Hi exchangers,

it seems a very long time since I posted my last challenge. To be honest, I was  missing the Hungarian enthusiasm to find out the answers.

So, today I brought you a little bit of our history.  Can you tell me where can you find this castle? Does it mean anything to the Portuguese history? Is it associated with someone important?

Good luck

While Eugénia doesn’t post a new challenge (it’s good too see all the curiosity of the Hungarian group about coming here ), I’m inviting all to see some updates published on our European Club website – some of them you already know: Hungarian Inventions and Me & My Exchange Partner, but the Portuguese also wrote some theme reports on the experiences they had while they stayed in Budapest. Have a look

click to see Hungarian inventions article

click to see Me & My Partner

click to read some exchange reports

Hi exchangers,

This time I brought you some colourful houses, for you to tell me where can you find them (village /town). Then (after you had guessed) I would like the Portuguese group to ad some information about this region of Portugal, once we won’t have the opportunity to visit it.

Good luck

Eugénia

After five long minutes of thinking about what you could appreciate in Portugal, it ocurred to me, that you may like the sea. Am I wrong? Would you like to go to the beach? Well, if you behave, and give your contribution to the blog, we (the teachers) may think about it.

So, your first task is to discover the name of this beach and its location too.



Good luck to all of you,

Kisses,

Eugénia

Hi exchangers,

do you remember the Portuguese contest? Well the most attentively ones I’m sure they do. The first edition -I mean before Budapeste- is done, and guess what? Petra was the winner.  She gave me the best answers for my questions, so she won a little present.

A book and a CD. Not bad at all for a few answers. This time I would like to have some more participants.

During the week I might publish something else, so keep an eye on it!

See you exchangers

Eugénia

We are having 35 cms fresh snow in case anybody feels bored by Portuguese sunshine and is planning to come back here

As my team partner, Eugénia, said it has been difficult even for very grown up teachers coming back to work after such an intense and funny week. But a part of this work can be pleasent, like sharing with others the experience we had. So, I invite you all to have a look at the the best/worst things the Portuguese exchangers registered on our flight back, as well as a small gallery from the 10.000 photos we got from Bp

And Hey! Hungarian exchangers, how come you don’t turn such pleasent and sweet comments into more visible posting?  Guess by now everybody has got an invitation to log in again. If there’s still any problems, I’m here to help

Fernando

click here to get to the gallery

Since I came back to Portugal I’ ve had an hard time to come back to real life, and I’m really thinking about going back to Hungary And I’m really sure I’ll find out 17 more kids to go with me

I was so used to have 17/34 kids around me that now I’m feeling a little bit lonely.

Obrigada Hungarian team for being such wonderful hosts.

I would like to publish here all my pictures but it is not possible because I have a few (1100 pictures) So I had great difficulty to choose 2 or 3 good ones. They are all good and special . Of course that there’s one that is the most special one, because  it shows something that nobody will ever forget: their partners.

Kisses for this wonderful team.

I’ll be back soon to talk about Portugal (now it’s time for us to be good hosts).

Eugénia Nunes

The best week of my life (L)
I will never forget Budapeste and I will never forget too the group (L)

On behalf of all the Portuguese group thanks to you all for the wonderful only 8 days we spent with you.  So, now we start counting down the days for you to come here, hoping you can have as much fun and unforgetable moments as we had there

Soon, we’ll be collecting all the pictures and I’ll publish links to the album,  the exchange report, evaluation and presentations the portuguese students did. I’ll also resend invitation to the Hungarian students once more for them to be able to publish on the blog.

A big hug to you all.

I wish you all a safe flight for tomorrow.

Maybe no snow and no sunshine, but we will all be waiting for you at the airport   :-)

Hey there, i was reading the blog, and i noticed that there is little information about portuguese music, so i am going to talk about it.

The portuguese traditional music is fado, it is a music based in the gitar and voice. The fado is played with the portuguese guitar.

some famous fado singers are Marisa, and Dulce Pontes.

Dulce Pontes

Marisa

Another famous portuguese music style, is the ”Pimba”.

It is regulary played with the achordeon, and with a electric piano.

