"Valuska, Pipo!" "Come in!" "Both." "That's it." "Stay here!" " Where is the..." " Here." " Oh." "Do not do it with!" " Ah, anyway.." " Can not pull it straight?" " No." "'Cause it is wider there, than here." "So you should, pull it straight..." "That's why I said that you should start it here." "But I can not start it here, because then it throws the other way." "Skinners from the village..., they can not furrow straight." " Then call a skinner from Pest!" " Damn ok." "Call somebody from Pest!" "Then it will be like that." "Is art present here, in the village Ah, no." "Why would it?" "It is not present." "I'm not present, neither." "I live here..." "I work here, here is my studio, but..." "I do not make exhibitions here." "The reason is not that I wouldn't like to, maybe I would like to, but I think that,..." "I have to be careful about the judgement of the others here." "It is better this way, if the others know me as a simple villager." " Do you like to live here" " Well..." "Certainly I like..., but I wouldn't call it affection." "I would like to." "I would like to feel myself well, but I fell into and started to see from inside, see what are the roots of the problems, what are the burdens of the people here, the contexts of these problems, because they definitely have contexts." "I usually wake up early in the morning." "Then I sit next to the computer." "Then I wake up my mothers, they sit there." "I eat breakfast." "Sometimes I collect some wood and bring in some water too, afterwards I help my ma." "I start the fire, then I watch TV." "Then I sit back to the computer a bit and after that I sleep." "And when do you usually wake up?" " Around five or six." "Why do you wake up so early?" "That time I can sit at the computer undisturbed." " So you wake up so early to have the computer for yourself, right?" " Yes." " Which games do you usually play with?" " Football games." " What do you do in this a game?" " Managing teams." " Which is your team?" " Real Madrid, Barcelona... and Manchester United." "These three." "Which is your favorite?" " Real Madrid." " Do you usually watch the matches?" " Yes." " Who is your favoruite player?" " Cristiano Ronaldo." "In my opinion the roots of problems evidently, that they took the land from the people." "It sounds ridiculously, because supposedly they gave them back during the regime change but not to them, not to the villagers." "We got some of these restitution tickets, my parents also got some." "Not because of the land, but because my father was a prisoner of war." "But there was no possibility to buy land." "Fourty something years of socialism was enough... that villagers do not respect the land, but they feel that it is a drag on them." "So they sold the restitution tickets to riggers." " Did it happen that you escaped from home?" " Yes, it did." "For example this New Years Eve, not long ago." "How did it happen?" "Actually my father did not allow me to the party, and I waited till he got asleep." "I said my mother that I can hear fireworks from outside." "My coat and bag were already outside." "I jumped over the fence and ran to the railway station." "To go to Abony by train." "These kind of things happened." " How long were you there?" " For three days." "Dad, shut up, ok?" "Thanks!" " Shut up!" " A bit of silence please." "Thanks!" "So step to the other room, that will be best." "Start." " How many people sleep in this room?" " Six." " Who sleep here?" " Mum, Dad my 3 younger brothers and me." "Can you do some special local food?" "There is only one food which is done just here in Szihalom." "It has this old name." "It's name is kompéros." "It is done just here, nowhere else." "It is something like lángos but it is made of potatoes." " Can you make it?" " No." "How is this kompéros made?" "So?" "Put salt to flour." "Puddle with grease or butter." "Smooth it to be even." "Then roll out into a pan." "We prepare the filling, the potato, mixed with sour cream until it's smooth." "Then we put it on the top." "And we fold the side of it, think and even like this." "We put it into the oven and it bakes to be tasty and crunchy." "I woke up." "I played all day." "I did not do much else." " What did you do with the computer?" " I played with Metin and I was facebooking." "Nothing else." " So, you haven't been outside today?" " Once, for wood." "To make the fire." "How can you imagine yourself here 20 years later?" "I do not usually think about it." "What fate brings." "But if you have to imagine... for example the village." "How will it look like in 20 years?" "Well I think I won't see neither the village, nor Hungary in 20 years." "I will leave as soon as possible." "After my 18th birthday I will leave." " Where do you want to go?" " As far as possible." "But if you leave, won't you miss your family?" "No." "At Christmas my friends invited me to a party, but I did not go." "I made it a rule not to drink two days before." "So I was here, at home." "My mother cooked, I ate... and played with the computer all day, as usual." "Did you get some present?" "I think this is the third Christmas, that I have not got." "I think it has some reason." "In the family i'm the so called black sheep." "So I do not usually get anything." "Everybody gets in the family except me." "Do you give any present?" "I do not get any, so I do not give." "What would you prefer to do the most?" "The most?" "I would draw, eat... sing rap, nothing else." "They advise me to live with positive attitude," "But I can not feel anything anymore." "Grosics, Puskás, Kocsis, Hidegkúti," "Czibor, Bozsik." "There is a picture about them." "It is an abandoned country." "Severe." "We can say that we are left alone." "Actually we just vegetate." "These are the last days of the Hungarian country?" "Perhaps." "The biggest problem is that, these poor people, like me," "are forced to buy everything like people in a city." "Since we have to live, like in the city." "We haven't got a garden, or it is not worth to work in the garden." "So lands are abandonned here, so people rather go to shop to" "Tesco or shops nearby and buy the vegetables there." "This is the situation." "But everything, everything..." "They spend all their money on these kind of things." "Everybody fell into this trap." "Like mobile phone... rate... or internet or the telephone rate, gas, elctricity..." "waste water, chimneysweep, communal tax, garbage price." "I skipped a lot of things, however I've already mentioned 7 things, that we have to pay." "Any these