Personal Highlights of 2012

Personal Highlights of 2012

 To be honest this is so hard. I've had so many interesting occasions in my past year. I mean interesting to me. And now I have to choose one, because trust me, if I started writing everything down, you wouldn't stop reading until tomorrow. :D

I've been to several memorable parties, met interesting people, spent most of my time with my best friends, but this event I'm going to write about is different. Because it's related to *drumroll* school. Yes, school, and above all: history.

It all started a week before the actual thing. A kid from the parallel class asked me if I wanted to spend a weekend in Budapest, totally free with Bea. Of course I wanted. A weekend abroad with a friend of mine and totally charge-free? Who wouldn't have?

But then it hit me: what is this thing?! I had no information about it except that it's free and cool. After a shorter lecture from Bea and some research I finally had an idea of what this event was. It was a Leadership Training for kids around my age organised by the Rákóczi Association. Well, I wasn't much smarter, still didn't know what a leadership training looked like, but I already had agreed so there weren't any kind of ways back. I couldn't back out.

So Bea, a history teacher from our school and me took the train on the 5th of October, Friday and headed to the capital of Hungary. (Yeah, we skipped school without detention. How cool is that? Though we missed the test from Biology and when we had to write it, it was two times harder than the one our classmates had written a week earlier. I guess that's the little bit less cool part.) After 4 hours of agony in a small, stuffy cabin, we finally arrived. Well, the way to the Wellness Hotel we stayed at wasn't a trip to Wonderland either. We travelled by metro, then by bus and we had a long walk until we finally attended that huge and (in my opinion) luxury hotel.

Tired and hungry (that means me in a pre-hysterical state) we signed in and asked for our keys.

"Your roommates have already gotten here and they have it." was the answer we got. What?! Roommates?! You gotta be kidding me. There was no way I was sleeping with total strangers in one room. But we had no choice so I calmed myself down. Actually they were two very nice girls from Pécs I'm still in connection with. We had like half an hour to do whatever we wanted in our rooms and then the Welcome Ceremony started. Wasn't a big whoop, lasted only 15 minutes. We realized that every single kid (I don't know how many, like at least 50, from every part of Hungary, from Erdély, Felvidék and Délvidék) had an ID card in their neck only in a few different clors. Ours was bright yellow. The orgainiser of this thing explained that there are these groups, every color a group, and by the end of the event (that meant Sunday), all groups must come up with a program for a national holiday which they must perform. Splendid... But it was way better than rotting at home or studying so I was more than happy to participate. That's another thing that I didn't really have the chance. 2 or 3 girls took over control and I with the others didn't bother. We had a lecture to sit through, to be honest, I don't remember what it was about. I think money but not sure. Anyways, Bea and I walked into the restaurant part of the hotel and started giggling like idiots. There were no free seats except for two at a table where two guys from our group were  already sitting. We must've looked misrable because they invited us over, so we ate with them. The food was fine, but I'm really picky so don't listen to me on this one. They turned out to be very fun companions from Szekszárd, though I'm not sure about their intelligence....One of them asked us about what we eat here, in Serbia. I don't know...food, maybe?! LOL. Just kidding. I mean he really asked this, but both of them our super bright and smart and really lovely persons. After the dinner we had free time which we spent chatting with the boys and getting to know our roommates better and some other kids.

The next day (Saturday) was fine. Survived a huge doze of dry lectures, but the night...Now that was what I call fun! After dinner we went to the Palace of Final Arts and enjoyed a beautiful classical concert. Then the organiser (who was our group leader, by the way) gave us a sight-seeing tour of Budapest in our bus. I've been to Budapest before but never got these truly amazing sights. Then the bus dropped us off for 20 minutes on the Citadella. And that's when the fun part began! We left Bea and her companion there. Well, it's fun now that I look back to it, but then I was totally freaked out. My companion couldn't even calm me down. I couldn't call up Bea 'cause my phone was in her purse with her and couldn't reach our teacher either 'cause he was nowhere to be found. It was great. Just great. Then they arrived with the other bus and told us that they nearly missed that one, too, 'cause they almost got on a Romanian Tourbus. Gee, teenagers these days... Our room was the Party Apartment: there were Hungarian kids from 5 different countries! I gotta say, it was a good one. But the cleaning up was something I certainly didn't enjoy.

Finally, the last day, Sunday. We only had one lecture, and then did the torture all the way to the trainstation again. The actual journey leading home was quite silent. Both Bea and I slept during it, and I think the teacher did, too. But I don't know. I don't sleep with open eyes. It wasn't the cosiest place I could imagine to sleep at, but still it felt like Heaven after only 5 hours of sleep in two days.

This is probably the ugliest picture of me ever made, but still the only one with the lads.♥

[I meant the only displayable one.]