Carneval in Hungary

Carneval of February – „Farsang”

The winter-chaser carneval period is about 15-20 days; between 1st and 20th of February.
This period is from Twelfth Night to Ash Wednesday in the Christian churches. People get dressed into costume-dress or they take up a mask or a make-up. Nowadays children take a costume-dress ball by the organization of the teachers in the schools. After this the children have a party.

In our school there were also parties by the reason of Farsang. The first thing what the children could do in the party was seeing a Vienna Waltz dance. These children were preparing for this dance from last October. The children who go to the 8 classes (14-15 years old children), they were dancing Vienna Waltz. The parties were on 5th and 6th February in our school. After this we could saw the costume-dress carneval. There were apart celebrations for the little and the bigger children. About in the middle of the parties there were tombolas. There were a lot of prizes what we could win - if we were lucky – for example cakes, toys and articles for use. When the tombola was over, we could continue the disco.

by Dominik Istrate