AUCKLAND HUNGARIAN CLUB

It was a great honor to be able to take part for the second time in organizing an event for the Hungarian community in Wellington. I am truly grateful to Klári Szentirmay, President of the Hungarian Millennium Park Trust, for placing her trust in me once again. This time, we commemorated the 69th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence. During the preparations, we organized a quiz, an acrobatic rock and roll dance performance, and a dance house. T

I’ve always been fascinated by the art of tattooing. I got my first one at 17 — the logo of my band on my right shoulder. With that band, we finished as the fifth-best act in the 2021 anniversary season of the X-Faktor talent show. My second tattoo came at 25: a Shakespeare quote over my heart — “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” When I was in my third year at university, Attila Vidnyánszky Jr. directed our exam performance of Shakespeare’s A

I remember the smells when I arrived in February. It was late summer. Life was bursting everywhere; the sun was shining, and the wind, like a giant air freshener, blew the scent of the ocean between the skyscrapers. Later, winter washed it all away, and now that the landscape is blooming again, I feel nostalgic. Every ending is the beginning of something, and every beginning is the end of something else. I will miss teaching. The kids, playing marbles with them, the situation