My EVS in Budapest: 2009

Kde bolo, tam bolo...
Hol volt, hol nem volt...
Once upon a time...

This is gonna be the fairy tale story. Well, almost. Or, better said, it is the story about 5 princesses, 2 fairies, 1 good dwarf and many of their friends, which prepared the fairy tale weekend for children.

Well, I am one of the fairies, Serhat is the dwarf. Lilla, Cintia, Detti, Judy and Tünde are the princesses, and Ági is the other fairy. It all started when Lilla decided to write the project and with help of Ági submitted her application for the grant to DIA, Foundation for Democratic Youth.

Still, I can only talk about what was happening after, since me and Serhat joined it all...

But: WHAT is KAPCSOLDA???

It's the weekend meeting of disabled children with the students of the high school, full of hand-crafts, sport activities, games and fun.

It all begun with the idea of the Hungarian theatre actress Szalay Kriszta, who organized the first Kapcsolda in 2008 at other school in Budapest. The whole happening was a great success, so Lilla and others decided to try it again at their school - Karinthy Frigyes Gimnazium.

In March Ági and Viki organized for us a Team Building training in Egyesek office, which was the start for the serious Kapcsolda preparation.

We simulated a movie of the next week work as we were awaiting Szalay Kriszta to come to school and talk about Kapcsolda. Each princess had a role in a promotion of the event, and I was shooting videos to make a "real" movie in the end :)

Kriszta arrived on Thursday, March 19th, and had a nice and interesting speech. After that we got plenty of applications of Karinthy students who wanted to be "brothers or sisters" of disabled kids, or wanted to help us organize.

And then we were meeting once a week, each Thursday, to discuss about who is doing what and what is still needed to be done. Everyone had his/her role and slowly Kapcsolda was coming to become a reality!

And on the weekend of 24th and 25th April 2009, this reality was here. Or, better said, not here but at Karinthy Frigyes Gimnázium. School was full with its own students and with children of SOFI school.

But, however, it's all best said and seen in the movies I made. So, please, enjoy! And say, wasn't it a fairy-tale? :)

Back to still quite cold days of March, let me remember the nice day of 14th we spent in Pilis hills.

With Serhat and Julia, a Karinthy Gimnazium student, we joined an excursion organised by Judit and some other guys for a children's house kids.

Organizers prepared 2 different paths for kids to follow, according to the age and fitness of the kids. There were geo-caching treasures hidden along the both ways, so kids had more fun and motivation.

For more adventure we all together climbed the steepest hill we could find around, I have to admit I was quite worried for some kids if they can make it, but finally everyone climbed it all through as a hero!

There we could see beautiful miracles of nature, snow-flowers lusting for life!