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The end of the camp is coming quickly, but we still have plenty of news! Lots of things happened since the last is-sue of ConCo News: we checked out the sports and water programs, and we decided to help the community by taking part in social responsibility day. We didn’t want to miss out on the secrets of modern technology, so we stopped by the High Tech Village. We’ll be sharing our experiences with you in the newest issue of ConCo News.

On the 8th of August we celebrated ourselves, because for the tenth time the scouts of Central Europe camped to-gether in unity. We received our guests from the Hungarian government and other guests as well with great hospitality.

We hope that you’ll go home with more things than you came with (friendship, knowledge, etc.) and you can invest these new things at home. I’m grateful I could be with you in the past ten days, thank you and be prepared!

Kristóf Réder – KikoHead of the Communiaction Team

Interesting things

Interview withRéka Paczolay

Water Challenge

High Tech world

Social program

Miklós Réthelyi is on CC.

Dear readers and illiterats!

4th edition • Aug 9th

Ceremonial dayThe morning started as usual: the ConCor-dia song blasted in our sleepy ears from the radio, at precisely 7 o’clock. Soon we were munching breakfast in our subcamps and then we began preparing for the 9 o’clock ceremonial mass. By that time we already had many visitors in the camp.

After the mass and lunch everyone had the opportunity to participate in the Walk-In Activities (e.g.: teahouse, massage sa-loon, pancakery, Inn) – luckily the cold and rain didn’t frighten anybody away.

Meanwhile the GastroFest began, where each nation prepared its own traditional food, so that the others could taste it. Ev-eryone continued the day well-fed and hap-py. Another great program in the after-noon was the nations’ performances, when they introduced themselves.

We had a special guest in the afternoon: Miklós Réthelyi, Hungarian human resourc-es minister.

After dinner we celebrated the 10th birth-day of Central European jamborees at the arena. As usual, an awesome party be-gan afterwards, starring the Szabó Ba-lázs Band. After the great night, everyone went to sleep happily, with many new expe-riences.

Ceremonial day

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- What’s your job here in the camp?- I organize the supplies and food. In the first three days I also worked in logistics, so we did lots of things to-gether. Now, at the end of the camp, I have a little time to rest after breakfast and lunch.- How do you put the menu together?- We were very tight on money, but we always tried to in-troduce Hungarian gastronomy into the main plate – for example that’s why we ate tokány and paprikás krumpli during the camp. We tried to think of Muslims as well, had more poultry and tried to serve one-plate meals.- When do you eat?- After everybody else finishes with breakfast and dinner. I eat the same thing as the campers.- Who works with you?- Anna is my deputy; Bözsi and Barbi are in charge of the Pancakery.

- How many of you are there?- Two from the staff, 12 IST members and some other scouts who come to help a little.- How does a day look like for you?- IST works 4 hours a day, everyone else 8 hours. They patrol around the camp with radios 24/7. The night shift is the hardest so after that we usually rest in the morning.- What kind of problems did you have in the camp?- Luckily we didn’t have any serious incidents, but there were many conduct problems, especially when it came to going to bed in time at night. Still, we tried to handle the nighttime lovebirds discretely. The other problem is with the parking rules… for example they shouldn’t park in the middle of the camp.- Did anything funny happen?- Well the “summersaults” performed by the security members in the mud during the night shifts are quite funny – we’re also people. We also had someone getting ready for sleep when a deer stuck its head in the window and started chatting with him. We had to use petards to keep the deer away from the camp. And in a Dutch area a refrigerator using gas exploded, but probably everyone heard that.

You said it...

Interview with Réka Paczolay

Csergő – leader of security

- What’s the camp like?- Awesome! The programs are amazing, and ev-eryone’s so friendly! Two days ago we were at the water program, where we fell in the water. To-day we had the social responsibility day and visited elderly people where we sang songs. In exchange we got plenty of cakes and we heard stories about scouts before 1948. The ConCordia Radio is also awesome, the DJ is great!

Intresting

Story

Numbers from the camplife:

Food:1 000+ glasses of jam600+ kgs of sugar2 700 buns/day158 kgs of bread/day

Campsite:1 600 liters of diesel385 000 liters of water280 000 liters of sewage30 m3 wood3 500 m2 mud700 m temporary waterpipesand about 1 100 smiling faces!

Dear Campers!

You can discover a new world! We haven’t chosen the best society yet, but maybe we’ll find it in the next civilization! Go and discover the world!

