Curriculum Vitae

Name(s): Bálint Horváth

Gender: male

Nationality: Hungarian

Date of birth: 26/12/1988

Place of birth: Siofok, Hungary

Education: Tancsics Mihaly Secondary School, Kaposvar (2003-2007)

University of Pécs - majoring in English (2007- )

Certificates: "C"-type Intermediate English Language Certificate (2005) ; Advanced-level final examination certificate in English language (2007) ; Intermediate-level final examination certificate in Hungarian Grammar and Literature, Mathematics, History, and Geography (2007)

Interests:

• sports
• travelling
• parties
• foreign languages
• movies

Plans in the future: I wish to go on to study, develop my knowledge within languages and any other subjects. As for my possible job or workplace, I would work as a mediator at a company, or a translater in order to keep in touch with foreign partners. I also want to spend some time in abroad to get routine.

End?!

There is no continuation!? Unfortunately, me and "my" soccer squad fell out from "PTE-TTK CUP" last week. We cannot continue the contest. 'Nyerges FC' finished 3rd position in group B out of 5 teams.

To tell the truth, I am not so sad at present. However, it is a kind of drama how we failed to qualify for the next round. As I wrote earlier, I played some matches at night in the past. Almost every second Monday or/and Tuesday was a matchday. I joined a squad consists of older guys, we were running, fighting, passing, and fortunately scoring goals. Although the major part of the players did not meet regulary, we managed to create a team in which the members know eachother's way of playing soccer more or less. It was quite an advantageous act. Nyerges FC did not loose any of its games!! We had 1 wins and 3draws. Unfortunately, this result wasn't enough to qualify to the next, face-to-face round. 2 squads reached higher position.

Well.. the formula was given...We should 've won one of our 3 draws. Maybe the first one. Our first game in TTK Cup, against the weakest "club". Though, we knew eachother less that time, I guess.. Or the latest match!? They played last year's final, by the way.. So, it is not easy guessing after facts which happened. We played 2-2 against them, anyway. I would mention that almost every teams had at least one lost game out of those who went on playing. /From 2nd positions of each groups/. Interesting. :-) As the local newspaper, called "Univ Pecs" said: "...Nyerges gave its fate onto its own hands after made a won match into a draw.." We led, but the opponent team equalized 2 times. Or, as for the headline itself: "It is possible to fall out without having a lost game". Absolutely...We did the impossible :-D

All in all, it was a good chance to learn and develop. We can be better next year. Who knows?! Maybe we'll more luck and hance to play together. I don't know already whether the team will 'elongate my contact' or not. :-)

I think I did not do my best as I was exhausted and didn't have suitable physical condition during most of the games. Maybe more trainings will help. I am a hobby footballer, after all. ;-)

Rainbow and learning festival

My latest weekend had two faces. Firstly, I had a funny and interesting session on Friday (oh my god...you know guys?! :-))) after that I got the bus to Kaposvar with Chris. On the way home, I was thinking about my weekend, what should I do. I knew that in that two days my group mate, Keke visits and go with me to a concert of "30y". That band held a concert in "Rainbow Music-centre", Kaposvar on Saturday night.

However, I had to remember sitting on the bus that our group would write end term tests in Monday on sessions. I was afraid of this feeling, undoubtedly. That concert was a border.. I have understood since that time. Today, 26th November, we started to provide our knowledge on different tests and presentations. Unfortunately, it is the hardest part in my and my friends' University life. Not only because there'll be several exams soon, but also this situation and feeling in our brain and stomach is quite strange and new, I guess. It was running through my mind several times when I was singing songs of that band. Ohh.. it was pretty good, by the way. We had a great time, indeed.. Keke was in extasis sometimes, he was so glad to be that concert, I suppose.

Sunday... We got up at about midday.. oh dear :-)... had our lunch cooked by my mother. Delicious.. it was so. I felt my stomach getting smaller and smaller after that perfect food. We took our suitcase and went to the local bus station in "Kapos", got on the bus, and travelled back to Pécs.. On the way back, I tried to sleep a bit, without any success. After arriving my hired flat I continued learning my due, which I started he week before..

I did them today morning! Ohh not easy to say it. :-) The possible result? Mum's the word!! No comment. One of them is quite well-written, but the other is...I don't know. Maybe there are wonders. I 'm angry especially with myself. Cheers

Hungarian fan tour, Slovenian glory

As some of you know, I was in the nice city of Celje in Slovenia with my father last weekend. We took part in a foreign tour with the fans of "MKB Veszprém KC". Fortunately or unfortunately, it is not a simple and short-length story.

