Tag: Hungary
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Week 29 – Skating, Presentations, and Georgian Culture 🇬🇪
March 24 – Day 184We started the day at the youth center, but then Rebeka (a friend and former flatmate of Roli) and Petra (a Tesz-Vesz volunteer in her free time) invited us—Salome, Nino, Jordan, and me—for ice skating. It was the last day the rink was open since winter is over and the ice…
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Week 28 — On-Arrival Training & A Cultural Weekend
17th March – Day 177 to 21st March – Day 181 This week was dedicated to my On-Arrival Training in Budapest as part of the ESC program. On Monday, I met up with Ricsi at 9:00 AM at the Szolnok train station. Together, we took the train to Budapest-Nyugati, where we met two other volunteers…
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Week 27 — A Week of Work, Community & Budapest Adventures
10th March — Day 170 After our big weekend trip to Kraków and Prague, we arrived back in Szolnok around 8 AM on Monday. Even though we were tired, some of us decided to go to the Youth Center instead of resting all day. There wasn’t much on the schedule, so we took it easy…
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Week 26 – Kraków and Prague Adventure
3rd March – Day 163 On Monday, we held our first Language Club session. We introduced ourselves and focused on teaching the Georgian alphabet to the attendees. 4th March – Day 164 On Wednesday, we attended the workshop and started planning a tech-related club where people could learn 3D modeling, programming, math, English, and music.…
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Week 22 1st February – Day 135, 2nd February – Day 136 & 4th February – Day 138 We worked in the Youth center 3rd February – Day 137On Wednesday Richárd and I went like every Wednesday to the workshop. We continued to work on our projects. I mentioned them in the report of week…
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Week 21
27th January – Day 128 On the 27th of January we met at the Youth Center. There we tidied up the office and disassembled the artificial Christmas tree. 28th January – Day 129 On Tuesday we continued and also tidied up below a sewage pipe, which will be removed because it is in the way.…
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Creative Progress and Reflection
Week 20 20th – 22nd January (Days 122–124)From Monday to Wednesday, Richárd and I spent time in the workshop, focusing on several projects:✅ Continuing work on the Youth Center logo.✅ Designing and modeling a 3D-printed stand for my portable DVD drive.✅ Setting up a virtual PHP server and installing WordPress to begin developing the Youth…
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Building Momentum: A Productive and Reflective Week
Week 19 13th January – Day 115This Monday marked my first Hungarian lesson of the year at 11 AM. The original plan was to join Roland and Pisti in renovating the new apartment after my lesson. However, they determined the renovation work was too intense, so I stayed home instead. 14th January – Day 116At…
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A Fresh Start: First Week of the New Year
Week 18 6th January – Day 108Monday marked the first workday of the new year. We cleaned the youth center to prepare it for an upcoming rental. On Sunday, I had also tried a new recipe: vegan red lentil pancakes. 7th January – Day 109I spent Tuesday at the youth center working on the Information…
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Week 17 – Back to Szolnok
3rd January – Day 105My journey back to Hungary commenced with a 4:45 am wake-up call to prepare for the ICE train departing from Cologne Central Station at 6:55 am. We traveled there via S-Bahn from my home district. I mention “we” because my mother accompanied me to bid farewell as I boarded the ICE.…