After a long-long trip our car arrived at 9 in the everning in Dortmund, where we fortunatly met Klaus and went to a youth hostel.

Despite of our tiredness we wanted to see the Germany-Turkey football match, so wew had to hurry if we wanted to see it. It was so good to see, that turkish and german celebrated toghether, we celebrated too:





and drank our first german bier in Germany! We were looking forward to the upcoming days.

Nordkirchen

We followed Klaus to Nordkirchen with a few delays, but finally we arrived to the castle of Nordkirchen, to the Versailles of Westfalia. Just the first impressions were simply embrassing: as we seen from the car the baroque-style buildings whith the parks and sculptures, we were totally amazed.

We met with the bulgarians, and tryed to speak bulgarish...


In a few minutes we got the accomodations, with single-rooms in the nearby and prepared ourselves, as from 11 o'clock would be the beginning of the rehesals. Our rehersal building belonged to the baroque style monuments of the Castle, with portraits of Westfalian royals and nobles inside. Our conductor, Reinhard Fehling presented himself, we got the notes of and started to sing.

After a "lecker" lunch and the afternoon's rehersals we made a walk around the castle. It was a really great first day!











This everning at the parking place Reinhard invited us to a bottle of Bier...it was so good to feel that we could sing Beatles and international folk songs...Reinhard has also played guitar(it's remaining unforgottable : Ring of fire of Johnny Cash). That day was also the birthday of two singers. We have also "Alles gute..." gelernt. And Berit has shown her skills in playing guitar-and singing.
Nice days, we hardly feeled to have found the in the Paradise lost during Nordkirchen days. And every day was better.

Guitar day

In the afternoon we went to a little tour in the castle-park...



























We were looking forward to the night, when we could sing together.

The last long day in Norkichen

We were preparing to sing together with the germans a hungarian traditional song. It was cool.
The hungarian pronounciation of the germans was simply perfect: we couldn't belive that.
Olga had the idea to translate into german language. With common force we managed easly to translate the song, that name is "Erdő, erdő "


Olga said: noch auf english überzsetzen wir!!! Why not? Cool, we couldn't imagine such a popularity of this hungarian song! Olga, you should be a professional song-translator :)

After that we went to a guided tour around and inside the Castle.
Reinhard has translated to english, thanks to Him. We got known, that the Nordkirchen Castle once belonged to the Eszterházy's, and Miklós Eszterházy ordered to make a hospital there and a school for the Castle.

It was beutiful:

And after the beutys of the day, we prepared ourselves to the house-concert. We were singing for ourselves.
The germans opened the house-concert:


After great applauses the portughese sang a duett:


They were followed by us I think, wich after we could hear serbian melodies,

Bulgarian tunes:

...and guitar performances:




After that we went to sing near to the rehersal-room. Almost everyne played on some musical instrument

Dortmund

After having said good bye to Nordkirchen, we went to Dortmund, the city of bier and industrial researchings.

Gábor and Gergő stayed at Andreas and André's home, Enikő and I went to Udo's flat, at the uni-village.
We decided to go to Westfahlenpark.



The beutys of Westfahlenpark impressed us, expecially the abundance of rose species of Germany.
























































We went up to the 219 m. high and in 1959 built florian-tv tower, it was amazing!
We could see the Uni, Münster-land, the BVB stadion, and the rests of a coal minery.


















































Everyone was going home, because the germany football team have played the finals then. We decided to fan toghether im Sonnendeck.

















From everywhere we have heard: "alé, aléaléaléalé ...super Deutschland". But we weren't sad because the second place. It was a fantastic day.

Dortmund sightseeing

In the morning we took the H-bahn with Enikő:





Then we visited the famous monuments of Dortmund: the Alte Mark, the Reinoldi Kirche, where we would have concert:





















And then we went back with H-bahn




























to the rehersals with orchestra. It lasted 6 hours.

Zoo and concert

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."

On the sixth day God created animals.
We decided to see the Dortmund's zoo with Kathrin, Vlado and the bulgarian boys.








After have seen and the 6'th day's effect of the Creation, in the evening we had concert in Bochum.