It is that I have been cherring for this handball team for a long time, believe it or not. Although soccer is closer to my interest, I watch several handball games on TV and live (especially in Nagyatád) as well. So, about a month ago, when Veszprém played its home game against the opponent Slovenian team called "Celje Pivovarna Lasko", me and my dad decided that we would travel to Celje. "Why not?"-we said. It isn't so far, we have a good car, and the match will be played on weekend. And of course we had always wanted to see our favourite handball club live again.

Consequently, my father called the main club office in Veszprém to ask for tickets and required information. Of course this procedure was not so easy we had thought before. They said that it is not solvable to get tickets and give them to us for its price. The man, who answered the phone was a member of the Club's stuff, recommended that we should phone a lady, who was responsible for making fan tours for ages. He finally gave us the lady's name and number. Some days later, I brought myself to phone her. I had a pleasant speaking with a 60-65- year-old elderly woman. She told me everything essential: Prices, dates, conditions.

As my father did not really like this way of getting to the match, I had to find someone to travel with. Fortunately, I know that one of my friends, an ex-classmate, would like my idea. It was so. He said "yes" at once. However, I asked him to think it over. A week later we came to an understanding. He is a real handball fan by the way, he used to play it. There can't be any problems, I said for weeks. Everything went perfectly. I managed to get accommodation in Veszprém, tickets for the match, seat in the fan coach, my parents let me travel etc.

Ohh..but that Friday...16 November..I was sitting on the bus, travelling home with my friend, Krisztian from Pécs. My phone was ringing, so I answered it. Ohh that he was..my ex -classmate.. He claimed that he wouldn't be able to participate in the fan tour. I felt that my breath stopped, I can't say a word neither. I was to start shouting, or something like that. I was just gazing at Krisztian. He didn't know what the hell was going on. In nutshell, Péter, the BME student from Balatonlelle, my ex- schoolmate said that he had to write several tests on Monday otherwise he would be kick out forever. He never was that diligent student in the past.. I believe him at present as well!! BUT I cannot think he hadn't know it at least 2 days before his calling??!! I had already reserved everything. Tickets, seat, hotel room and so on. He phoned me to late, you know. I was working too much to cancel everything I did. So, it became true that he would not go Sunday morning..

Though, at the beginnings it was impossible, but my father himself came with me to Celje. I am really grateful and proud of him, undoubtedly. Now it's sure that he is not only a good father, but also a great friend. It was a huge procedure for him to come, but he solved it.

So, firstly we went to Veszprém Saturday evening and stayed for a night. I was already excited there, of course. Next day, 18 November at 5 a.m, we had to go to the car park of the local sport shall. The 2 coaches ( a bigger one, attendance: 89, and a smaller one attendance: 49) were to leave from that place. It was just snowing and snowing.. Oh my God- I said quietly. Why today? When we travel abroad.. But we recognised that the tour would not be canceled as several people had appeared by 6.30 a.m. We had to wait for some fans but around 7 a.m we leave for Slovenia. On the way to Celje we had to stop many times as there were fans from other smaller villages who got on the bus later on. Consumption of beer were growing an growing so it was yet an other reason to stop very often. :-)

The situation didn't change during the tour. By 12 a.m we had reached the Hungarian-Croatian border where we were forced to stop for an hour, because the vast majority of the fans were got drunk and they said impolite words to the policeman and started to smoke. But we arrived to Celje, Slovenia at 3.45 p.m, singing fan songs in the bus and drumming. Everyone got off the bus and walked straight into the arena. The local fans bid us welcome. (It 's good to know that "Veszprém KC" and "Celje PL" fans are the closest friends within the handball society!). We changed scarfs and flags, drank beer together etc. Fair play, oh yeah.. it should be the same everywhere else!

Well, me and my father were watching this Champions League game live, in a huge arena (built some years ago, it fits for even 6000fans!!), with men and women from Veszprém, who were wearing suits and scarf of the team, as we did more or less, shouting and applauding all the time, unbelievable...indeed. It was one of my best experiences. Due to my father.. I would say that it was cruel, tiring, snowy but it worth without any doubt. Although the Hungarian team lost (23-28), and they may fall out from their group, I didn't mind travelling there. I have also many photos and a video record from TV. I am glad to tell it to you, but I had so good time, you know. I hope I 'll have chance to go to such a match in Veszprém or in abroad again, hopefully still in the Champions League. I am adult, I keep on organizing, and loving this team which is surely more than the local team of Veszprém..

