Germany with the Eyes of a Hungarian (English version)
written by Levente Lakatos, Daniel Toth
Okay, so we are a group of youngsters coming from the beautiful country of Hungary, with the intention of exploring the world and getting to know other people with same or similar interests and ways of looking at life. A wise man once said, that by getting to know other countries, you get to know your own home much better, in other words, you can only see your house, if you go outside.
So I'm just going to begin with our journey to Bad Marienberg. Our very long journey to Bad Marienberg... was like 19 hours long... Having only stopped five times and having been trapped in a 5m² bus we had quite high expectations of this place. And I must admit, that Europahaus and Germany met them all.
As we were about to arrive, we started noticing a very very different ecostructure from the one in Hungary: we started seeing brand new BMWs instead of the Ladas we are used to in Hungary, we started seeing houses without fences and we started to get into a state of mind, in which we were open to any kind of interaction even with foreigners.
During the first "introduction" night we managed to get a sense of who were going to be the leading personalities of each group, and made our first friendships. At that point we realised, that this is a group of many open minded people, who are capable of accomplishing pretty much anything in a very short amount of time.
The second day we visited Frankfurt, which I believe the second biggest city I`ve ever been to. Pretty impressive, huh? The sheer size of the buildings amazed us so much, that we have shared like 3141592 PIctures on social media about Frankfurt architecture. Going into the presentation room in the Central bank, the first surprise struck us: As we were talking to each other in Hungarian in the elevator, the presentor just introduced himself as Martin, from Kaposvar, Hungary. Yes, the guy talking 2 hours straight, without a break was a fellow Hungarian of ours, who`s been living here for 4 years, and calls Frankfurt his home by now.
Next day we had many interesting programmes at Europahaus, but the most interesting part of our day was meeting a Hungarian car mechanic in a supermarket uphill, who said that he`s been living here for 7 years, of which 4 with his family, and now he calls Frankfurt his home . In the night I also got to know the Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan people better, and to my surprise, they -if i can say that- are even more open mindend than other people here in the camp.
On Friday the team already was together, but after the morning workshops climbing together was an absolute delight, and finally we could challange not only our minds, but our bodies as well. It`s pretty fun, how one can get to know people during such unusual situations, and how it helps one to feel "more home" at a normally unknown place.
Overall I can say that this seminar has been one of the best experiences of my life, and it was so great to meet so many awsome people with so many awsome thoughts. I definitely think, that if I have the opportunity, I will come back next year.
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