OUR FIRST FAIRY TALE BOOK

created for the project
MY COUNTRY YOUR COUNTRY
by the schools from Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey

HUNGARY

AN ADVENTUROUS TRIP

At the end of the school year, the Erasmus Plus group went on a trip to Buda Castle.
Three friends, Kyra, Petra and Johanna, did not notice that they had lagged behind the group and had wandered into one of the abandoned rooms of the castle. There they found a big something covered with a sheet. They pulled down the sheet, got in. They didn’t notice that they had pressed a button accidentally. They didn't realise that it was a time machine.

When they got out of the machine, they saw two people sitting in front of a cave. They were dirty, barely wearing clothes and eating raw meat. Johanna walked up to them and asked them where they were. The two men began to explain in incomprehensible language and the girls didn’t understand anything. Anyway, Kyra noticed that the men were cold. She told the girls to collect branches and asked Johanna for the match she always carried with her. They managed to set a small fire, but the two men were very scared and ran into the cave. In the end the girls showed them that they could warm up by the fire and grill the meat. Out of gratitude the cavemen gave the girls berries in a small basket woven from leaves. Johanna, Kyra and Petra went back to the machine and randomly pressed a button on it.

When they got out of the time machine again, they knew right away where they were: in the middle of a desert. A beautiful pyramid was just being built in the distance. A man suddenly shouted at them pointing at some big stones. Johanna, who was the bravest and most combative of them, exclaimed, “Do you want us to carry the stones? No way!" The girls ran to a nearby city where they reached a market. They snatched some clothes from one of the market stalls because they stood out in their jeans from the crowd and Kyra was even wearing her black baseball cap. She never took a step without it. In their disguises they fled back to the machine and hoped to return to their own time.

The next time they got out of the appliance, they entered a dirty street which was very smelly. They were surrounded by tall wooden houses. They were confronted by two men wearing very strange, bird like masks. Johanna thought it was carnival season there, but Petra had a different idea, “Stop! We are in the Middle Ages! The plague has broken out! These are plague doctors!” The girls ran back to the time machine as fast as lightning. Hoping to finally get home, they pressed a button.

When they got out of the structure, they saw an enormous, beautiful church. There were lots of people gathering in the church square. In the middle there was a wooden platform with a bonfire on it. The crowd began to shout louder and louder chanting the same name over and over again. A man standing close to the girls turned around and looked at them. More and more people did the same and started pointing fingers at them. Petra almost fainted in fright, but Johanna and Kyra grabbed her and ran back to the time machine with her. They had the feeling that people considered them witches as they were still in the Middle Ages. They got back in the machine and hoped to press the right button this time.
Finally the girls succeeded - they were in the small room of the castle again. The group was just about to leave the room. No one noticed they were gone. What seemed like hours to them was just a few moments. Only aunt Eszti asked them why they were so dirty…