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Rebekka’s wish was to receive a laptop because her computer does not work at home any more. Her wish was very practical, as she can use a laptop also in the clinic during her treatment as well.

She has been waiting for this present for some time. Her dream has come tue at last. We have already had the laptop but we had to wait for a better weather in order to go to Mezőkovácsháza where Rebeka lives.

Then the family came to Budapest for an unexpected control and we used this opportunity to give her the present.

Rebekka was very happy seeing the computer, as she received it just before Christmas and the winter holiday.

Many thanks for the students and teachers of the The British International School of Budapest for their support and the joy they have given to Rebekka.

Rita could not say a word when we arrived with the present. She went to hospital only „ for a blood test” so they went home immediately after the control and Rita could watch programms on her TV that day. (Her grandparents did not believe that Rita’ wish would be fulfilled. We said them we always did our best to fulfill the wishes. )

Thanks to "Media Mark" of Szombathely for their support. We hope Rita can enjoy the TV programs for a long time.

Many thanks to the kind students of The British International School of Budapest for the great pleasure they gave to Rita.

Bendegúz is a teenager whose hobby is music. He decided to learn to play the guitar.

But he did not think his dream would become true in a short time. This present is due to the family Márkus who is one of our supporters.

They got the guitar nearly in one day and they undertook the long trip to Nagykanizsa before Christmas time.

The guitar was a really great surprise for the boy who had had fever for a long time.
„Do you like the guitar?”- I asked him. He answered rapidly:
„ It is much better than I wanted”

Máté had been wishing for a railway model. This wish was easy to fulfil thanks for the offer of a kind person.

I saw how happy he was when I met him in the hospital. He said he was going to build the table himself. He received the train and the accessories with great joy.

We wish Máté all the best. Enjoy every minute with your model train, Máté.

Dávid’s hobbies are the cars and the computer games.

When we arrived in Hajdúhadház he had been playing computer games. He showed us his wonderful wonder-bed, which is a huge red car. He received it from the Budapest Bank supporter.

The happy boy switched on us the lamps of his car-bed.

Dear Dávid! We wish you beautiful dreams in your fantastic new bed.

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Laci is a 12-year-old cheerful friendly boy. He knows the world of technique very well. That is why he decided on a “clever” mobile phone.

He was deeply touched because he didn’t count on this phone this year. He was very surprised when he could keep the wished phone in his hands. We recognized in short time that he is skilled in phones.

He talked to us of course with pleasure. We met his mother and brother naturally and we talked to them cheerfully.

We hope this present gives Laci more strength and further jollity especially before Christmas.

A few days later we got this e-mail from Kálmán:

Marci was very exiting when he was waiting for us. He thought we would speak about his wish.

When it turned out we won’t speak about his wish but he is the happy owner of a XBOX he was so glad he hardly could open the parcel. The play was installed in a short time and he could play.

He received a basketball game, too, which was the part of our gift.

We could realize again one of our ill kids’ dreams.

We have learnt about the wish of our small hero Gábor this autumn: he wished to get Star Wars LEGO.
His twin brother Péter and Gábor are real LEGO masters by their parents’ opinion. They like to build different LEGO-objects and they already have a lot of similar toys. When they begin to plan what to build and how, the world ceases to exist around them...

Gábor’s dream was realized with the help of the students of the American International School of Budapest.
All the students and teachers of the school were waiting for this day, not only because of Gábor’s wish but there was an extraordanary students’ meeting where the professors said thanks to the students who took part in the „Walk-The-Wish”.
We showed in a short presentation which wishes have been granted since the last „Walk The Wish”. With their help Virág has been to London, Zsolt has received a camera, Robert has got a PSP, Sandor has got a laptop.

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We told Gábor that the students had wanted to meet him personally and they waited him with some present. He listened to their reports patiently, watched the film about the walk. The students and their teachers even composed and sung a special song for Gábor:

After watching the film Gábor had to go to the stage and the wished toy was given him. He was so surprised that at first he could say nothing, but then he bowed to the chering crowd and just said "thank you".

The real surprise came some minutes later.
The older students waited for Gábor and Péter with a cake forming a big LEGO structure as they celebrated their 10th birthday on that day. The cake was made by the wife of one of the teachers. It was a real masterpiece. It weighed 10 kilogramms as the boys became 10 years old. Of course Happy Birthday was sung in Hungarian and English languages, too.

Gábor reacted with a joke: "When I will be 20 years old I shall get a cake weighing 20 kilogramms."

