Log-book: 11th August

Today was about preparing and realizing the bonfire. After breakfast we went up to the Unitarian church, where we started with physical training the day. After having warmed up our body parts, we warmed up our voices too, and at the lake all morning we were practicing some Hungarian and Danish songs, all the mountain resounded them.

All of a sudden the noise of a car interrupted the music, a policeman stopped by, who told us with our invitation card in his hand, that we cannot hold the party in the evening, if we didn’t arrange the police, the ambulance, and even the firemen for the venue. The communication was not easy, because none of the interpreters were there with us, and the policeman could only talk in Romanian. So Bálint had to get into the car, and go down to the interpreters. Thanks God, with their and Sorin’s and Csongor’s help we got the permission for the evening. After the singing we split up in groups, some were collecting woods, and we started to prepare the most important part of the evening: the game machine.

About six in the evening the guests started to arrive (we tried to invite as many of locals as possible). Andrei was already baking the Romanian sausages called “mitches”, some of us were preparing the bonfire. We served wine and talked with the guests, sometimes only with arms and legs... When enough people have arrived to the lake (we were quite a lot, and some of the locals opened even a little bar, they were selling drinks), first we sang a Spanish song, “El Cantante”. After that the game started. The volunteers could play “rock-scissors-paper” with Fanni, or “pen to the bottle” with Esther (a pen was hung on the waist of somebody, and he had to put it in a bottle without using his hands). Laila, Andrea and me put our faces into the wholes of the paper boxes that we had prepared, so in the machine. If the volunteer won in one of the games, could push the arm of the machine (Andrea’s arm), and after shaking a little bit our heads, we made a smiley, a sad or a surprised face. If we had the same expressions, we gave a song, a circus attraction or an evil trick... In the beginning the guests came a little bit uneasily to play, but after a while the machine started, and I think they really enjoyed playing together. When we finished with the machine, in the rest of the evening we served mitch, we talked to them and played music.

Really a lot people gathered there this evening, and I really enjoyed that we are so different in nationalities, in the age or in our interests. Rózsika néni came, who was happy to talk in Hungarian, Zénó bácsi was giving us palinka with a huge smile on his face, Kornya who, as usually, sang to us.... After we left the lake, we closed the evening in the pub in the square, playing with children, drinink with the actors from Cluj and some locals. (Szenteczki Zita)