It's time to start: the first week

Welcome to Pécs!
Last sunday I arrived in Pécs and since then a lot of things happened. But lets start from the beginning.
After a trip of 14 hours to Budapest and 3 hours to Pécs by train I was picked up with other volunteers and we were brought to our flats. I am living together with three other lovely girls. While I am in one room with Kathi, Freya and Ines are sharing the other one. Our kitchen was just renovated and we have a balcony which is connected to my room. We are quite happy here in our "Toasty flat".(The name was given by the previous volunteers).
On sunday we just unpacked our stuff and went to Lidl which is located just 200m away to buy some food for the evening.
On monday we had a first meeting with all the other volunteers and our mentors from the project. All in all we are 17 volunteers: 11 from Germany, 2 from Austria, 2 from Italy and 2 from Spain. We are separated in two kindergartens from which one is a german-hungarian where I am working and the other is a hungarian one. Both of them are also separated in two locations.
After the meeting we went to the city center to buy a sim card and a bus ticket.
In the evening the german volunteers met Ildi, the german Mentor, in a nice bar/café. We talked about a lot of stuff and agreed to meet on a weekly basis.
On tuesday my work in the kindergarten started. The kids are so sweet and the teachers are also very nice and open minded. I am in the "Butterfly group" with 24 children. This week I worked from 8 o'clock until 13 o'clock and next week from 10.30 until 15.30. (The shifts are changing every week.) Basically my main task is to speak german to the kids, but of course I am helping with the meals and in the bathroom. Except one girl everybody is speaking hungarian. Therefore the kids are talking hungarian to me all the time while I am speaking german :)
When I arrive we are just playing games, drawing, playing with cars.. After the breakfast we are singing some german songs, playing german games like "Mein rechter, rechter Platz ist frei" and we are counting in german. Afterwards we are going out to the playing ground. Around 12 o'clock the lunch is served and then the kids are going to sleep. I am reading a german fairy tale and then my kindergarten day is over. I really love the job and I am happy to be in this wonderful project!
In the evening we all went to the "Cooltour Café". It is a lovely place which has its one very big terrace where are different kind of lights which makes a cozy atmosphere.
On wednesday we got a first sightseeing from Vicky who is one of our Mentors. We visited the "Zsolnay culture quarter" which was somehow renovated a few years ago when Pécs was the European Capital of Culture. The Zsolnay family was very famous for its ceramic.                             (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsolnay_Porzellanmanufaktur) The quarter consist of a museum, a planetarium, a gallery, different shops, exhibitions, restaurants, theatre halls... I will definitely go there with everybody who is going to visit me :)

 As well we visited the new concert hall of Pécs where we got a short introduction by the director of the programs. (http://www.kodalykozpont.hu/index.php?a=hangversenyterem&nyelv=deutsch) We already said that we have to go there for a concert because the stage is huge, the atmosphere is great and the stage is even variable.
On thursday we had a rest day after the kindergarten. The four of us in my flat watched "Friends" and we walked up the hill in front of our flat from where we had a nice view all over Pécs.

the view over Pécs

On friday we met all together in the city center. There was a wine fest and people all over the place. Unfortunately we have been there a bit late, but we heard at least the last songs of a band from Pécs which was giving a concert.

the concert

people all over the place :)

The weekend we spent in Orfü. It is a little 900-people-village half an hour away which is located next to a lake. In two groups we made a rally to get to know the place around us. In the evening we cooked a typical hungarian meal over an open fire. We had a great time all together.
Today on sunday we discovered "Tesco". But since the supermarket is so huge we agreed to walk there another time again to orient ourselves in there :)
The weather is very sunny besides one evening when it was raining and we have over 22 degrees the whole day I would say.
Pécs is very beautiful and we get to the city center in just 10 minutes by bus. Yet we haven't discovered everything of course but the time will come..

the main venue

little lake next to "Pepita", a youth centre where we will have our meetings

The Faculty of Medicine is located next to our street so we thought to visit some of the lectures since all the germans are studying there. As well we will try to get in some sport course. Lets see if they are full or not.
That were my first days. I feel great and I am excited about the next week.
Many greetings from Hungary, Pécs.