Historical and Honorary Camp
On our way to Transylvania.
The day, which we very much have been waiting for finally came. Early in the morning we began our trip to Transylvania, to start off the historical and homeland studying camp in Csíkszereda. The 3rd group of Kaposvár met with the 1st group of Jászság. After a short break in Jászberény, we had lunch right before the Romanian border in Berettyóújfalu. Then we headed towards the border. Although there was still a long way ahead of us, the wonderful landscape of Transylvania made us forget the struggles of the trip. We arrived at our accomodation late in the night, where we were greeted with love and kindness. After finishing our delicious dinner we discussed the programmes of the upcoming day then everyone checked into their rooms to have a much needed good night sleep after the long lasting trip.
Transylvania day 2
Having rested after the long trip of yesterday we began our day with a lovely breakfast. With our guide Hortenzia Nemes we went to see the main sights of Csíkszereda. Angel church, the Square of Applauses and Mikó castle were our main destinations today. We expanded our knowledge with a lot of interesting facts and had the chance to visit a bunch of beautiful places. Meanwhile we also had time to eat icecream and have fun together. Before lunch we walked up to the museum of the county, where we got to know a lot of things about the everyday life of the local farmers. In the afternoon we played football in the Gábor Áron High School which we very much enjoyed doing. We are over a much entertaining and interactive day and are curiously waiting for the following days of the camp.
3. day
Because of the pouring rain we began our day at a wellness in Tasnádfürdő. It was very relieving to rest a little bit after our tiring year, so we would love to go back. The sun started to shine, so we left the spa. We went to see the local churches and than we continued the day with a delicious lunch. Our way led to a look-out tower where the lucky ones could spot a little bear. We visited the Nyergestetői-memorial and after that some people, who voluteered could go on a trip to the top of a mountain, where a really beautiful view waited for them. We went back to the acccomondation with some great experiance.
4th day at Transylvania:
5th day at Transylvania:
At Monday we started the day at Székelyudvarhely, where we visited the wars szekler victims’ memorial park and next to the monument we visited the bust of famous szekler people who influenced the hungarian history. They were hungarian kings, politics and princes. After that we visited the world wide famous Saltmine of Parajd, which by it huge sizes could supply the salt transport of Europe for years. We spend a small time here, and we could learn the history of the mine, about its mining history. After the cave we experienced the authentic szekler lunch, which was provided by the hosts’ family’s made homemade products. After lunch we visited Korond, where we could see the szekler craft industry beauties, speciality and we could by ourselves small thing from these products. For the end of the day we visited the grave of Áron Tamási at Farkaslaka, which became a place of pilgrimage, where we could resign our honour, for the hungarian and Transylvanian literature famous writer.
Bolyós Roland Márk, Nagy Dávid Martin
Jászság 1.
6th Day at Transylvania:
Today after the breakfast we started our day with free time activity at Csíkszereda. We visited many thing from the town’s centre the „Taps”- square and we could take part at many cultural events. We visited the town’s market, and we could go to the most beautiful markets under Nemes Hortenzia’s lead. We had the lunch at Csíksomlyó at “Csíksomlyói”-road in the Jakab Antal House, about which Horztenzia told us many interesting things. We learnt the house was the town’s hall, but the local szeklers didn’t want the town’s hall to be in the centre, so they moved out of the building, which is a guesthouse nowadays. After the tasty lunch we wnt to Tusnádfürdő, where we met with Balla Szabolcs, who show us the adventure park of Tusnádfürdő. We tried many paths and we had a great time at the edge of the “Tusnádi”-lake. After the adventure park we visited the nearby Hungarian church exhausted. The dinner we started on a special way, the late awakers compensate their fault by serving our dinner. We had a pretty great time, we are waiting the next day’s programs.
Bolyós Roland Márk
Jászság 1.
7th Day at Transylvania:
We started this day visiting the monument of madéfalvi scourge. Then we went to Lázár Castle which was closed unfortunately but we walked around it and had a tour in Szárhegy. The next station was a lookout tower where was a huge cattle horde. We were amazed by the view but we had to go to Red Lake where we hiked around the Lake in the rain. After the trip we had the opportunity to taste the local specialities like puliszka and miccs. We got to know that in Romania people often eat puliszka instead of bread. In Csíkdánfalva we visited the church, after that we tried the local spring’s medicinal water in Zsögöd. After all these trips the owner of Nagy Imre Gallery showed us the painter’s masterpieces and told us about his life. We finished the day with a short talk the whole week. Some of us also made a performance which guaranteed the great mood of the last night of the camp. Thank you for this wonderful week, everyone enjoyed staying here and we hope that next year we will have as memorable camp as this was.
hat was the first time when I taked part in a local history voltunteer camp like a group leader! In this camp I learned a lot, i was toghetet with a lot of children who take cares of each other ,all of them were appreciative and friendly! I was happy that i have to had introduced my homeland! That was interesting for the others who dont know nothing about my culture and history. For me is very important to accept each others too, and i was sucessfull with this group! I think this camp for me was a big discovery,I learned a lot about the history and about the other people life too! I think too this camp will memorable for the children and for me too! The pictures which taked during the camp are spoken themselves, everybody had done the exercises, not at the least about hiking too! Like volunteer I tried to collect the important information, and the items about the stations,which can expand,deepen the youngs range of vision! Of my greatest joy everybody was interested of my show and heard with opened ear! I hope the students get fancy too visit Transyilvania in the future too!:)
Hortenzia Nemes
It was my second time coming to the camp of the Csányi Foundation. Therefore when I got on the bus I met with familiar faces. Before the camp I never had the chance to travel to Transilvania so I was very excited. Although the place was wonderful for me the best part of the week was getting an inside view of the everyday life and situation of the guys at Csányi Foundation. My job was to translate the daily reports and looking after the others when we went to watch the World Cup in the evenings. Overall just as last year I am richer with a whole bunch of new experiences and memories which I am very greatful of. I really hope that next time I will be able to attend the camp as well.
Marcell Szalai