- Why is social responsibility important for you?- Because with little work we can really help those, who are in need of it. It also provides a great op-portunity for both participants and organizers for self reflection.- Do the participants understand the meaning of this program?- It’s not guaranteed. It depends on how the partici-pants and IST who work there go to work, positively or negatively. It also depends on the site they’re working at. I’m glad, if at least a few people get the message. But worst comes worst, the participants take part in a team spirit building program!- So how does this whole thing work?- We have 9 different locations: fence and window painting, gardening, garbage collection, playground restoration, putting community parks in order, clear-ing rubbish, and visiting elderly people. A handful of organizations and companies provided us with resources, for example the Hungarian Maltaese Charity Service.

-Outside of camp do you also work with similar things?-Yes, I study at the Bánki Donát Me-chanic Engineering at the Óbuda University as a safety engineer.-What kind of feedback did you get?-Staff members gave very good reac-tions. First it started with some dif-ficulties, but soon everything went smoothly. The participants said that they enjoyed the High Tech World, especially the puliszka experiment. The safety expo-sition and the solar collector also interested many people. It was good to see how the children were really interested in how to live energy-wise and how to help protect the environment.-You mentioned the puliszka experiment, what is this?-Puliszka is very simple: it’s corn flour mixed with water, but I don’t know the ratio, you have to mix it with feeling. This was obviously the main attraction, it was really good!-How interesting did the kids from the XXI. Cen-tury find the technical stuff?-I myself was very surprised, because I thought the scouts from Taiwan wouldn’t be very interested in this stuff, but actually they were the keenest. They took many pictures, and they were always amazed, when something beeped or turned on. One of my

goals here at the ConCordia was to get more peo-ple interested in my field of work, because I think in today’s world, these gadgets are needed more and more.-Finally could you please list what opportuni-ties participants had on your program?-You could see a video on engineering safety in-side the tent and you could also draw with sound in there. You could build a beer collector or you could get familiar with a solar collector. Partici-pants could look at stars through a telescope with Dani Veréb. They looked at the sun when there weren’t any clouds, and in bad weather they took part in a 3D picture viewing, and we heard a presentation on fair trade.

- Did you have good weather?- We had some sunny times, but most of the time we got water from above and below. - Where did you canoe?- On the Danube, near Lupa Island, through the Tündér branch, and finally we stopped at a goose field, where we played with water scouts. For example we played water military games and the Dutch held a huge mud fight.- How many people fell in the water with a canoe?- Sometimes we had 6-7 canoes going under daily, but luckily everyone was calm when it happened.- In conclusion, how did the program go?- I think it was great, the participants really had a good time!

Water challenge - Interview with Iringó Schuilek

András Rege - Interview

Sabina’s notes„Good Morning ConCordiaaa! Come out of your warm, dry tents into the wet world real-ity.” I’m really going to miss Tamás’s wakeup calls, and yes, it rained again.

Yesterday however, the sun decided to show its face for a while. The timing was perfect, as it was the day I went to the social work program. It was a nice experience, es-pecially because this is what I study. I was sent to a playground on Solymár street, study, together with a troop from Poland, and scouts from the Chain Bridge troop in Buda-pest.

We were lucky that way, because even if they hadn’t been in that part of Buda, they man-aged to find the place. Our work wasn’t very hard, and the nice kids running around, saying hello made it even eas-ier.

At one point, when one of the boys was shoveling the sandbox, they gathered and cheered every time he would find a toy. On the bus, on our way back, I fell asleep think-ing that maybe we had more to win and learn out of this, than the community we’ve helped, and I was thankful for that.

Interview with Eszter Tamási

- What kind of change can you hope for from this?- We can change the way people look at scouts and the participants can notice that they live in a community. Personal success isn’t the most important, the com-munity is much more important.- Tell us something interesting that happened at the program!- When we were collecting trash at the Csobánka River, we found a TV set and a refrigerator.

Pictures of the day

ImpressumEditors: András Czinege, Márta Gresz, Kristóf Réder • Design, layout: Miklós Harsányi • Layout editor: Hunor Beli-czai • Proofreader: Márton Simonkay • Photos: Gábor Klósz, Péter Szvoboda, Máté Havasi, Márton Szovák, István Kolonics, Júlia Vértes, Csilla Kinga Szabó, Csilla Szabó, Gergey Molnár, Tamara Németh • Translators: Tamás Kriváchy, Hajnalka Tóth • Website: Ákos Kriváchy, Published by ConCordia 2010Media Team • www concordia2010.hu And finally… The ConCo News’ editorial would like to thank you for your

attention. We wish you all a nice and happy life, and have fun making paper

airplanes. *Cheering and applause*(By the way we’re very tired and miss our moms!)