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Bea Konyves
Aug 92 min read
... When she turned 24
There’s this song that I really really like. It talks about this Debbie whose dreams went out the door… when she turned 24. What happened...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 24, 20232 min read
The cake my grandma used to make
Trigger Warning! Grief. I thought I wasn't going to have an article to write this Christmas. It was expected to be about boxes and...
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Bea Konyves
Nov 25, 20233 min read
An emotional reset in ' The Midnight Library'. A book and life review.
Books have a way of finding you at the right time. It feels like the Universe just knows… October and November have been physically,...
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Bea Konyves
Nov 7, 20239 min read
The importance of offline interactions for trust and relationship-building in youth work
I wrote this essay as a formative assignment in the first year of my part-time MA Applied Anthropology & Community & Youth Work. The...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 26, 20232 min read
Three amazing days of running around
Arts in the Streets has been three amazing days of running around. It’s never easy to organise events. One evening is okay. One day is...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 19, 20232 min read
DEIS - 13 and 2 years
DEIS has been around for 13 years. DEIS UK has been around for 2 years. Young people love our projects. Organisations, funders, and...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 9, 20232 min read
What's my age again? #23
I have no idea how old I was when I first heard blink-182 - What’s My Age Again. What I do remember, is that 23 felt aeons into the...
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Bea Konyves
Jul 10, 20233 min read
Poetry with a twist! - 'Mythologies' by Petra Palkovacsova
I have a strange relationship with poetry. I don’t usually go out of my way to find poetry, but it has a way of reaching me - on the...
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Bea Konyves
May 13, 20234 min read
Plovdiv 2023 - A reminder about life long learning
This experience was about novelty. Novelty, which is not easy to find after seven years of projects, learning, and development, but it’s...
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Bea Konyves
Jan 29, 20239 min read
Observing Youth (My first Anthropology essay)
One note before the text This is my first Anthropology essay. It was a formative assessment so I didn’t get a mark on it, I just got...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 31, 20223 min read
New year, same me
Writing my daily short Muddy Shoes posts, I’ve been reflecting on everything that happened this year as it happened. As much as I enjoy...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 18, 20222 min read
Green Goblin is on the rampage!
This story was written on the 17th of December at artFix after a really fun eco-art workshop hosted by Nan and Van. I was never a crafty...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 15, 20224 min read
One week of Youth Work
If I ever forget why I love youth work as much as I do, please, someone, remind me of this week. Send me this article, send me my Muddy...
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Bea Konyves
Oct 10, 20221 min read
#HelloYellow
*Today I wear yellow to show young people how they feel matters.* It is Mental Health Awareness Day (10th of October) and @youngmindsuk...
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Bea Konyves
Oct 2, 20221 min read
Ophanim by Ana Barton (review)
Unfortunately, this article is currently available in Romanian only. Sorry!
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Bea Konyves
Aug 26, 20224 min read
Music in the Streets - An Adventure Series with a Happy Ending
There’s always SOMETHING with this project. It’s always an adventure, but only behind the scenes. Come the day of the event, everything...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 19, 20221 min read
12 Years of DEIS!
Today DEIS celebrates its 12-year anniversary, and I celebrate 6 years since I joined DEIS. Basically, I've been here for half the life...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 9, 20223 min read
Thoughts on growing up @ 22
Growing up is a trap, a lie, a hoax. It’s one of those capitalist pieces of #### where they tell you that growing up is cool and awesome,...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 5, 20221 min read
Her Dark Wings - 5 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎 out of 5.
I absolutely loved this book!!! So much, in fact, that I asked @jeanine.celine to take a super bookstagram-ish picture of it. Her Dark...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 4, 20221 min read
Why should(n’t) everyone work
This is a test. I want to see what the link looks like. It's for my novel. I could delete this after I see what the link looks like, but...
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Bea Konyves
Jul 15, 20221 min read
Table for Two
This story is not currently available in English on the blog, but you can find it in the Greenwich Anthology 2022!
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Bea Konyves
Jul 15, 20221 min read
Truth or Dare
This story is not currently available in English on the blog, but you can find it in the Greenwich Anthology 2022!
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Bea Konyves
Jul 4, 20222 min read
It's been three years, for 🦊 sake!
It’s been three years since I made my very first post on this blog, in a hammock, outside the Baia Mare Youth Centre. Three years! Can...
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Bea Konyves
Jun 24, 20222 min read
* Youth Worker ⚡️ taking a break to leave the Writer ✍️ read a little text she wrote *
* Youth Worker taking a break to leave the Writer read a little text she wrote, Baia Mare Youth Centre, Write It Out!, 2022 * This is...
