Active Monday

(Feverish deliberations. The lady in purple, Sophie, was one of the Dutch winners of the debate. Alice, in the middle, also won)

(Speech of Moeaz)

(The speech of the vice-mayor of the district)

(preparations for the debate in the Egnlish library)




Debate part I

Today was the day that we had the debate at the City council. Our group was a mixed group with Dutch people and Hungarians and we had to agree upon the resolution: War criminals should be forgiven.

As you all might know we went to the House of Terrors. There we saw what happened to the people here during and after the war. We used this of course as a source of inspiration to make up our arguments. I had to speak as the first person and told the audience about the video I saw and the old man that told that he could not forgive. I hoped of course that the audience would be convinced by my arguments. (Moeaz delivered a very fine speech, he started f.i. by explaining very clearly what a war criminal was and he also was very mean when he said that the war criminals shoudn’t be punished but should not be forgiven either AR)
Now that I type this I hope that we have won. We will win because the other group has a very difficult position to defend. So I hope, now that you are reading this, that we have won the debate.
(Unfortunately Moez’ team didn’t win ….)
Moeaz Ramadan


This is Monday morning and we are debating in the City Council of the 18th district of Budapest. The topics are really interesting and we heard serious and challenging arguments about whether we should forgive war criminals or not, and about the climatic and social problems.
Fortunately the first issue is closely related to the House of Terrors which we visited on Saturday. It was an eye-opener experience for many of us. We could talk about war crime in the knowledge of that we were shown in the exhibition. It was shocking.
We are looking forward the other programs of today as well, we will see the Buda Castle and Citadel. We are really proud of these, as they are one of the most beautiful buildings of Budapest ;they played a significant role in our national history.
What is more, we will have lunch in Trofea restaurant and eat as much as we can
Juracsek Kata, Kovacs Vivien


Debate part II

‘Social inequality is a bigger problem than the climatic crisis’
“It don’t matter if you’re black or white, as Michael Jackson stated. While we agree with him, unfortunately many people do not”, is how Sophie started the second debate. According to the affirmative party, climate change is a big problem but social inequality is even bigger. Many examples were given, such as women and men, racism, and the gypsies in Hungary who are still very much discriminated.
The negative party told us a story. “Imagine you are in Holland, standing on the dijk, the water splashing against your knees. The year is 2110, and you think by yourself: Why oh why didn’t our ancestors step in…”
The government can’t control social inequality, but they can prevent more climatic changes. If we don’t step in on time most of the people living in areas under sea level will die. Besides social inequality has been survived by mankind for many years, the climatic crisis might become fatal for all of us.
But even

So then the affirmative side replied in their rebuttal: “we should be unified in order to save the world.”


Esther Kohen and Ida Blom