"Partytime"!

We had a good time last Tuesday, indeed. It was that me and my friends found a billboard around the building of the University and the town itself. It said that there would be a party held in"B"-club in Pécs. It was an oldschool students' ball for free. We decided to go there.

However, firstly the whole group, who were to come with us, came to my hired flat to change clothes and prepare for the party night. Girls did make-ups, put up lipsticks while boys created funnier and funnier hairstyles. Everyone got on funny and old-fashioned clothes. My shirt and hair were maybe too funny and old-fashioned...:-) During that time, we, epecially my flatmate, David who is also a PTE student, took many photos. So we'll be able to laught at ourselves in the future, too.

After arriving to the club, a security guard asked us to show him our student cards. We got in, started to have good time. Sounds from the '60s, '70s and '80s were played, which were (and they are still) suitable for dancing. It was really great. But next day we all thought that during our preparing we drank and laughed more, than in the dance club itself. All in all, it was amazing! Moreover, it became clear that it does not matter how much alcohol we drink and where we are (in which party club). The only essential thing is to be together...

Another Nyerges..

I was there last weekend.. 9-11 November...in Nyergesújfalu, Komarom-Esztergom County. It is a small town near the Hungarian-Slovakian border. My parents and their group mates from University of Pécs (department of laws) meet each other at least once a year somewhere in Hungary. In these occasions their children are also allowed to be present. This year the fellowship held its annual meeting in Nyergesújfalu.

So, I took part in the party. Almost 20 people from the age of 45 to 47 and us, younger memmbers' got together in the detached house of a family. It was so great... to tell the truth it is always cool. I loved these programs in the past, too. I enjoyed them as I had chance to be and play with children I did not see regularly. Now, I still like these weekends, because I am always able to talk with adults about the same topic and make myself understood. I was brought up among adults. My father often took me to his fellowship to be with. I was thought how to behave, no problem.

Everyone was telling what had happened to them since our last meeting. I talked with both the parents and the teens. We decided that next time we, teens will be responsible for holding such an occasion. It would be great, so to say...Unfortunately, the Sunday came, we need to go back to home, Kaposvár. After arriving, I started to put my stuff into my suitcase, and at 4.00 p.m. I left for Pécs. Well, It was that weekend...All in all, it was also a great experience for me, like the football game with 'Nyergesvontató' team members. :-) Next weekend, it's going to be a fan tour to Slovenia, to a handball game for me, by the way!!

1st November 2007 - commemorating and wondering

The alarm clock rang, I woke up..like an average morning. But it was 1, November, 2007. Gaping, looking for a pretty, moderate, darker clothes. These were typical of me that morning. My parents did the same. They were tiffing some tea, cleaning their shoes, trying to wake up. But..it wasn't that usual day, somehow. It is an important day of course, as it is the day of dead persons in our country as well, but I/We had a bizarre feeling about it.

We had to go...cemetery, kind of tomb decorations, needles to say. We got on our car, straight to Kehidakustány, Zala county. Yes, to that place. Me and my whole family do not have any relative to commemorate to, as we are not native inhabitants of Kaposvár. My mother and her family are from Zala, my father's home county is Veszprém & Zala counties, so...that's it. Moreover, I was born in Siófok, which is said to be exists in Europe but in Somogy. (in the Siófok-livers' opinion :-P). The traffic was quite heavy, accordingly it took us almost 2 hours to get the cemetery (half-way between Zalaszentgrót and "Kehida"). We weren't so talkative during the ride, you know. Having arrived to the hill-side hallowed ground, the cold, strong wind was blowing, like in general. We sauntered up to the hill to enshrine. My mum's parents lie there in peace. Finally, we managed to light candles although it was not so easy. We were just standing there for minutes...I felt my hair blazing into my face because of the wind, but I did not mind. It helped to dry my tears. Yes, I see. Both of my grandparents were old..too old. But...each of them died in the two typical disease in Hungary. Cancer and heart attack. Furthermore, I have almost nobody left, because me and my father have no brothers and sisters, by the way.. I had no chance to meet either of my great grandparents neither one of my grandfathers. Unlike 90% of my friends and acquaintances. No comment...My mother in the age of 38 did not have any parents. She was no longer a child! (But please, please more subsidy for big families, right?? Oh come on...)

