Yesterday I opened my mail box to find my very first Hungarian piece of mail. A few brave souls have mailed me Christmas cards (thanks Julie, Lilian & Amoreena) but I haven't gotten anything that was actually sent within Hungary.
As you'd expect, the letter was in Hungarian. It was sent from UPS in a UPS letterhead envelop but inside, on UniCredit Bank stationary, was what looked like a bill of some sort.
I immediately went to Google Translate for a little help. Here is what I got when I inputed the text:
Proof of payment of customs duties and other kozteher
AFA in central VPOP imp Acct: 11,302 huf
Kozteher Total: 11,302 huf
The bank is charged to this account today, strain, and transferred to an irrevocable kozteher kotelezettsget itself. This document kozteher in respect of the payment is conducted as a proof. The bill made a pendanyban.
Cash flow of services (SZJ: 65.12.10 adomentes material): 350 huf
Payable mindosszesen: 11,652 huf
*tizenenegyezerharomszazketto*
Not a clue.
Welcome to Hungary!
postscript...did anyone happen to notice that last word, that Google translate didn't bother to translate. Well, I did. It's 29 letters long. Try using that the next time you play Scrabble.
Seriously...that was the word you were talking about. WOW! I'm pretty speechless right now. Good luck with that! WOW!
Posted by: Melissa | Jan 12, 2012 at 05:11 PM