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29 March 2024 (friday)


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Regarding to our 20th birthday – interview with Zsuzsanna Tündik

We did an interview with one of our Association’s important member, who could show her knowledge in several roles. In the interview with Zsuzsanna Tündik we can know her past in the Association with 20 questions. In the future, we will do interview with several KÖZ-Pont people, read them as well.

1. When did you joined to the Association and what was your first experience?
I have joined to the Association in 2004 at the beginning of the summer and I participated as a volunteer for the first time in the Disabled Youth International Athletics Game. We were haunted the arrived sports people, and helped them during the competitions.

2. How did you get in touch with the Association?
I have studied in the Mihály Fazekas Secondary School of Debrecen and one of my classmates recommended to try out the volunteering in the Association, I went to a program, and it turned out, it is like an avalanche, because of somebody gets in here once and they’re like this thing, it wants more and more experiences. That’s how I stuck here for a little more than a decade.

3. What was your biggest professional challenge during your work at the Association?
I have led the Association for two years as the president, what was a very hard period. The organization has gone through a lot of changes, which in many cases took place independently of me. These situations’ handling has been a challenge not just humanly but also professionally, perhaps these years at the Association were the hardest period for me.

4. Which program you liked the most and why?
It’s very hard to answer this question, because in retrospective a lot of programs are dear to my heart. For me the Diáktavasz’s (Student Spring) programs are the most memorable from the past for me. Unforgettable when as a secondary school student before a Sport day nearly at midnight at someone – to do not wake up the parents – currently we did the mixtures of the teams or before the Főtéri Diákfesztivál we built a tent, we may have sold a ticket to the Student Ball and gathered the participants so fast, because we wanted a super dressing party so much!

5. What was your favourite role/job which you were during your work?
I think I liked being the most the president of the városi DÖK at the Association, because these were the years, when I could try out myself and I got a lot of support, help from older and more experienced “adult helpers” and perhaps in this time period I had the occasion to learn the most and get experiences.

6. What or who had the biggest impact on you during your work? Why?
I think, on me the biggest impact had the Association’s first big triumvirates, so Mariann Borsos, Ancsa Reindl and János Bálega. I have learnt the most from them, and they were those people, who I could count with in every situation. And I’m especially happy about that, I could work with János in the Association for long years, in addition to the friendly relationship, we still turn to each other on professional issues.

7. Which music would you compare to the spent years at the Association?
Perhaps the Queen: Don’t stop me now song is which is comes firstly to my mind.

8. What is the first word what is comes to your mind about the Centre Association? Why?
“Fair chick” – I think, those youngsters are joins to the Association firstly, who are looking for their place, those who are stand out a bit and who are special, but they are very valuable and wonderful people. During the years I have met a lot of youngsters like, who found it difficult to fit within an institution – because of several reasons – but in the Association there were space and opportunity, to discuss, solve, figure out the things, if some situations seemed hopeless. And for this always needed to be open, be mischief, be creative, cooperation and be a little cunning.

9. What is that programs/event or moment you are the proudest of?
I’m the proudest of the program in Debrecen which was a part of the Summer Youth Festival, the Street of The Youth’s further thought version, which is built by the ideas of that time’s city student government team and it’s implemented with the fantasy name of Street of Youth and Rock-tó Festival. I think the program was a super initiative, which is addressed a lot of people and I think we implemented very cool ideas during that. Not mentioned those experiences, which involved my work and implementation. This program was a real challenge, because there were a year like we had to implement it with other county places at the same time. I don’t mention the rainy years, I think everybody had quite vivid imagination, if I say it in one sentence the really expensive sound system and the summer rains.

10. What is that thing you have learned at the Association and you can use that in other places of the life?
It is hard to choose one thing… I think which thing is the most valuable for me, what I have learnt at the Association is the point of view. That is the cooperation, the pursuit of a solution and the willingness of the change. I experience in several parts of my life, unfortunately, unreasonably few people are able to do this, which for example at work can drive to conflicts and several difficulties.

11. What motivated you in your work?
I think mostly the successes motivated me: I saw that what I do is works and good. It was that simple, but I think this operates with everybody, If you feel you are on the good way, then you just easily move on.

12. If you could do back something from your Association years, what it would be?
Nothing. Thinking back there are a lot of things, which I would not do with my head today, but I think that back there was a reason then and that I decided in that way and without mistakes I certainly wouldn’t have gotten to where I am today. If we mistake, that is never irreparable, and if we can learn by these and these situations, then its worth, any difficult situation.

13. You were at a lot of places during your volunteer years, but which was the most exciting activity for you?
The DIA days were the most exciting for me which is organized by the Demokratikus Ifjúságért Alapítvány, because at there we could meet, get acquainted and change experiences with other volunteers who came from all over the country. Naturally we always came back home with thousands of new ideas after programs like this!

14. What kind of superpower would be useful for you to make the life easier at the Association?
It is clear that is the mindreading! I think it isn’t surprising to anyone and I put it in addition, mostly in János’s head! Jokes aside, at the time with an 16-18 years old it could be good If I see the things with more complexity, but later this superpower arrived too. But I am immeasurably grateful for that those “great olds” have never seen in me an unexperienced girl, but they helped me in that to become a “mind reader” during the years.

15. You have participated in a lot of Association dances, there were when you have danced, but there was a time when you taught
some, but which Association dance was your favourite?
Can’t I choose all of them? It is hard because of that reason, because I loved all of them for other things. However, if I have to choose one it would be the Grease because this dance has a true “past” in the life of the Association. It would be funny to remake this with the old team maybe the dance gathers those together again, who we haven’t met one thousand years ago!

16. You were at the name change in Hajdúszoboszló in 2009, do you remember how the Köz-Pont name came?
The honest answer is no… I recall that, we thought a lot, discussed about that, we argued and the naming went in the way like in the tale with the Powerpuff Girls: a little this, a little that and bang the Köz-Pont was born!

17. If you have to recommend the Association to somebody, what would you say?
Huh, this is a tricky question, because in the past as a city dök president a lot of people heard from me endless speeches about, why would it be written to everybody in practice to a prescribe! Probably today I won’t campaigning that hard, but I believe in that in unbroken way, the volunteering, the civil action opens window to the world. We can experience things like that, get know what we couldn’t anywhere else. It is a huge gift, the youth can develop themselves here, they don’t have to fear about if they make mistakes, because there are people who helps to repair the things, if those slip aside. Of course, for this, it is essential that such dedicated and responsible staff, adult helpers work in the bond of the Association as when even I was a volunteer.

18. How do you think today’s youth could be motivated to join such a community?
Based on my opinion the today’s youth aren’t different than the “yesterday’s” – I mean that they are motivational very similar, like we were. That is if a contemporary who is credible for them, recommends an opportunity – be that the volunteering, civilians’ actions etc. what seems interesting, or cool, they will try it for sure. I think the tools are different, which they are reachable, because while at us “János called me from the EIP” was the world’s coolest thing, then to them the “my friend shared it on Facebook” maybe more attractive…

19. How did you change the most compared to your pre-accession self?
Probably in a lot of things! I look back to the years of the Association, as a long process, which is still lasts, because basically I have connection with the Association, impulses still affect me in this context, what indicates changes. I think this is a thing like a deep relationship between parent and child, however much is independent and adult you are and as independently you decide, on your mother’s good advices you think about that sometimes even if you choose a different way in your actual decision. I want to say with this the Association’s perspective leaves a mark on everyone, who lets it. But if you are curious about concrete fact and I think I became braver, more open, and constructive and perhaps what is the most important in the life is I believe about myself that If I dream something I’m able to make it true!

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