Messzelátó Egyesület

Dear Teachers and Enviromental Educators,

Here you can download a lessonplan in ENGLISH, ROMANIAN, SLOVAKIAN how to realize a Land Art lesson. It could fit in several places in the curriculum in the school year.

We used this to the International Land Art Contest in this year in the region of Central-Eastern Europe with collaboration with www.350.org.

Dear Teachers and Environmental Educators,

350.org International Climate Civic Movement and Messzelato Association announce a land art and climate protection contest for children between the age of 11-18 within non-formal youth groups or school classes in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Gesine's blog: The Breakfast is everyday between 8 and 9 o'clock. We get there just before 9, everybody still feeling the Welcome-Party in their heads. Of course, by this time, the precious apples and oranges are gone – what is left for the hungry stomach?

Are you concerned about your health? Are you not over 18 years old and you'd like to do something against smoking and other drug addictions in a creative way? The KIA carsaloon and the Batthyány Ilona Primary School organise an international drawing competition for kids in honour of the antismoking day and the struggle against drug consumption with the title „Clean Air for our Lives and for a Better Future”.

Bumping up the dirt track to Kathleen and Erik’s house in Püspökszentlászló in the pitch black, we might not have been able to see anything of the Mecsek hills, but we could feel them towering above us in the dark. The morning revealed just how beautiful the area was. Nestled at the foot of the highest Zengő peak, the house is surrounded by the same forest that covers the nearby hill slopes, which at the time of our visit was all the more stunning for the mid-November autumn colour.

After a 3 hour journey from Budapest, our first priority on arriving in Sopron was finding the hotel to shed the rucksacks that seemed to have become twice as heavy since the outset. Possibly due the sudden heat that hit us on exiting the train, something that we had been spared in the moving train with its windows (and sometimes doors) wide open.

On the 19th August a small group of us set off for the Mecsek hills to wage war on some unruly rose trees and blackberry bushes. Chase, Roan, Bob and myself set of bright and early from Budapest, and a few hours later were rewarded by an invigorating swim in Lake Balaton when we stopped at Siofok. After another small stop for food we eventually arrived at the house of Erik and Kathleen, in the tiny village of Puspokszentlaszlo, nestled under the highest point of the Mecsek hills.

Hi! We are back from our small tour in northeastern Hungary to visit the small trains. You can find small pictures and comments on our small Blog here: http://hungariantrailway.wordpress.com

Friday 18th of April, Christina and I (Benjamin) are going to start a journey in the North eastern quarter of Hungary if there is no strike. We are going to visit the kisvasutak (small railways) and take pictures of the nature from the small trains. The issue is an exhibition, we hope in Szimpla kert, when we will be back, around the 1st of May. This 10 days trip is going to lead us to Debrecen, Nyíregyháza, Dombrád, Balsa, Miskolc, Eger, Gyöngyös, and Nagybörzsöny.

A group of international activists set off from Budapest and the surrounding area to celebrate International Water Day in Vác, a pretty market town 30 minutes away.

The plan was to help Danube protecting NGO, Göncöl Szövetség, in making a channel from the Danube to a near-by lake to improve water quality and create spawning ground for fish. We also needed to move fallen trees which caused problems when the area flooded. Everyone worked hard all day, only stopping for a ‘bring and share picnic.’