This weekend I really got to try my hand at a lot of things: playing Santa Claus and getting a glimpse of being a student at university.
On Friday 8 December, for the second time, we welcomed former members of the Foundation, who now have families and children of their own, with great enthusiasm at the Kaposvár Community House. Together they came to our baby-mama Santa Claus event this Advent and this year two more families joined the list of our guests. With toys, a table set up and a small parcel waiting for the little ones, I had the honour of dressing up in my Santa suit again this year – now as a matter of routine. At first everyone was a bit dismayed, but my group mates Eszter and Laci tried to lighten the mood with colouring books and other toys, and Levus with Christmas songs.
With success, because it didn’t take long for our house to be full of laughter and happy running around. The arrival of Santa Claus was a real highlight of the Friday afternoon, with little and big children alike being frightened but happy to receive their presents. While the children played, our mentor showed parents old photos, which brought stories and good conversation.
At the end of the day, we let the former Foundation members and their families go home with our Advent wishes, and I carefully folded my costume and put it away for next year. And as with this year’s Life Path Day, we hope to see the younger members and their parents at our Foundation’s prestigious event next year. In the meantime, all our readers can take a look at the gallery to see pictures from our event.
Radó Barnabás
On Saturday morning, I was able to accompany my younger group mates who are considering university studies as their tenth year. We visited the library of the Kaposvár campus, where the students who were about to start their portfolios got some smart advice from Professor Gombos on the content of a motivation letter and the communication strategies needed for the application.
We then talked about our forthcoming publication with Sara Gombosné Szabó, Research Support Librarian in the Publishing Office of the University Library. For me, too, I learned very useful information about what the ISBN number means, why and how important it is when publishing a book. Aunt Sára helped us to find our way around the table of contents, the title page and the exact position of the chapter titles.
She told us interesting things about what a publication should look like and the rules for editing. As a founding and active member of our Touring Club, I am also looking forward to working on making the publication as colourful and meaningful as possible. With little time left to get to know the library in depth, we will also get help for research work later on. We agreed to continue working together on the library in January, while the young people will work on their motivation letters and I will prepare for my first exams.
Gyurka Péter