We won a prize!

We won a prize at the the intensive language course farewell dinner last Friday! Here's the story. Our teacher Tünde heard that there was going to be a folk song singing contest and talked our class into entering as a group. We chose a song on Friday, practiced together for a few minutes on Monday and Tuesday and Tuesday evening competed. It was too short notice to learn the song well, so we decided just to sing one verse with the men stomping their feet at the appropriate place.
On Tuesday evening, we learned that there were seven solo competitors and two other groups. We were the first group to sing. We were nervous, but we wanted to make Tünde proud of us, so we did our short little song the best we could. Each of the other two groups did four songs apiece and added harmony and a round. We were glad when the contest was over that Tünde was indeed proud of us.
On Friday evening, the winners of the contest were announced. Each first-place solo contestants sang one of their songs for the audience. They then announced that in the group category, there were two groups that were so good that they tied for first place! Wow! After those two groups sang, our group was called up and awarded third prize! Tünde was again proud of us--and we won a book, a certificate and chocolate bars!

Our brave singing class: (l-r) Keisuke Kawamura, Tünde Nagy (our teacher), Andrea Ancarney Carteny, Nancy Juntunen, Mike Juntunen, Ania Ciesok, Beata Drzazga, Sylwia Jedlak