! An escort will be waiting for you and will see you to your Budapest home even if your flight arrives late at night or on weekends.
If your luggage gets lost during the flight and the carrier ask for your address in Budapest where to deliver it later/next day the best is to give the address of BSM (College International BSM, 1071 Budapest, Bethlen Gábor tér 2.) because you still do not know yours and here we have a 24-hour reception.
In any case, even though the information of the first couple of paragraphs below is outdated for some of you, the rest of the letter contains important information, please read it carefully till the end.īe sure you carry the Hungarian student visa (type D-5) when you come (it is dificult to forget, though, since it's stamped into your passport). However, if I send it out earlier, many of you would forget the information in it by your arrival. I ask all of you to read the letter carefully, including the last part containing info about the courses of the new semester.įirst of all, let me apologize for being late in sending out this letter and, as a consequence of that, some of you receiving the letter after your arrival to Budapest. The staff has great expectations of working with you! It is our pleasure to welcome you among a very special group of American students: this is our group for the 2005 Fall Semester of the BSM program.