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Intercultural Competence
‘Oh the Hungarians, they are so arrogant! So ignorant! So proud, but of what?! And sooo depressed!’
When people get together from different cultures, they are often not as happy or content as they could be. Read more »
Libraries with English Books
Budapest Christian Library
Address: Gellert ter 1, 1111
Phone: +36 (1) 365 2483
Email: budapestlibrary@cs.com
Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library
- it now has the collection of the British Council Library
Address: 1088 Budapest, Szabó Ervin tér 1.
A great place to get books in English.
Website: www.fszek.hu
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Travel Agencies
Aeroviva Utazási Iroda, a travel agency that also has a super friendly English speaking staff. Besides the fact that they have complimentary chocolate bars at their front desk, they are efficient and can be your first choice. Discount travel, gift certificates. They work hard to find troublesome tickets. From Deák tér go to Károly körút and it will be on the left a couple blocks down.
Address: 1075 Budapest, Károly krt. 11.
Phone: (+36-1) 4-86-86-86
Fax: (+36-1) 4-86-86-00
Email: aeroviva@aeroviva.com;
Website: www.aeroviva.com
ConnecTicket Utazási Ügynökség, Bernadett Molnar; They speak good English. Great for last minute!
Address: 1052 Budapest, Szép utca 2.
Phone: (+36-1) 317-3717
Fax: (+36-1) 483-1826
Email: connecticket@mail.galileo.hu;
Travel Unlimited has been a favorite with friendly and helpful service. Also offers inexpensive air tickets. Red metro to Astoria and it’s on the second floor of the West
Business Center. Karen Bryce (owner)
Address: Rákóczi út 1-3. East-West Office Center, Karen Bryce (owner);
Phone: (+36-1) 266-8919;
Fax: (+36-1) 266-6875
Email: travelunlimited@pronet.hu;
Website: www.travelunlimited.hu
Vista Travel busy place, but cheap air ticket.
Address: MOM Park, level1, shop #63, 1123 Budapest, Alkotás út 53/a
Phone: +36 (1) 201 4546
Fax: +36 (1) 201 4551
Email: mompark@vista.hu or airtickets@vista.hu;
Website: www.vista.hu
Public Transportation in Budapest
Budapest has an excellent, thorough and efficient system of public transportation, which includes buses, trams, three subway lines called Metro, and electric trains called HÉV, which travel to suburbs such as Szentendre. Read more »
How to be a Yank – The American Century
How to be a Yank – excerpts
by George Mikes
THE AMERICAN CENTURY
The position of the American in his own estimation. The curvature of the earth’s surface renders it impossible to observe this position without some distortion of perspective. The possible margin of error in the above diagram is about the width of the Atlantic Ocean.
But can we trust them as leaders? . . . When I was a small boy we used to play football every Saturday afternoon in the field (it would be called the village green in England). Our centre forward was always the same little boy, let’s call him Sammy. There was always a great deal of argument as to who should be in the team and what position one or another boy should occupy. But there was never any argument about the position of the centre-forward. It had to be Sammy. He was not a very good player; he could not use his left foot at all. But he wanted to play centre-forward and centre-forward he played. The ball belonged to him.
- excerpt from How to be a Yank by George Mikes
How to be a Yank – How to Die
How to be a Yank – excerpts
by George Mikes
HOW TO DIE
“Why, Elmer, its perfect!”
- excerpt from How to be a Yank by George Mikes
How to be a Yank – The Language
How to be a Yank – excerpts
by George Mikes
THE LANGUAGE
It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.
- excerpt from How to be a Yank by George Mikes
Hungarian is a way of life
Hungarians have never built pyramids, ruled slave empires, and conquered new worlds. They are a proud, strange and lonely people.
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Hungarian Humanism
How does humanism reveal itself in Hungarian history and civilization?
Hungarians have always been known for their thirst for knowledge: an important humanistic attribute. Their attitude towards foreign cultures has always been that of sympathetic curiosity: they accepted their inspiration and adapted them to their own tastes. Read more »
Keeping One’s Given Word
Personal and national honor or integrity is a cardinal virtue in the Hungarian moral spectrum. Keeping one’s given word is an obligation overriding most other considerations, including political expediency. This is why the Hungarians never changed sides during international conflicts, however advantageous it may have been to do so. Read more »
Defenders of Christian Europe?
Hungarians like calling themselves the “Defenders of Christian Europe’ for having fought the eastern and southern pagan aggressors for a thousand years. Read more »
Attitude Toward Life
The proverbial Magyar dissension and lack of perseverance are probably the legacy of those Turkic tribes which frequently formed short-lived nomadic empires bent on the conquest of the world and soon in collapse for no apparent reason. The dreamy, unrealistic optimism, the expectation of miracles is, perhaps, a tradition handed over by the stargazing poets of Mesopotamia. Read more »
When You Feel Inadequate…
For the LORD your God is a merciful God, He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
- Deuteronomy 4:31
But You, O LORD, are a shield for me,
My glory and the One who lifts up my head.
- Psalm 3:3
My voice You shall hear in the morning, O LORD;
In the morning I will direct it to You,
And I will look up.
- Psalm 5:3
Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident.
For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.
- Psalm 27:3,5
It is better to trust in the LORD
Than to put confidence in man.
- Psalm 118:8
He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
- Isaiah 40: 29-31
Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
- Isaiah 41:10
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
Nor shall the flame scorch you.
- Isaiah 43:2
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
- John 14:18
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
That the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
Receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
- 1 Peter 1: 6-9
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Origins of the Hungarian Ethos
The original tribal Hungarians developed a durable and strong national identity at the earliest stage of the Hungarian migrations. The original tribal group, which had set out on these migrations during the last millennium B.C., formed a viable nucleus for the future nation. Read more »
“Real” Hungarians Don’t Exist
The Hungarians who settled in the Carpathian basin represented a composite, multi-racial, multi-cultural and multilingual nation. This complexity was the result of prolonged contacts of varying intensity with many European and Asian races and cultures during the centuries of the Hungarian migrations. Read more »
Hunreal
According to the definition in urbandictionary.com, ‘ hunreal’ means unreal, but more so… like ultra-unreal… Hunreal also feels like ‘awesome’ and ‘cool’ to me.
Say it, write it, spead it. Begin the hunreal revolution!
Wait… ’spead’ is to almost speak a language that is mixed with another language.
i.e. hunglish
Playhouse in Downtown Budapest
Mazsola Playhouse, open in downtown Budapest since the spring of 2005, caters to the needs of children aged between 0-4 years. Read more »
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This is actually my very first post on WordPress. I moved all my files from Typepad and I am looking forward to settle down comfortably in this new WordPress blog home with excitement. Once I will be able to handle WordPress, I will write about (among other things) Read more »
Referendum a Success; Fees to be Abolished
Hungarian voters rejected nominal medical fees and post-secondary tuition fees by a overwhelming margin in Sunday’s referendum, as 82-84% of those who turned out opposed the charges. Read more »
