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Ancsa Continued

         Bill, whose name from Ancsa is pronounced papa-matzi, said that Ancsa loves stuffed animals and had to leave a large collection of them behind in Hungary.  She especially loves bears, like teddy bears, and has already gathered stuffed bears for her room in the Bonner home.  Why bears in particular?   “Because Mamamaci gave me a big stuffed bear,” replied Ancsa.  (It’s pronounced mama-matzi.)

         Because of Ancsa’s love for stuffed bears, she acquired a ready nickname at the Bonner home:  Boo Boo.  It’s used easily and freely by the Bonners who explained, or reminded, that the animated cartoon character Yogi Beara had a little sidekick named Boo Boo. 

         Ancsa had to leave other things behind in Hungary including a piano keyboard.  How had she come to acquire a keyboard?   “I bought it,” replied Ancsa.  Maureen explained that every month students at the orphanage get a stipend and Ancsa saved her pennies.  Also, she got scholarships from the school. 

         When Ancsa was staying in the foster home, the family provided violin lessons for her and also another one of their girls.  The family had children of their own plus four or five foster girls.  “I only called one of them my sister,” said Ancsa, who believes that money was the reason the family took in orphans.  Was she treated well at the foster home?  “Sometimes good and sometimes they hit me,” she replied.  “They hit me more than they hit the others.”

         Did all of the children take violin lessons?  “One of their children in the family played the violin and they took me to classes too,” said Ancsa.  “Sometimes they forgot to pick me up.”  Then she was forced to find her way home alone, in the dark, in the cold.  But Ancsa was used to walking to school every day, usually with the other girls in the family.  Was the school far from the foster home?  “We walked a half hour to school,” she said.

         What is the career that Ancsa is pursuing?  Said the accomplished violist, “I’ve always wanted to be a musician.  I want to be a teacher.”  When asked if she also wants to get married and have children, she stated with a big smile and no hesitation, “Yes!”

         Mamamaci said that Ancsa has already been offered a job here but cannot teach on a student visa.  Ancsa came to Victoria on a student visa to attend the University of Minnesota.  That visa was her ticket to the U.S. and it did not come easy.

         Explained Maureen, “She applied twice for a student visa, at Budapest, and they denied her twice.  The officials implied that she would not return to Hungary because there was no reason for her to return.  And there were also concerns about terrorists.  In 2008 we flew over there for her graduation and to be with her as she applied a third time for a student visa.  She had been accepted at the University of Minnesota.  We were warned that she would probably be denied again and she was.  After three hours Ancsa came out crying, but during those three hours of waiting, I had befriended a Hungarian guard who came to know our story.”

         Maureen related how the guard spoke with officials who then allowed them to enter the highly guarded U.S. Embassy.  “We were permitted to talk to the same officer who denied Ancsa her visa,” said Maureen.  “He assured us that after contacting the U of M director he would give Ancsa her visa if all the paperwork was in line.”

 

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December 2009