We hope this day and the gift will remain unforgettable for Gábor and they will help Gábor during his difficult times still to come.

We wish you Gábor a fast recovery!

We would like to thank the pupils and teachers of the American International School of Budapest for granting Gabor's wish.

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Virág and Vivien had been longed for London for a long time.
Shooting of Virág’s favourite film „Sweney of Todd” was taken place in Fleet Street and of course Virág asked us to go there by all means. We knew that most of the sceneries had been already demolished but we also knew that the barber’s shop next to the church should be still there. Certainly we also got there during our sightseeing tour although the shop window of FED-EX could be found in the place of the barber’s shop and unfortunately Johnny Depp wasn’t waiting for us, either :-). After all the experience was the same as Virág’s face brightened when she saw it.
Vivien was also thinking a lot about what to ask for from us but finally she chose London because she was curious to know what the beloved metropolis was like.

We visited a lot of interesting places during the few days we spent there.
We went to Piccadily Circus, we admired the fountains and statues of Trafalgar Square, the Monument of Nelson as well as the National Museum. We were walking in the St. James’ Park as we called it „Park of squirrels” since lots of squirrels were running around us and they were so tame that they could eat from our hands. We watched the Changing of the guards in front of the Buckingham Palace, admired the Westminster Abbey and we were waiting for quite a long time to hear the bells of Big Ben.

Certainly we couldn’t miss visiting Madame Tusseaud’s, as we had to greet the girls’ favourite actors and pop singers. We were also attracted by London Zoo, where we could have a rest after the several hours visit in the museum of the wax figures. We liked the seahorses, the butterflies, the meerkats, the gentle giraffes, the feisty cats and the tigers the most.

Of course Tower couldn’t be missed either. We felt frightened as we entered but I gave my words to Virág and Vivien that I would save them from the „torture tools” even at the expense of my live. We passed by those quickly for safety sake and we spent much more time at the royal jewelry (Anyway, women had been interested in jewelry for centuries. )

We went to several restaurants but the girls liked Rainforest Café the best. There we could hardly understand each other because of the big noise but it was compensated by the fact that we were surrounded by a real rain forest where trumpeting of the elephants and screaming of the monkeys were part of the menu.
We were sailing on the River Thames so that the other face of London could be also seen. We were listening to the musicians of Covent Garden, in brief we enjoyed ourselves.

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Little Robi likes video games and he is especially keen on PSP games. However Robi hadn’t got a PSP on his own, so if he wanted to play with it in the hospital, the little room-mates had to lend him a game. During our conversation he could hardly wait to tell me that he would ask for a PSP game from the Wonderlamp.

We were meeting several times in the hospital as the little boy was keen on the afternoon tale events. Every time we met, he hoped that I came to give him the expected present.

Today, when I went to the hospital and sat down by Robi’s bed, the little boy looked at me with big, wondering eyes. He didn’t understand what I was doing at the Tűzoltó Street Hospital early in the morning, since the afternoon tale events usually started much later. Then he suddenly stood up and asked me with a playful smile whether I really came to see him.

We went to the hall and that time I already let him know that his desired dream – a beautiful and serious PSP – had just come true. Robika asked me excitedly whether it was really true, whether he really got the PSP.

When I gave him the present along with the motor-game as accessories, he cuddled it and his face shone with happiness. He was touched and he could only say: „I have already got it; it’s so good that from now I can play with my own PSP and I can play as much as I want.”

We wish you Robika to take pleasure in your present.

Normann’s wish was a visit to the ’Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden’ and the ’Budapest Amusement Park’.

We luckily chose a day of October, - there was no rain – it was an ideal choice for the fulfilment of the wish. Normann was interested in the ’funhouse’ and the ’ghost - rail’, so naturally we began the whole day with it.

We – adults - found the ’ghost – rail’ a bit formidable but Normann as a real big boy raced through and he wasn’t afraid. Then we have listened to the legend of Sir John on the fabulous small railway, he was travelling on a carousel-chariot. We have visited the ’funny jungle’, we were travelling by a ’tale-boat’ and at the end of our visit we have seen the Budapest View from the ’big wheel’.

The lack of time had to hurry to the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden where Normann has gone with his parents, but they told us about that day that they enjoyed it a lot, too and Normann was feeding a stork, too.

We are very pleased that we succeeded to spend a pleasant day with Normann and his family, we ’the Csodalámpa Foundation-girls’ all enjoyed this small trip, too a lot.

We wish you Normann a very good health and to remember for this nice day for a long.

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