Build a School Gym and Community Hall in Hungary

Dear Supporters!

(magyarul lsd. alább)

This report is going to be short, since - as I mentioned in the previous report - we almost hibernated constructions for the winter.

Nevertheless, among other smaller things, there were a few interesting developments:

(1) All the big engineering equipment has arrived. Gosh, they are big! We had to temporarily disassemble part of the roof to put them into place.

(2) It is a nice custom, that the parental community of our school organises an annual carnival in late February. Psst, don't tell anyone: this year we held it in the small hall of the new school gym. It was fantastic!

More and more people are now getting to know the building and are eagerly waiting for its opening ceremony after which their real owners, children can take possession of it.

I hope to send you news about lots of development in my next report.

Best regards and happy carnival - or skiing - season,

    Szabolcs + the SZWNA team

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Kedves Támogatóink!

Ez a riport rövid lesz, mert - mint ahogy legutóbbi riportomban említettem - télre majdnem, hogy mi is téli álomba merültünk.

Azért néhány érdekes fejleményrol örömmel adok hírt:

(1) Végre megérkeztek a gépészeti nagyberendezések. Tényleg hatalmasak! Ideiglenesen még a tetot is meg kellett bontanunk, hogy a helyükre tudják emelni oket.

(2) Szép szokás az iskolai közösségünkben, hogy minden évben megszervezzük a szülok farsangját. Ne mondják el senkinek: ezt idén már az új tornacsarnok kistermében tartottuk és fantasztikusan sikerült!

Egyre több ember ismeri meg az épülo tornacsarnokunkat és várja türelmetlenül az átadási ceremóniát, ami után végre a tényleges tulajdonosok, a gyermekek is birtokba vehetik majd az épületet.

Remélem a következo riportban már sok új fejleményrol tudósíthatok.

Üdvözlettel és kellemes farsangi idoszakot - vagy síszünetet - kívánva,

   Szabolcs és az SZWNA csapata

Dear Supporters!

(MAGYARUL A CSATOLMÁNYBAN)

Another three month has passed. The Advent period has started and soon Christmas is coming. We can feel that nature is withdrawing its forces from the summer liveliness into an inner reflection.

And so are we doing with the construction works. After we successfully survived a financial crisis in August, we had to re-plan the construction schedule to reflect the new realities of our cashflow plan. This meant that we had to accept, that the construction will slow down for the autumn period and things will take longer than we expected.

During the last three months internal works have been going on, such as basic engineering and electrical installations, plastering and painting.

What still remains is the inner tiling, the sports floor, the mechanical and electrical finishing, and the installation of sports technology. These will be postponed until next spring.

Oh, and the kids are still missing from the gym, though they are eager to move in. Just look at the picture - the gym is beautiful, but it is soooo empty yet.

In mid-October we held an information forum for the school community about the construction. We took the courage to keep it in the gym hall. Of course, everyone liked the walk inside and around the building. But why I actually write about this is that our teachers sang a song in the main hall and it sounded so fantastic that everybody listened to it with fascination. Someone later remarked that "the soul of the building was born".

With these thoughts I wish you a blessed advent period.

Szabolcs Kátai + the SZWNA team

PS: We are planning to name the school gym. We decided that we offer the opportunity to our supporters to suggest a name. So I invite you to send us your idea for the name of our gym hall. You can do this in a response email to our personal thank you letter which we send after your next donation. We are really curious what names will come around!

• Projekt riport 7, magyarul (PDF)