I was already driving on the way to Balatonfenyves at about 12.15 p.m (as we decided to visit our holiday house for a minute again, hoping everything was OK, fortunately it was so.). After taking about 1-2kms, my mother asked me to go through the village that time, not along the settlement. She wanted to see The House again when she was brought up. I said "certainly", of course. I knew the way to get there...I remembered and I remember at present, too. I was just changing the gears slowly, reached the village, bent toward to 14, Széchenyi Street. I saw buildings (shops, pubs) again. During 1 minute, happenings of several years came to my mind. I stopped in front of the house. I was unable to breath neither. It was so strange and beautiful at the same time. The new owner rebuilt it a bit, and it is probably a kind of summer-house for him/her now. The same huge nut tree in the backyard, nice lawn. Amazing. The last time we were there was in 2000, in the year of the funeral of my grandmother. I recognized everything..I remembered, how much hours I was playing and relaxing there. The whole settlement became better dueing to the lot of Austrian inhabitants and their money, in addition, the so called thermal bath.
After we had checked the house in Kehida, we did it in Balatonfenyves as well. Having had a big meal in a little restaurant nearby, we left for "home", Kaposvár. The first stop was Plaza of Kaposvár, the local entertainment facility center, to buy tickets to the cinema. We wished to watch the 3rd part of Jason Bourne's story, The Bourne Ultimatum. Fortunately, we were not disappointed after it. It was as great as the 1st and 2nd episode, and the older version from 1988, starring Richard Chamberlain. Some say, it is not a good movie at all. Well, they may not understand the whole story, or hate Matt Damon, or they watch this film only as an action film.
To tell the truth, we needed to do something calm, jarring to get rid of stress and sad mind. During the film, I realized that I may have some similar attributes with the main character. Sometimes, I don't know who I am neither. Really. (not when we go out at night and drink something :-) )

So, is was a heavy day for us, I was thinking a lot and I perceived that I am adult now, and appreciating my properties, remembrances, loves are really essential. And why was it so strange? ( I used this word at the beginning of this writing). Well, it was only the 2nd time, I think, when I could not stand crying, and this day was the most staggering for me this year. Maybe I've changed, become sober-minded. "...Who knows, only time..." /Enya/

Evening-glory

...yes, Balint! Our next game is on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m!'--said one of my acquaintance. Oh my god...again. I did not really liked it first..As I'm a member of a soccer team called 'Nyergesvontató FC'--funny, is't it? :)--and we play a match every week, as usual. It is that..once, a guy ,who I had known from my highschool, but only by sight, met me on the corridor in the university. It is quite interesting..I thought that this boy attends to BDF in Szombathely, which was true until September 2007, when he moved to Pécs to learn at PTE. On the other hand, I hadn't had so much talkings with this guy before. I said 'hello' when I saw him, but that's all..we hadn't got the same friends and he was in an older class, above mine. He graduated one year before me. Secondly, he claimed that he really want me to take part in his team as I had a good soccer skills. I was just staring at him and asked what he had said to me before. He repeated his sentence again.

Well, first of all, I must admit that a I do not really have good skills, I would say..general ones. I don't score own goals when I play football, however I would not deserve a goldenball-prize neither. Moreover, his team is full of older guys, mostly students who have been attending PTE for 2-3-4 years. It's true for the other teams too. Moreover, the games are held at night, around 10 and 11p.m. So, I was planning to say no, or 'are you kidding' or something like that, as it's not a game for me, you know. I'm quite thin actually, and there aren't so many first-year footballers.

But finally, I accepted the invitation. Since that time, I've been a member of Nyerges'--as we call ourselves--and after 2 games, we have one win and one draw, which is excellent, cause the field is quite strong and we had not played together before. I have already scored a goal, by the way!! Against 'Nyilttörés FC' (3-0 won). Amazing.. I wouldn't have thought it a month ago. :) I was really happy and exhausted at the same time. But I'm glad to be a part of this team, play with older boys and they trust me, as I noticed. And it's cool..you know. As I did not manage to participate in a PE lesson at school, my regular moving is done. Huuuuh..I hope we'll continue our good form.

All in all, It worthed saying 'yes' to the guy on that day on the corridor at PTE...

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