Third weekend in Szeged was
interesting in one aspect - we had a Beer festival
here. It was smaller than we could expected – just a couple of
tents, where you could have found beer, salted or sweet food to eat.
Also, we witnessed a performance of traditional band. They were
great! Even though Daniele didn‘t understand anything it sounded
great! They were using special drums made from deer skin to create a
music. Somehow all that singing and dancing remembered an Indians
tribes from North Amerika and their dances calling for the rain or to
glory something saint. The performance was really nice to watch, and
music interesting to listen.
On Sunday we had an
opportunity to see another event – bikers show. Maybe it was just
the closing of the season, but still it was impressive - hundreds of
bikers were riding all together. You could hear engines working and
making somekind of music. I say music, because people who really like
stuff like that would really enjoy that sound. For Daniele it was not
a new thing, because they have events like this every year, suppose,
but for other girls it was a big surprise! Neither Anita, nor Benita
haven‘t seen so many bikes in one place before.
And here comes
Monday. Benita went to Kindergarted for the first time! She really
enjoyed it. All that kids were stearing at her with big rounded eyes,
full of fascination! The same was to Daniele and Anita on Wednesday.
The first time in Kindergartens - what can be better?
On Tuesday, Anita
and Daniele went to Ötletfa again. Kriszta was prepared some
activities for the youngsters. At first we played „a silent actor“
game, where you have to act something without using any words, and
others have to guess. Some of the youngsters were more brave than
others, but we think, that everyone had fun! There are some moments:
After
that, we saw a short video about translating stuff. Than we talked
about all that: we shared the feelings, ideas about what we just
experienced. The aim of that was to make understand each other better
and to make ourselves more comfortable in that group. It was useful
because considering that not of participants speak Hungarian (Daniele
and Benita, who was in the kindergarted this time), we will have to
learn to express ourselves, our thoughts in other way, without
speaking. And others will have to learn to understand that. What is
more, we may have some stereotypes about each other, about our
cultures etc. even though we don‘t know each other personally. And
these tasks were like introduction into our 10 months journey in
Szeged. Breaking stereotypes and touching each others lives, to give
something and to get something back is our main task and ours biggest
treasure which we will bring with us till the end of our days. We
are building a bridge between different cultures and we enjoy it!
