Last days, last meals and fond farewells....

These final days in Hungary find us with a full schedule and full hearts too.  There continue to be so many happy highlights as we continue on until the end.

 As of last evening we have a plan for our departure.  All being well we hope to leave from here by car on Sunday afternoon, with Shaun and Sondi taking us to Budapest.   After a late afternoon church service at the Kelenfold Evangelical Free Church we will spend that night with our new friends, the Madsens...Paul and Ellie plus sons Silas and Timothy.  We hear the boys need some more grandma and grandpa time!  And Silas is presently studying Canada at school so maybe we can help out with a few more facts there too.

 After one night with Paul and Ellie we will have our final overnight stay in Budapest at the ACSI guesthouse, and then mid-day on Tuesday the 4th we leave to fly home to Vancouver where our family will meet us about 6:30p.m. on that same Tuesday, December 4th...amazing how time flies when one is heading westward by plane across many time zones!

But for now we are still very much here. These past few days have been filled with many special times.... our Sunday Christmas Tea; continuing to counsel and tutor students; learning to make galuska; baking for the various groups meeting here; having friends in for tea; going out for meals in several homes....Today we are invited back to Magda's school for a special noon meal prepared and served by the culinary arts students there; tonight we'll be with Szilvi and Miki (and other friends) for supper; and in-between we have Reka, Tomas and a friend coming by for tea. In the midst of all this social action Ron had a new and exciting adventure this week when he was invited to join a school group headed out to explore some underground caves. But I'm hoping he will write later and give you his own personal version of this new caving experience.  For now let's return to Sunday afternoon and our ladies' gathering here at our apartment....



Ladies Christmas Tea on  Sunday, November 25th when
22 ladies of all ages gathered for a relaxing and inspiring afternoon of fun, food and fellowship.

 

Last meal times with new friends---Andrea and family plus Livia and family all treated us so well! We are learning to love Hungarian food!



Learning to make galuska in one quick home lesson....and yet another school visit.

Though we didn't have a huge turn-out for our Canada Day program on Wednesday afternoon, those students and staff who came seemed to have a good time and several lingered long to snack on the sweets and chat with us afterwards.  Then a very happy surprise was to have Alex (tall boy on Ron's right) appear here for our English club gathering last evening.  In fact he was the very first one to arrive!  Though Alex seems to have very little English he is certainly an eager student and we hope we can continue to keep in touch by e-mail and encourage him on in his English studies here in Tapolca.