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Bea Konyves
Jun 19, 20223 min read
Write It Out! & a very happy Youth Worker
I started writing this article when I was at the youth centre, in That Moment. The Moment when, after the workshop, everything’s back in...
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Bea Konyves
Jun 6, 20225 min read
A popular/unpopular opinion on Sally Rooney
I’m not sure if what I’m going to say here will fall under the popular or unpopular opinions on Sally Rooney. If you read the London...
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Bea Konyves
Mar 8, 20223 min read
A Selfie of the Artist as a Young Woman
I wasn’t necessarily planning to write something today. People of all ages and genders are dying on other parts of this planet, even mere...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 31, 20213 min read
Let's hope it's a good one...
A very Merry Christmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear The original Celine Dion version, the John Lennon...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 24, 20214 min read
What Christmas is...
Christmas has always been a big deal for me, but I have a confession to make - I didn’t feel the Christmas Spirit too much in the last...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 9, 20211 min read
CoNLucraTin - The FIRST National Youth Work Convention in Romania
Sorry, this article is currently unavailable in English.
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Bea Konyves
Dec 1, 20211 min read
S.O.S. Romanian Literature
Unfortunately, this article is not currently available in English. Sorry!
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Bea Konyves
Nov 22, 20211 min read
This writer is getting published!
I have so much work to get done, but I can’t continue anything until I write this. A few weeks ago I submitted two short stories for the...
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Bea Konyves
Oct 10, 20212 min read
Different genre mash-up - experimental story
1 Lucy slammed the door of her bedroom. Her life was flipped upside down when her Mum decided to quit her HR job and become a full-time...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 28, 20213 min read
The FIRST ever Music in the Streets in London was a success!
I was really scared and anxious this week. I won’t hide this fact. We managed to keep everything under control, and came up with...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 19, 20213 min read
11 years of DEIS - A Special Anniversary
Today we celebrate 11 years of DEIS and today we submitted the documents to register DEIS UK. We tried at midnight, but apparently, the...
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Bea Konyves
Aug 9, 20212 min read
21 and going through the quarter-life crisis
21. What does that even mean? 21 and going through what I discovered is called ‘quarter-life crisis’ - I think. As a kid, I couldn’t wait...
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Bea Konyves
Jul 19, 20213 min read
Progress is sometimes scary
I am writing this here just to get it off my chest. And maybe it will help someone else get through an episode of ‘progress anxiety’. I...
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Bea Konyves
Jul 11, 20213 min read
Covid Underground with @jeanine.celine
J: Who are you and what do you do? B: I’m Bea and I walk in many different shoes. For this interview, I’m a writer & blogger, but I’m...
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Bea Konyves
Jul 4, 20212 min read
B-Side 2 Years
It’s 2 years since the summer day when, after finishing my final exams, I was officially launching B-Side Blog from my hammock at the...
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Bea Konyves
Jun 1, 20214 min read
Summer's starting well
Consider this today’s #AdventuresOfTheMuddyShoes. It’s the first day of summer and Romania (along with some other countries) is...
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Bea Konyves
May 6, 20215 min read
On my left shoulder blade
What’s that on my left shoulder blade? A tattoo!? 😮🤯 Yep. It’s a tattoo. And the more I think about it the more meanings I find for it....
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Bea Konyves
Apr 10, 20211 min read
Short Stories <3
Sorry, this article is currently unavailable in English.
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Bea Konyves
Mar 21, 20211 min read
On Poetry
Poetry is random words you mean to write on paper and that other people try to make sense of. Modern poetry, that is… Or… … all poetry,...
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Bea Konyves
Mar 8, 20214 min read
I find it very cool that I was born a Woman
Did you know… that today we are celebrating International Women’s Rights Day? So today is not just about Women and how amazing we are,...
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Bea Konyves
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Non-formal in the Formal system
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Bea Konyves
Feb 5, 20213 min read
Virginia Woolf is officially my Feminist idol
I should be working on my Redrafting Journal for Short Story Writing or doing research for my next essay on Mrs Dalloway. Am I doing any...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 31, 20203 min read
The 2020 Diary
Dear Blog, This was the article I posted around this time, last year: I was not ready for 2020. And I think no one really was. It’s hard...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 25, 202010 min read
Let it snow (FULL STORY)
The First Noel I woke up inside a truck surrounded by bags of all sizes filled with drugs by all kinds. A stranger with piercings and...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 23, 20203 min read
Let is snow - PART 4 OF 4
Have yourself a merry little Christmas Arteus pulled into one of those truck parking lots and while I was finding the strength to get up,...
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Bea Konyves
Dec 23, 20203 min read
Let it snow - PART 3 OF 4
It’s the most wonderful time of the year Time passed. I didn’t know how much. One day it started snowing. The hunger and sleeplessness...
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