An insanely merry week

[wiseheart]

Behind the tag because of length and some rant-y parts.
So, tomorrow we're going to have our annual pre-Christmas charity fair. The kids and I made lots and lots of stuff: Christmas ornaments and decoration, origami stars of silver and gold tinfoil, little angels of recycled nespresso capsules, garlands, cookies and the likes. I'll be selling them today. Wish us luck. We're rising money for a children's clinic, so that they can buy a sorely needed new electrocardiogram machine, which they can only do with outside help, as our government finds it more important to build football stadions instead of give the hospitals decent equipment. Even though Hungarian football has been under a canal rat's arse for decades.

If we make as much money as last year, or even a little bit more, we can enable them to buy the electrocardiogram, and lots of children will have a better chance to heal. So cross your fingers for us, it is for a good case, and we worked really hard on the stuff we are going to sell, including the kids. Though they told me that it was fun to clean out hundreds of used nespresso capsules. Fortunately, ten-year-olds always find it fun if they can get themselves suitably dirty. ~g~

On Saturday, a few colleagues and I will make a train trip to Pécs, a wonderful town in the South of Hungary, to visit the Christmas market and probably the Csontváry Museum as well.
http://www.1hungary.com/csontvary_muzeum/I302040/photo-1/
At least I hope so. I haven't been there since secondary school, which is a shame. It has been a relatively new tradition for the last few years that we visit a Christmas market together before winter break. In the last 4 years we were in Vienna, Bratislava, the Schloss Hof, Kosice and Graz. Now that we saw everything abroad that can be visited within a day, we've started with the larger towns of our own country.

On Sunday morning, the choir will have a very short concert in the Gellért Baths:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell%C3%A9rt_Baths
We'll sing in the entrance hall, and instead of getting paid we are invited to use the facilities until 15h. Which is great, as most of us would think trice to go there on her own, considering the prices. But the husband of a colleague works for Budapest Baths, and he somehow managed to get us this as a form of sponsoring. I'm looking forward to it.


So, yeah, it will be busy, and interesting, and then only next week and then Christmas break comes. And I have only baked two sorts of cookies so far, and we don't have a tree yet, and I don't have a present for Mum, so I'm woefully beyond everything.

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Pécs is fantastic -- we went there with my parents on our last holiday together, and even they couldn't spoil it (they hated the hotel, which was the most beautiful I have ever stayed in). Crossing my fingers for your sale!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) We don't know the final sum yet, as we'll try to sell the rests tomorrow, but my stall was a success, so I'm happy.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Sounds crazy busy but fun. The Christmas market sounds lovely. As my mother is no longer able to bake her Christmas "Guetsle", she went to an Adventsfeier to buy locally made Christmas baking. Money for a good cause and she had a wonderful time.
Good luck with the market sales to raise money for the children's clinic, a very worthy cause. Our current government's priorities are disgracefully skewed also - funding for the coal industry not climate change action etc etc. shamefully reduced funding for education and hospitals. It's enough to make one scream.
I've also been unusually busy this week, for me. Was thrilled to be well enough to spend entire day yesterday doing volunteer work. And well enough to see the movie Interstellar on Monday, and go to the doctor Tuesday. *happy happy dance*.
A day at the Baths sounds delightfully indulgent - a wonderful opportunity. Have fun!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Is your mother German? The word "Guetsle" sounds suspiciously as one from the Schwabenländle.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm impressed. Yes, she speaks both the Schwaebisch of her childhood and German. I don't speak Scwaebisch, in factt I rarely know which language she speaks to me, mainly replying in English. (Sorry, this keyboard has no umlaut.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No need to be overly impressed - my Grandpa was German, is all, and I used to live in Germany for almost three years. Besides, Schwäbisch is German... well, sort of. *g*
I don't speak the dialect, either, but I'm able to recognize its pecularities (like using "le" as the diminutive instead of "chen" or "lein", and after a week or so I can even understand most of what they are saying.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Hope the stall makes lots of money and you enjoy your trip and concert.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I am mightily proud! I alone have raised almost 14,000 Ft with the stuff we made with the kids, although the most expensive item was sold for 200 and I didn't invested more into the basic materials than 500 or so. It was insanely much work - I have slaved for this fair for the last 2 months, basically, but it was worth it.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a lot of fun all around! Hope everything went well and wasn't too tiring!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It was... intense. But I enjoyed it.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

My, you are busy this December! I hope you're enjoying the season. Wishing you and Mum well!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The fair was fun, but I worked like a slave for it and am glad it's over. The final sum we reached is beyond 750.,000, which might just be enough for the clinic to buy the new EKG machine.