people have no money." "And you can not quit this system." "Everybody is a part of this system." "You are just a twist, you can not jump out of it." " I usually wake up 2 am." " That's not too good, you should sleep more." " Four hours sleeping is enough for me." " Really?" "Yeah it was always enough for me." "It was enough when I was young." "I go to bed at 9pm." "And I get up at 2 am, because I wake up." " How much time to do this?" " I'm doing this for 3 days." "But how long does it take to finish it?" "Sometimes, when I have to go to the church, it takes longer." "How much do they pay for you?" " Should I tell you?" " Yes, certainly." "1100HUF." " For this?" " For one?" " Yes." " Oh." " 1100." "Look, till now I got 100HUF less for this." " 1000HUF." " And now I get 100HUF more." "2 weeks work." "Congratulation." "Look, they broke the hand of my little Jesus again." " Again?" " Again." "So I won't give them anymore." "I have to make another one, since it is broken." " Probably they dropped it." " We will repare it." " A new arm?" " Fortunately it is just the arm." "I told them, 'I was the last time you got it. '" " Szihalom, or where to?" " Szemere." " It is in the Corpus Christi tent in Szemere." " Yeah." "You know we have got 4 tents..." " ..." "In the corners of the church." " I know, i know." "One of these tents was mine, but as i'm a vestryman, the church is enough for me." "What are the names of your sisters and brothers and what should we know about them?" "It will be quite tough." "So the list is quite long." "So?" "All you have to know about Imre is that, he is like his father." "He is like a vagabond." "I'm the next one." "I'm very tough, like Imre." "The next one is Betti." "She is also very tough." "But she learns a lot." "She learns much more than we do." "Then Gabi." "He will be like Imre." "He like to fight in the school and talks back to teachers." "Enikő." "She can not deny, that she is a Pásztor." "She also likes to fight." "Valika, she is tranquil." "Palkó..." "He also very bad in school." "Annabella, she has just started school, so she behaves well yet." "Izabella goes to kindergarten." "Nándor also." "Jázmin, she stays home with Grandma, and with Melissa." " So how many sister and brother do you have?" " We are 12 altogether." "What do you really wish, or what do you really miss from your life?" " Or it should have happened in other way?" " My Mum and Dad should not have left." "But they've left and we've just remained here with Grandma." " When did they leave?" " 2003." " And they left you here?" " Four of us." "No, six of us." "How did it happen?" "Do you remember for this?" "Just for a few things..." " Do you tell the story of it?" " So, we were at home," "Mum was pregnant and the ambulance came to us." "And Valika was born." "And then she came home, and left Valika there, and went away." " Do you remember exactly when she left?" " It did not really bother me." "I had the computer." "I do not really miss her now." "But when she left you... do you remember for the last evening, when she left?" " What did she tell you?" " Nothing." "She said that she would leave." "That's all." " Didn't you ask her where?" " No." "She just left." "It did not bother us so much." "Do you think that it is important that, parents would stay with their children?" "Definitely." " Do you want children?" " Probably, later." "But not now." "Do you think that it would be important to stay with them?" "Yes." "So they will be my children." "Have you ever asked your mother, why did she leave you?" " Have you ever?" " No." "Why should I?" "She left us that's all." "We are not interested in that anymore." " Aren't you angry about this?" " No." "We have got Grandma." "She showed us everything." "So we did not really miss Mum." " What did you get for Christmas from your Mum?" " Nothing." " Did you get any present?" " Grandma refilled my mobile phone." "with 4000HUF." "Do you still have anything from this 4000HUF?" "No." "I used it to facebook." " Zsófi, what is your favoruite meal?" " Pizza." "Pizza with bacon." " What will happen here?" " I do not know what will happen." "We can not wait for a miracle." "I do not wait for a miracle." "You can not say what will be in 20 years." "Certainly, everbody will leave." "Some village will be more viable." "Where peolpe can find work." "But where they can not find... that village settle itself." "These are my thoughts." "In the name of Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen." "Sweet Jesus Be our guest!" "Bless you gave us!" "Amen." "In the name of Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen." "What is art in your opinion?" "I do not know this, I'm not familiar with this kind of things." "So I'm not really interested in art, so I do not know." "I do not know." "But my teacher also asked this a while ago." "But I could not answer." " Do you know Imre Bukta?" " Who?" " Imre Bukta?" " No." " Have you heard about him?" " No." "So now I do not really know who he is." "My neighbour." " Who do you think he is?" " Who knows?" " What is his profession?" " Do not know." "They say he is an artist." "I have never seen any of his work." "I do not know why they call him artist," "I have never seen any of his work." "Do you know any famous artist?" "Picasso." "Majka, LL Junior." "I will tell the name of some artists." "Bartók Béla, Kodály Zoltán, Mozart." "These." "I think mainly tragic things happen here." "What is your affection to this tragic place?" "Why do not you go to a place where your dreams come true?" "Well, yeah." "The problem with this question, is just, that I love the place" "you are asking about." "I love the village,." "where I live." "I do not know why would it be tragic to live here, where I was born." "It is not a tragedy for me." "I have never thought about it as a tragedy or a problem." "or any negative thing." "I know this land, the smells, the places, the spirit." "If not much remained." "So it's not a kind of continuous remembrance for past." "or thinking on the past, but it's ok for me." "As I said" "My Aunt Franci is here, I'm here." "I'm not thinking on leaving anymore." "Why should?" "This is my home." "Where should I go?" "I do not understand." "I could go to a lot of place." "To Berlin..." "I could try it." "Why would be it better?" "What would I discover?" "Probably interesting." "I've been in Berlin as a tourist." "I've made an exhibition there." "But I can live inly here." "Magyar felirat: mitbrille, Angol fordítás: rasp1331 karagarga @ 2013"