No better place than Sziget to test the Frenchman's capacity in foreign languages. My place at the information desk of the festival was mostly for the purpose of helping these incorrigable french tourists who barge into a totally foreign culture 'come dans en un moulin' (as in a windmill), with their french language and their incapacity to adapt to difference.
I find it's a very harsh stereotype - many hungarians actually have a very tainted image of french for this very reason - as most of them gave their best effort into speaking english (with the little they knew, that's true, but still). Italians I encountered were quite the opposite, refusing even to try and communicate spanish with me (no one behind the sziget information desk speaks italian I'm sorry to say - or at least it wasn't the case last year). In any case it's quite a privileged position among festival-goers (because this is what I am, whichever door I'm going through to make it to the different concerts), and I love the contact with the lost and happy 'tourists' and festival regulars.
Last year, a french girl came up to me and said she woke up this morning under a tree, all her possessions lost (her tent, her wallet, passport, mp3s and whatevers...), but it sounded like quite a joke the way she was explaining it!
Festivals, and Sziget is quite a paradise for this matter, are quite a modern catharsis of daily problems or sorrows as well as they are an - alternative - consumer-land (alternative because it awakens our thoughts on responsibility, and every year more festivals take part in signing such petitions, Sziget being one of them), with every possible service and choice for leisure.
This year, I'll spend 2 more days - 5 in total - and it'll be a fight for energy, but such an awesome one! Check out the webpage for the program (in english):
http://www.sziget.hu/festival_english/programs
My information for future festival goers, is that if you have a weekly Sziget pass (which is a bracelet), don't panick if it's broken or if it's loosing its color, just come to the information desk and we'll direct you towards another tent where you'll be able to get new ones.
Have fun...
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