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Buntut dari drama Natal berlanjut dengan ajakan untuk ikut koor Sternsinger. Misi Anak Sternsinger ini adalah proyek bantuan anak yang dibentuk oleh gereja Katolik di Jerman. Tiga raja yang dimaksud adalah tiga raja bijak/majus dari timur yang mengikuti bintang terang sampai menemukan Yesus. Di Jerman setiap tanggal 6 Januari dirayakan sebagai hari raya tiga raja. Sejak sekitar abad ke-16 di Belanda, Belgia dan di Jerman ada tradisi pada hari tersebut orang memakai kostum tiga raja kemudian pergi dari rumah ke rumah menceritakan kabar kelahiran Yesus dan mendapatkan makanan atau uang untuk itu. Tradisi ini sempat hampir hilang, baru di abad ke-20 mulai hidup lagi. Sejak tahun 1959 Misi Anak Sternsinger mengorganisir aksi ‘Tiga raja menyanyi’ dengan tujuan dana yang dikumpulkan dipakai untuk membantu anak-anak terlantar di Asia, Afrika, Eropa Timur, dll. Tahun ini dana akan dikonsentrasikan ke Senegal untuk membantu pembangunan sekolah di sana. Terus terang, baru sekarang saya benar-benar memperhatikan hal ini. Walaupun kalau tidak salah ingat tiap tahun Pak Parera di Frankfurt rasanya sempat mengumumkan hal ini (maaf ya Pak gak nyimak sayanya hehehe). or as may landlady said, the usual way in Hungary. An interesting end to the year 2009 in Budapest, on 29th my neighbour came and told me that there is water leaking from our apartment (Amara translated all this for me, I’m so proud of her!). We checked but thankfully nothing leaked from the washing machine, bath up etc. Until we saw a bit damp wall on the corner of our storage room. So the neighbour told me she will call somebody and will be back sometimes during the day (it was in the morning). Imagine my surprise when she came back after about 30 minutes with two handyman! After weeks of despair to find one the last time when we needed one, I found this quite a nice surprise. So, how did they find the source? (I’m going inside their brain:) First, dismantle the bathtub. Dry. Hmm….so maybe the source isn’t in the bathroom…let check the storage room again and let us make a hole there….why not? First we have to remove the built in shelves. Easy just open some bolt and take it out, after awhile…uppss…didn’t see that the shelves are higher than the door…shoot! now I have to strip down all the pieces. I don’t need to be careful, this is not my home so I just hit the washing machine and break the front glass, no problem! Finally all shelves are out, dig the hole! After awhile… hmmm don’t need to finish here, guess the problem is in the bathroom after all. Let’s go an make another hole in the bathroom wall. Craziness I tell you! Finally after they knocked some spots…they found the source! As my neighbour told me this has happened before, the water pipe was never changed since maybe before Gorbachev was even born, it need to be replaced with a new one. What they did was just cover the leak with something, an emergency solution. They came again on Tuesday and change the pipe, BUT only from my apartment to my downstairs neighbour!!! Craziness I told you! They should change from top to bottom. I am aware that next time it will be leaking from upstair into our apartment. The really annoying thing was/is… they still didn’t put the bathtub together and now the washbowl is also not attached to the wall. I asked when they will finish all the mess. Answer was: we all have to wait for the insurance company to take the picture sometimes next week, which I doubt because my landlady told me no body at the insurance company picked up the phone. This is driving me crazy because now I have holes in the storage room and bathroom. I have all the stuffs from storages room in my bedroom and all the stuffs from the bath in our study. And we all have to share one tiny bathroom. I really hope that all this will be fixed by the end of this month? did remind me of Jakarta in Indonesia, how the buses and trains were always so full you have to stand at the door. This morning as usual, the bus was full but this time no one would step aside. I guess because of the BKV strike, people might be afraid there would be no next bus. But it was so full the driver couldn’t even close the door, so he just waited and waited until finally someone step out the door.
Just opened on the weekend before Christmas, not all the toys are installed yet. But regardless the kids were having fun. The place is much bigger than the playgrounds in Mammut Mall or Zoo. There is enough space for the kids to run free. For the parents there are tables and chairs to sit and eat. The cafeteria need to improve but as I said, they just opened. We went twice already and Amara didn’t want to go home You can see the opening hours and prices in their website. I think the price is reasonable. Can’t say for the coffee though, 350 Ft for a small cup of coffee from a coffee dispenser is quite expensive especially if you stay for hours there. Anyway…. it is important to bring extra socks, because you have to take off your shoes. The place is really clean, the restrooms as well. All the staffs are friendly, they speak english and german. So I can only recommend this place for your kids. |
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We stayed for about 5 – 6 hours there.