Done! Extra practice from the Japan Foundation

 Source: https://classroomresources.sydney.jpf.go.jp/resources/hiragana-memory-hint-worksheets/

The assignment was finished by me, Melinda Erika Dothan.

Pictures were taken by me, Melinda Erika Dothan.

Here, I will share a story.

My mother's father passed away in 2002, it is 24 years ago. We, with my parents and my sister, went to Croatia for a summer vacation, and then when we came back, he died. He died very close to his birthday.

That summer, I was super sad, as before I believed that the person who loved me the most on earth had just died.

So I was skating a lot, much more than usual that Summer. When a mother with her daughter and her son approached me. The daughter was one year older than I; her name was Agi or Agnes. The mother had two sons, one older and the little one. The little one had Down syndrome. She raised the two younger kids close to our home. She, herself, had serious pain continuously in her entire body, and she had very severe pain in her hips as well. Her daughter went to Bethlen Gábor High School, where my private English and French teacher, and later, my private German teacher, also worked. 

I remembered this family from an earlier period, when I was a member of the Hit Gyulekezete. 

They continuously participated there for decades. 

The mother was super pushy and forced me to come to the church...

I started to go there again, as she pushed me very hard, although I was super vulnerable as I was grieving. 

My mother, father, and sister were against it, that I would return to the Hit Gyulezet, but I went there for nearly an extra 5-8 years more... 

Then I stopped it, and did not return... 

Why do I tell this story?

As I had to take serious religious education, in the last year of the gymnasium an extra subject and pass relagious exams. 

And why do I tell this story?

That autumn, I liked a boy, Szula Janos, who was a singer, and the same age as me, but I never talked with him, as I was focusing on my studies, and I did not want to start a family, like his brother, Szula Jakab, and Claudia did during high school. 

So I managed to spend years without talking to him, but being interested in him.

There was a point when a girl, Annamari or Annamaria, who was a student of the Bornemissza Education institute, and got accepted to study medicine in Debrecen, hated to live in Debrecen; she always wanted to be in Budapest, but she was not accepted there. She once, after several years, could change to Swemelweis University, but was not sure. She used to be a friend of Zseni, a nurse, who was originally called Venus. 

She changed her name to Zseni, which means genius, as she taught Venus is anti-Christian. 

Nah, but back to this medical student girl, she was a year older than me, she had brown hair, and she was shorter than me.

She was the one who started to mock me officially, terrorize me, and claim that I am a bad girl who is only a fan of Szula Janos. 

For me, being called a fan, who is one of the million, was very offensive.

I was not dating anybody, I did not go to any parties, I was only studying and participating in religious events.

She was referring to me as beaaaaach...

Very horror!

That summer, I learned that Ruff Tibor's daughter, Anna, who was like 5 years younger than Szula Janos, had gotten engaged with Szula Janos.

Before they got engaged, Alexandra, Nemeth Sandor's daughter, and Ruff Anna were mocking me, that I must mature... as they called me, I am just a liba, which means goose.... easy going girl...

Nah, Ruff Anna and Szula Janos broke up in less than 6 months, then Anna lived together with a boy from Israel... 

I managed to live my whole 40years, without talking with Szula Janos. I have not even once talked with this person. I liked him, but never talked to him. I was humiliated and mocked as other girls saw the confidence and the competition in me... 

Finally, Szula Janos got married to a girl whose name was Linda.

I am Melinda, and I use the name Linda only as a nickname.

So, I am not the wife to him!

Done!

Szula Janos (on the left), Szula Jakab (on the right)

Jakab is 1,5 years older than Janos, but Janos is taller than Jakab.

Plus, the only thing I ever said to Jakab: Hello, on the same night, when I met Claudia and Jakab at Tunde's apartment next to the Duna river, close to the Parliament, in 2004.

I also said Hello to Claudia, who was pregnant at that time with their first child.