At camp again

After our swim we had a Polish dance ensemble come to the camp.  They did some folk dancing and were wonderful.  It was interesting to see the outfits and the dance styles as they compared to Hungarian Folk Dance.

After the performance we drove a short distance to a manor house.  It was a couple towns over, but as a result of the roads and our bus, it took us a while to get where we were going :)  On the way, we stopped at an old parish church that was from the 18th century.  It was a beautiful church that would draw people from all over the countryside one per month (or every so often, I don’t remember). 

We continued to the manor house, which was originally inhabited by the nobility of the area.  Their family owned a bunch of land in the township, but then the land became “state farms.”  It was an interesting evening.  When we returned to camp, there was a performance of sorts put on by the Polish students and staff.  They were making skits of Polish legends and such.  The kids did a lot of the script writing themselves and created their costumes on their own as well.  I think the most interesting part for me was the fire that they lit.  Evidently fire is very important in this country, and they elected two students to be the “guards” of the fire.  As long as the fire was still going, there was going to be success for whatever meeting was going on.