Friends and Family

Agusta has another sister, Kala, and a brother, Noi. I liked to play with them. Agusta's siblings are also her classmates, their Mom teaches them at home. I am going to tell you all about their school once I have introduced you to everyone.

 


This is Agusta's Mom's car (or maybe "truck" is a better word for it) it is ginormous. I like to ride right up front, it is so high up that I get a great view of everything.

Agusta, Kala, Noi, Sara (their mom) and I went to the park together. There were some really cool slides.

Agusta also introduced me to some of her friends, we had great fun together.

I wasn't the only visitor staying with Agusta and her family. Agusta's aunt, Þórhalla, was visiting from Iceland, she is really cool. Agusta was born in Iceland, it sound like a really interesting place. I hope I can visit there sometime.

A Day in the Life of Lily

This is Lily's school. She is in first grade.

Lily really likes school, she has lots of friend there and has lots of fun. Lily thinks her teacher, Eszter, is wonderful.

It is a Waldorf-Steiner school so it looks and does things a little bit differently from most schools around here. Most kids Lily meets here are surprised to hear they don't do reading in school yet.



The classroom is very pretty, the blackboard always has a beautiful picture on the front. Now there are the four Manós (forest efls) who help with numbers. New buds and flowers appear on the picture every day, just like the plants and trees outside. In the corner there is the season table. The children can bring in natural things they find to put on it.

Everyday Eszter makes all the children tea to drink with their snacks. All the children have their own cup with their name on it. We do watercolour painting every Tuesday. The paintings on the wall are of a Farsang ball where the Manós are playing together.


Eszter gave these rainbow strings on the very first day of school. We use them to play games, like cats's cradle, and make characters and scenes from the stories Eszter tells. In the picture Lily is making a butterfly. The children draw pictures of the things they learn in their drawing books.

Lily enjoys knitting at school. She is making a teddy bear and has made a case for her recorder.



After school we go to the market to do some shopping. It is very colourful and busy at the market.

We can buy almost everything we need from the maket and the vendors are very friendly.

We can get very nice and fresh meet at the butchers, as well as yummy szalámi and kolbász sausages. Gábor even likes to buy bones to make meat stocks from.

On the milk market we get fesh cheese, yogurt butter and milk. Turo (cottage cheese) is used a lot in Hungarian cooking. Jen like to buy raw milk to make yogurt Lily thinks the cheeses are not just tasty but they are beautiful too.


 







Lily's favourite part of the market is the flower market. The smells are wonderful and sometimes the vendors give her a little bunch of flowers for free. The market is full of lovely spring flowers like these daffodils and hyacinths.

Once we are finished at the market we have all the ingredients we need to make Goulyas Leves (Goulash Soup) for dinner.








But before that we go to Kárász Utca (the street that was on the postcard) to get some ice cream and to play on the square in front of the town hall. Lily loves to climb on the trees and the statues. While we were on the the square we saw folk dance troup on a parade.

Now it's time to make dinner.

Jó Étvágyat


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