Sun-Mon16-17sept07
Sunday and Monday for me were a welcome days off to catch up with laundry, e-mail and the rhythm of Szarvas life after a week away.
An annual HFH Hungary training here Monday-Tuesday will occupy Levi/Gabi/HFH staff countrywide and is primarily in Hungarian, leaving me to my own devices aside from shared time with the staff at lunch/dinner. Time to catch up with work, too!
Family time on Sat15sept07
Back on the home front and back to cutting rafter pairs/completing ceiling blocking with our families here Saturday, followed by a visit to Plum Days with Gabi and her family at day’s end. It is a local festival much like Whaling Days in Silverdale, with booths framing a playground and park near the town center and a tent and bandstand as the focal point. As one might imagine, plums played an integral part, from palinka (PAH-link-ah), a plum based liquor that will cure (or perhaps sear???) whatever ails you, to jams and traditional dessert-type dumplings called “szilvas gomboc” (seal-vash gear-mm-bot-tse).
Fri14sept07
Our day with Shandor was a successful “first” for that affiliate, and an enjoyable day simply as a volunteer for me, since my “expertise” wasn’t needed beyond a simple sharing of thoughts relative to the layout of the day. Shandor has a group of local tradesman that know the ropes for the stages of the project we encountered, placing forms for a concrete floor pour, and laying out the “iron” or rebar for the same. The four men who are assisting/coaching on this were all Hungarian, and open to teaching this wee American their trade while waiting for the Citibank team to arrive. Fun!
My fellow HFH staffer “escorts” from Budapest dropped me off in Szarvas on their way back to the city (3 hours to Szarvas, 3 more to Budapest!), and we encountered an idyllic 6 car ferry crossing on the way just as the sun was setting. Beautiful!
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