American International School of Budapest (AISB) just held their huge annual international fair. Parents set up international food stalls in the gym for homemade Belgian waffles, Canadian pancakes with real maple syrup, Indian mango lassi, etc. Elswehere there was a huge used book sale to benefit the librarian's pet project, a dog shelter, where I located a dvd (Hearts in Atlantis), and a book (Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West) that I had been searching for forever. There were also t-shirts being sold to benefit Haiti, snowcones for the cub scouts, and a myriad of other things going on. Treehugger Dan's Fair Trade and Foreign Language Bookstore donated 500g Fair Trade organic Mundo coffee beans, and Fair Trade organic curry, leaves, ginger powder, white pepper, and chocolate with orange and cinammon to the raffle.

Teacher John Matlock's Global Issues middle-school class at AISB invited us up to share a table with them as they promoted Fair Trade. The school uses Fair Trade coffee, and the new Fair Trade organic chocolates from Treehugger Dan's at the cafeteria are selling like hotcakes. One of the most popular ones seems to be the Fairetta milk chocolate bar with strings of coconut running through it. John's class blew us away. They had made a nice brochure about Fair Trade, lots of posters, badges against slavery in food and handicraft production, and lots of huge cool posters - including one about Treehugger Dan's. Honestly, they were more organised than we were. They also had no qualms about phyiscally dragging people over to the table and first explaining to them about Fair Trade, then showing them our Fair Trade organic chocolates, coffees, chocolate Easter bunnies and eggs, cocoa powder, hot chocolate, nutella, and gumi bears. One student in particular, Fanni, who is apparently quite shy in class, deserves a medal for all her activity on our behalf and getting the message out. The class in now considering starting an NGO in the school.