Hi,

I'm still alive, don't worry if you did (but maybe you haven't noticed my inactivity at all ) it's just examing-time. I hope so I'll finish this thursday (if I can do the last 2 exams at first time ) and then I'm planning go to the Danube shore and take some photos.

Untill then I tell you my last 'festival experience'. There was a 3 days long folklore festival in Miskolc, in the Castle of Diósgyőr. I went on Friday (6th) and Sunday (8th). Friday there was Ghymes and they were wonderful. They're professionals in music I can tell. When Szarka Tamás started to play 'Csengő Csángó' on the violine it made my flesh creep. They played many of my favourites so we called them back 2 times.
One of my friends arrived almost at the end of the concert, he was a little bit drunk. xD 'I wanted to bring you Cinzano and wine but I drank the whole' he said. x) Then, after the concert we sat down at a restaurant (or something like that) in the castle and drank some >bodzapálinka<. Well, maybe Peti shouldn't do that...he got a little bit sick. We arrived home definetly slower then we used to. (That's beacuse the road wasn't so straight as it should be for Peti. xD)

On Sunday I went to the Castle again. That friend didn't come who I talked to so I went in alone. Fortunately I met some other familiar. There was Balkan Fanatik that night. Most of the audience sat on the seats, only some of them were at the stage. However, the members of Balkan Fanatik didn't care and they enjoyed their own concert very much. Well, you can see theese times if somebody do this for music itself or for money.
After that I wanted to go but my friend said the next one will be good as well so I stayed for Csík zenekar too. I wasn't disappointed. First they played >real< folk music from XVIII-XIX centuries then - because that's their real profile - some 'folk music changed' Kispál & the Borz tracks.

I have to say the Castle was a really good place for all this festival, it had got a special atmosphere.

So I haven't uploaded pictures for a while. Spring is here, nature is beautiful and I don't take photos. I just haven't got time and inspiration go out and do that. Family problems, tasks at university...I would like walk a little bit in my favourite valley (where I took my winter pictures too) but I just can't do that. Maybe in the summer...

Monday I was on PaganFest in Budapest and it was fantastic! It started at 5 pm and finished at 1 am, so it was really tiring, but I enjoyed it. At Ensiferum my friends pulled me into the crowd but I didn't mind it. Eluveitie was a little bit disappointing beacuse I barely heard the folk instruments and it seemed like they eren't use to live performances. Maybe because it's a relatively new band I think they will get use to it.
The first I could hear was Dalriada (at Bornholm I just stood in the queue) and they were wonderful in live version too. The last - and I think the best - was Korpiklaani. About 00:30 am I thought my waist will split off but I didn't mind that and stayed untill the end.
That's a pity so Turisas didn't come.

On Tuesday I saw the Sweeney Todd movie and believe me it's amazing. Some people say singing makes it worse but I think every actor and actress has nice voice and singing doesn't make lesser the feeling. It's twisted, wicked and terrible. I like Johnny Depp very much as well as Tim Burton so when they work together that can be only a fantastic film.
I recommend Sweeney Todd for everybody. There much blood and cruelty but it tells about vendetta. Overhelming atmosphere, fascianating play-acting, costumes, and great songs.

I was on a 5 days long anthropology fieldwork again. Now I went to Fedemes, a village 35 km from Eger to the North. It has a population of 389 persons and many people live the village every year. There are very few work places and young people go to other places. Transport is bad too there are 3 bus srevices to Eger /day. However people of Fedemes don't want they village extint and they would make some upgrade there to make life better and induce young ones to stay.
We had to make interviews about their feelings about their home, their plans and notions about living in Fedemes and their advices about changes. The other kind of interviews were about family photos, we had to ask them to search tehir photographies and tell us about their life and family. So we could know them, their life, the past and present of the village.
At the evenings we went to the inn (for search interview persons, of course, khmmm.... ) and the last evening our teacher Csaba arrived too (well, he's not an avarage teacher; he loves beer and unicum very much as we got known ; and he doesn't mind if he gets drunk as we got known ) and we could convince the innkeeper of keeping the inn opened longer (other days it closed at 21.00 pm). The consequence was the drinking of a larger amount of alcohol than other days. ^^ Then we went back to the quarters and...continued drinking, khm. We went sleepn about 1.30 am.
Before you think we just drank the whole week I should tell you so we did our task and did all thw interviews we had to. The last night well...a goodbye-party needed.