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Some new friends I made
March 2008
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 My
name is Zoltán Varga, I am a gold medallist wrestler, and I have
been a devoted “moonlighter” since the beginning. I would like
to introduce you some friends I met and made during the winter
programmes of Moonlight Clubs. First of all I need to mention
Gyöngyvér Kiss (next to me in the photo), a fourth-year student
at the Teacher Training Faculty who runs the English language
workshop at the American Corner Moonlight. She does it in a
dynamic, interesting and interactive way, enriching the learning
of English language and culture with lots of great, creative
ideas. If all subjects at school were taught this way, they
would be much more interesting to learn and time would fly by
much faster. In ACM, it flies by extremely quickly, although we
do learn and work a lot. Gyöngyvér is assisted by Nataša Pucar,
a university student of English language, who is also very kind
to us, and corrects the slips we make not only in English, but
in Serbian too. They both deal with us voluntarily, which I
thank them very much.
I’m not sure if I may call retired teacher Anna Mertel, the lady
who runs the handicraft workshop of Moonlight Clubs, my friend,
but I do feel I made good friends with her too, and believe it
or not, in spite of being a wrestler (94 kilos youth category),
with her help I really took to doing handicraft.
This winter a lot of new kids turned up at our clubs, and among
them many Romas too. They appeared suddenly and in larger
groups. I must admit in the beginning I myself felt a bit of
aversion to them, but since they are very cheerful and
easy-going, we soon found the common language – that of games
and sports. Rusdi, Muhamed, Muhabbet, Baki and the others like
playing table football and the electronic darts we received from
the Fornetti factory in Subotica. They are not so keen on
playing ping-pong, instead they much rather listen to their own
hip-hop music, to the rhythm of which they can perform quite
spectacular dances. We tried to find a sponsor for them to help
in creating a Roma band called Moonrap, and in providing them
continuous training in music and dancing, but unfortunately we
were turned down. Nonetheless, we are not giving up, because
they can express themselves best through the special language of
their culture, which is music and dancing, and in their case
this special form of communication has no alternative.
Zoltán Varga,
Eight form student
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