Personal characteristics

 1. Tétel - Personal characteristics - Az egyén

• describing appearance

• describing character and personality

• the ideal man and woman

• fashion, trends

• beauty care, cosmetics

“Handsome is as handsome does” – I think it’s true but not completely. Mainly in business life clothes bespeak quite a lot. Your appearance have to be natural but pretty. Your clothes and make-up show your character and your personality. After that your speech tells your intelligence. If you’re shy and you haven’t self-confidence your clothes will be low-key and not colourful. But if you’re cool and you’re full of confidence your clothes will be colourful and trendy.

How a person dresses depends on the occasion, her/his personality, build and the mood of her/him. Some people obviously think that following the latest trend is the only possible way to decide what to wear, but I prefer choosing clothes that suit my personality and build. It might be more important for people who often appear in public, like actresses and TV stars.

I like comfortable clothes. That’s why I wear jeans with a T-shirt or a pullover most of the time when I’m at home with my daughter. Of course on my workplace I wear costume or trousers or skirts with blouse. I like natural materials, like cotton, linen and wool. I don’t like synthetic materials at all because I sweat in them.

I usually buy my clothes in boutiques or in hypermarkets because there is a wide choice and the prices are reasonable. I buy my shoes in specialized shops because the quality of shoes are very important.

I think it’s easier for women to follow the latest fashion because designers deal mostly with women’s clothes. When you enter a store, the department for women’s wear is usually bigger than the department for men’s wear. Besides this, women can choose from a wider range of different types of clothes; that is, they can wear trousers, suits, skirts, shorts and dresses, while men are restricted to wearing jeans, trousers or shorts. There are also more accessories for women than for men. 

Women can put ribbons, headbands, clips, flowers, grips and hair-slides into their hair. Both women and men wear belts, wristwatches, rings and sometimes necklaces and studs, but only women wear clips, pearl necklaces, chokers, brooches and lockets. On the other hand, only men wear braces, tie-pins, cuff-links and pocket watches.

Women make up themselves usually at weekdays when they work or at the weekends when they have date. I think the natural and low-key make-up is more and nicer than so much and sporty make-up.

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2. Tétel - Friends and relationships - Emberi kapcsolatok

• friendship

• fellow students and colleagues

• partners

Friendship is very important in my life because my friends are my second family. 

I have lots of friends: one of them was my classmate at primary school, some of them were my classmates at secondary school, one of them was my colleague at my first workplace and the majority is known by my husband for 6 years. I think these friendships are the strongest because adults take their friends more seriously especially they have children. We meet at weekends to play the children together and sometimes – especially on birthdays and namedays - we go to pubs to talk each other and to celebrate.

Partner relationships are important too. I keep in touch with my ex-lovers nowadays we’re friends. We meet rarely but we often call each other and we talk about our present-days. Although we couldn’t agree together, nowadays we can talk about everything. It’s very interesting!

3. Tétel - Family - Család

• family models (only child, large family, single-parent families)

• division of tasks within the family

• generations living together

In most families there are two children, a mother and a father. Of course, it’s difficult to tell because there are families with more than two children and many couples get divorced and the children usually stay with the mother. In some families there are three generations living together. This means that one or both the grandparents live with the family too, and they help with the housework and they also look after the children while the parents are at work.

That’s the way it goes at my father-in-law. He and my mother-in-law live together with my father-in-law’s mother, my husband’s grandmother. She’s pensioner so she cooks every day, and the others tidy up at the weekends.

My family isn’t so large: my mother, my sister and my own family: my daughter and my husband. My daughter – Eliza – is 20 month-old, she’s a tall child with curly brown hair and big blue eyes. She is very lively and slippy. She likes singing, dancing and drawing.

My husband is 30 years old, he’s a sales and marketing manager at his father’s family business. Our daughter takes after his father, so Béla has curly brown hair and blue eyes too.

I’m 27 years old and I worked as an office coordinator for a dutch multinational company. Nowadays I’m at home with Liza until he’s going to nursery school at September. I took a degree last year so I’d like to work as a HR manager. 

We live with my mother and my sister because we’re constructing in Inárcs and we’ll move there not later than June.

We share all the housework with my mother, generally she cooks, I tidy and clean and my daughter makes the mess.

Our relatives live in Miskolc and my grandmother lives in Nagyrozvágy, so we meet rarely unfortunately.

4. Tétel - Man and society - Ember és társadalom

• social benefits (pension, health insurance, unemployment benefit)

• social movements (NGOs, trade unions, clubs, associations)

• public safety, crime and criminal investigation

• unemployment

The state and the government assure social supplies to the indigents. For example, pensioners get pension, parents get family allowance, everybody get medical assurance and unemployed people get dole. Of course, therefore people have to pay several taxes when they work.

Social movements are non-governmental organizations, foundations, trade unions, clubs, associations, etc. These organizations protect their members and they fight their true together.

(I disapprove of people who demonstrate on our national holidays nowadays.)

Public safety means the security of the public namely citizens. The police’s job is the support of the public safety. Public security includes especially murder, burglary, car upsurge and stealing and actions versus property. I think the public safety not so high in Hungary especially in the capital.

I think the preventing of offense is more important and effective than criminal investigation. Everything that do harm to somebody and there is in the criminal code is offense. Criminal code describes all offenses and their sanctions.

Unemployment is a serious social problem all over the world. Unemployed means that somebody hasn’t worked for a month, and he or she’s looking for a job. I think most of them are middle-aged and elder. Of course there are entrant unemployed too, because lots of employee want a young, well-educated but well-practised employers. 

In my opinion the state has to solve the problem, for example, with free re-trainings and odd job or jobs of public utility. Of course, people have to change their habits. Change of residence and workplace or profession may be often a good resolution.