{"id":34723,"date":"2022-10-21T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=34723"},"modified":"2022-10-24T09:48:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:48:55","slug":"this-is-how-we-danced-freshers-ball-at-semmelweis-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2022\/10\/this-is-how-we-danced-freshers-ball-at-semmelweis-university\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how we danced \u2013 Freshers\u2019 Ball at Semmelweis University"},"content":{"rendered":"
On October 14, the Students\u2019 Union (H\u00d6K) and the Instructor Volunteer Group (I\u00d6CS) dressed up the Theoretical Block in Nagyv\u00e1rad Square for the most awaited university event of the newly admitted students: the Semmelweis Freshers\u2019 Ball. The event was part of a series of International 40 programs celebrating the anniversary of the launch of international education at the university.<\/div>\n
The opening ceremony was attended by nearly 50 international students and the informal part of the event by nearly 200, which is particularly gratifying as the H\u00d6K and the I\u00d6CS continue to open up to foreign students year after year, thus helping them to integrate.<\/div>\n
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In his opening speech, Rector Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely emphasized that this year for the first time Semmelweis University was ranked among the 250 best universities in the world by Times Higher Education, making it the best university in Central and Eastern Europe. He added that the enthusiasm and dedication of the students, whom he is counting on in the future, were essential for this.<\/p>\n

B\u00e1lint Tripolszky, President of the H\u00d6K stressed it was symbolic that university leaders, lecturers, researchers and students attended the ball together, as community is not only about successfully overcoming difficulties, but also about sharing the joy and celebrating together. \u201cThe crowd may be broken up, but the individuals who hold it together, the souls who have found community, can never be separated. This is who we are, and this is what Semmelweis University means to me,” he said.<\/p>\n

As tradition has it, the Pro Juventute Universitatis awards were presented at the Freshers’ Ball, following a decision of the Students\u2019 Union’s board. Dr. Bendeg\u00faz B\u00f3dis, Dr. B\u00e1lint Borsik, Dr. Anna Kir\u00e1ly, Dr. G\u00e9za Adri\u00e1n Veress and Prof. P\u00e9ter Torzsa received the awards from Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely and B\u00e1lint Tripolszky in recognition of their work for the students of the University.<\/p>\n\r\n [slb_exclude]\r\n

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For the first time this year, international students opened the show with their waltz. The opening waltz was followed by a dance of the instructors. The performers took the audience back to the past, to Greece, or evoked Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n

In the rest of the program, participants could listen to a singing performance by Janka Czirj\u00e1k and Bogl\u00e1rka G\u00e1l and watch a belly dance performance by Regina Polenyik. Finally, the Hungarian students danced a waltz to the music of the film “Howl\u2019s Moving Castle”, accompanied by live music, and the musical program ended with the traditional teacher-student dance. Thanks to the Moving Image Creative Instructors (MAKI), the Freshers film was shown, which filled all first-year students and instructors alike with nostalgia.<\/p>\n

This article was written in the framework of our Through the Students’ Eye column.<\/em><\/p>\n

Masri Jaffar, Petra Csan\u00e1di, Alexandra Pop<\/p>\n

Translation: G\u00e1bor Kiss<\/p>\n

Photo: B\u00e1lint Barta – Semmelweis University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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