The Saturday of May 23, 2026, was truly eventful for Kaposvár Group 3. First, the children had a reading comprehension class with Péter Kántor, for the third time this semester. During the lesson, they processed and discussed several texts, and at the end of the session, they filled out a very interesting and special bingo sheet. The bingo sheet listed various human traits, and they had to collect as many signatures as possible from their groupmates regarding what characterized them. The winner—meaning the one who got BINGO!—was the person who managed to collect 4-4 signatures in a vertical or horizontal row. After that, with parental help, we welcomed the children with fresh pancakes, for which we give grateful thanks to Szilvi and Anita. Then they filled out the logic tests, but even after that, they had enough energy left to be active and creative during the following drama session.
Máté Varga, mentor, Kaposvár Group 3
No matter how much experience I have (and this can now be defined by a number of forty years), I always prepare seriously for drama classes; truth be told, the first consideration is primarily the question of where I want to get from and to on a given occasion, and I assign and write down the drama conventions and games for myself accordingly. I still write them down… And from time to time, it happens that I put aside my lines, written down suddenly or after much reflection, and let myself react freshly to the events and play with the participants, when the game simply carries me away as well. These are moments of grace in the game. The weekend session with the youngest members of Kaposvár Group 3 was just like that. The more than two hours spent together was a joy, during which the children expressed themselves and their peers very honestly and courageously, accepting the responsibility for it, through the “truth-telling hat.” This is because whoever stepped into that role – by putting on a hat – had to answer the questions addressed to them honestly. Asking important questions in a cultured manner is not easy; it is not easy to find the sentence that is informative and yet tactful. We learned a lot about each other, openly revealing small and larger secrets to one another. But we played with the same seriousness yet lightheartedness during the educational drama as well, where our focus question was: what does active action and giving help mean in a situation that might also bring discomfort to us? The players found diverse solutions to the question, highlighting the most important one for me from the several conclusions: there are no, and cannot be any, boundaries to the willingness to act when it comes to a person in trouble. We just couldn’t stop or close the topic, and we are all very much looking forward to the continuation.
Angéla Sárközi, mentor, Kaposvár Group 2