Wednesday 25.11.
We arrived at Budapest about 10.50am. We were all very tired and we went
straight to our host families. We all ate lunch and got a little bit of rest.
We gathered together at 6pm at the Swabian Tradiotional House. There we had a
kind of welcoming party. At the party we tasted some Hungarian foods and had
some mulled wine. We also danced some Swabian traditional dances together. It
was a bit difficult at first but we all had fun. We also danced some
Letkajenkka together after the Swabian traditional dances.
Thursday 26.11.
In the morning we attented some classes with our host students. We had a
little ''tour'' in the school and the Hungarian students showed us their
school. The school building was quite old and much bigger than ours. In the
afternoon we went to Budapest. There we went to see the Parliament House from
the outside. It was enormous and very beautiful. After seeing the Parliament
House we went to a christmas market.
There were lots of thing to be seen and it was an ideal place to do some
christmas shopping. The christmas market was really worth to visit.
Friday 27.11.
During
the day there wasn't anything scheduled in the programme so we decided to have
a little get-together at one of the student's home. We had a lot of fun by
playing games and eating pizza. However, in the evening there was a ceremony
for those in terminal classes at a culture house in Budapest. In the ceremony
there was a lot of different dances by students and even some of the teachers
included. It was also a graduation ceremony kind of thing for the final-year
students and there was videos where they looked back the years last-year
students had spent in the high school. The ceremony was kind of like
combination of wanhat, abiday and graduation party.
Saturday 28.11
On the morning we hopped into a
bus and drove to Szentendre,Visegrád. There we visited the castle of
Visegrád and walked around the castle
while looking at the beautiful Danube. After the visit we headed back to
Budapest and had a little sightseeing tour next to the most famous sights
including heroes square. After a long and tiring day, we all just spent the
evening with our host families.
Sunday 29.11
On Sunday we had a family day. One of us went
to the castle of Buda, see a movie and also to dinner in Hungarian restaurant.
Most of us went skating on the artificial ice in Budapest and also visited the
castle of Buda. After these we went to the Budapest eye.
Monday 30.11
On Monday we visited the school again and went
to some classrooms to introduce ourselves and take any questions the students
had to ask about us, our school or Finland in general. We also tried singing
Joulupukki but failed miserably which probably wasn’t very good for our
reputation.
After that we went to have lunch with our
teachers and then took a train to Budapest to do some shopping in a huge
shopping centre. And we were obviously all very tired after another day of
walking around and standing a lot in public transport.
Tuesday 1.12
On Tuesday we went to the Hungarian heritage house in Budapest to see
some Traditional Hungarian Folk dances, which turned out to be very different
and interesting actually. There was a band playing traditional music and we
also got to see the dancers in traditional Hungarian clothing. After that we
went to a workshop to learn some Hungarian handcraft and got to make ourselves
these dolls.
Later in the evening when it was dark we also walked up to Gellért Hill
to the Citadella fortress and stopped to take some pictures in front of the
Statue of liberty. From the top there was a panoramic view over the city which
was absolutely amazing and definitely worth the hundreds of steps we had to
take to get there.
Wednesday 02.12
On Wednesday we went to the House
of Terror. There we, for example, watched some video clips. We saw also some
wartime stuff from World war. We walked around and saw how bad conditions the
Hungarian captives had. After that visit we went to our hosts’ places. We
rested and in the evening we had the farewell party at Tamara’s place. The
whole crowd was gathered together and we had a good time. We talked, listened
to music and played billiards for example.
Thursday 03.12
On Thursday morning we left our places and went to the airport.
Everything went well and we said good-byes. Flight went well and when we
arrived back to Oulu, we were faced with a snowy landscape.
Text: Mervi, Henri, Riikka, Rita, Sirje and Tanja
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