Some Famous pimba singers, are Quim Barreiros, and Emanuel

Quim Barreiros

Emanuel

And in Portugal there is also some new music and tendences like Blasted Mechanism, that uses a lot of drums and is kind of esoteric, and Buraka Som Sistema, that is like dance.

Blasted Mechanism

Buraka som Sistema

João Pires.

I don’t really know what can I say about the transport but I will try it! I will just write about the basic things.

There are buses of course and there are trams. I think those are which all of you will travel by bacause these are those vehicles which take you near the school.

There are 3 metro lines and a fourth is in making.

These were the basic vehicles which most of the people use every day.

Also some of you maybe will travel by train. These are a little bit complicated, most of the problems are with the trains I think.

There are incline raliways which take you to the Buda castle.

Szép Tímea

Apparently the problem on posting with Hungarian exchangers could not be solved, so I’m posting on behalf of Tímea, who sent this text:

Traditional Hungarian dishes are primarily based on meats, seasonal vegetables, fruits, fresh bread, cheeses and honey. Recipes are based on centuries-old traditions around spicing and preparation methods. Hungarians are especially passionate about their soups, desserts and pastriespancakes (palacsinta) Other famous Hungarian dishes would be Paprikás (paprika stew, meat simmered in thick creamy paprika gravy) served with nokedli (small dumplings), Goulash, Gundel Pancake. different forms of vegetable stews called főzelék^[1] as well as cold fruit soups, like cold sour cherry soup- hideg meggyleves.

Meat, stews, steaks, roasted pork, beef, poultry, lamb or game and the Hungarian sausages (kolbász) and winter salami are a major part of Hungarian cuisine. The mixing of different varieties of meat is a traditional feature of the Hungarian cuisine.

Hungarian food is often spicy, as hot paprika is commonly usedstuffed peppers töltött paprika and stuffed cabbage called töltött káposzta.

Drinks:

The best-known wines are the white dessert wine called Tokaj (North-Eastern region of Hungary) (Tokaji) and the red vines from Villány (Southern part of Hungary).

Hungary’s most notable liquors are Unicum, a herbal bitters, and Palinka, a range of fruit brandies. Traubi or Traubisoda, is a Hungarian soft drink produced in  Balatonvilágos.

Some sweets:

Kürtőskalács Stove cake or Chimney cake, cooked over an open fire—a Transylvanian specialty, famous as Hungary’s oldest pastry.

Lekváros Bukta or Bukta (a baked dessert filled with jam, túró or ground walnuts).

Rétes (strudel)

Túró Rudi (sweet quark cheese – called túró – filled chocolate bar)

2 of Christmas sweets:

Szaloncukor -flavoured candies which hang on the Christmas tree, eaten at Christmas

Bejgli^[1] -cake roll eaten only at Christmas

Mezei Tímea

I will show you some pictures of some places in Portugal and I will tell you too what are the names of these places, for you can find some  information, if you want of course

So, in the first picture, we have the Serra da Estrela, this is the place where, sometimes , SNOW
In the second picture, we have the Serra de Sintra, and in Sintra we can eat one of the specialties of Portugal, the Pillows of Piriquita Hummm… so delicious!
In the third picture, we have Arrábida, where we have a magnificent beach
In the fourth picure he have the Serra do Gerês, where we have one of the most important national reserves of protected species
And last but not the least we have the Arriba Fóssil, that have a lot of  fossils of marine species.

Well I have an idea, and if we did a little game?

All of you agree?

So, I’ll explain the game:

- I tucked a few pictures here and the goal of the game is you say what is the monument in the picture

Have fun

Just missing 2 days
I can’t wait

The time passed so fast, fortunately.

I can’t wait to do all those things the program I’m so excited

Here is the quiz Márti put together, I am sure it will spice up the blog

View this document on Scribd

only now had the privilege of seeing the brilliant program we have = D
could already be on my way to Hungary :b

a few more days, and we’re on the plane en route to the best week ever: P

I just want to wish a Merry Christmas, with many gifts and lots of candy
And I take this opportunity to wish a Happy New Year and in January we, Portuguese Group , we’ll be there with you

Kisses and Hugs (L) ♥