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What a great Family Day!

My EVS experience couldn’t start better than joining a family day organized by the Xellia pharmaceuticals company. SOS Children’s Village in Hungary has number of sponsors, friends, and just organizations that share our mission and try to help us in any way they can. So Xellia is one of such organizations that annually holds a family day for its members and always invites SOS Children's Village in Kecskemet. This time the event was in Domonyvolgy - a very beautiful green area not far from Budapest. We arrived there around 11 am and a small brunch was served to us. Kids were happy to arrive to Domony because the organizers provided so many activities to make sure that nobody gets bored. Some could enjoy riding horses, little kids, in their turn, could ride ponies and those who are more interested in vehicles could try quad bikes (kids actually really loved them). There was also a big shooting gallery with different prizes ranging from small trinkets to big plush toys. For little kids the organizers made a big playground area, where one could also find a so-called "tattoo corner" (after a while you could see not only kids but even adults with colored tattoos on their faces, I actually, also made one ;D Domony also has a small but very cute farm with different kind of animals and it was quite nice to walk around the area and see special Hungarian animals. 

Before the lunch we also had an opportunity to see a great show at the hippodrome. The show was complimented with a history of Hungarian horse riders. Looking at the kids' faces I could tell that they really enjoyed it! Around 1 pm we were invited for lunch to try a big range of Hungarian dishes.Surrounded with kids, lunch turned out to be a good Hungarian lesson for me. (as I don't speak Hungarian at all), children were showing me different objects and asked me to repeat after them. I have to admit that Hungarian is quite hard for me to master because even pronunciation makes me struggle. :D However, after learning couple basic phrases in Hungarian and being full with delicious lunch, we all left to watch a Brazilian show with Brazilian dances and capoeira.

It was around 4 pm we decided to head back to Kecskemet. Finishing their ice-cream, and filling out their pockets with all sorts of gifts from the shooting gallery, children were very happy and excited. I was happy as well! Happy to be the one who can share the joy with them ^-^ Indeed, it was a great Family Day!