Hungarian Abstract/Magyar Kivonat: Borsai Csaba, a budapesti Regnum Marianum iskola földrajz és biológia tanára ezer kilométeres kanadai biciklitúrára viszi diákjait. A diákok megismerkedhetnek Québec és Ontario tartományokkal, valamint az ott élő magyar közösségekkel is találkoznak.

Csaba Borsai, a secondary school teacher at Regnum Marianum High School in Budapest, is set to take his students on a 1000km long bike tour of central Canada this summer. Entitled „A Bridge between the Danube and the Saint Lawrence,” the Catholic school’s tour is not only aimed at introducing these students to the Canadian landscape, but also serves as a type of protest against global warming. Tour participants will make the lengthy, 23-day journey from southern Quebec to southwestern Ontario without being escorted by a car. As such, the students will have to take all their equipment and personal belongings with them on their bikes.

In addition to the tour’s goal of raising awareness of key environmental issues, the students will also use their encounters with Canadians as an opportunity to introduce them to Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and her lifestory. Mr. Borsai’s students will perform short sketches depicting the saint’s life to Hungarian communities in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and will visit a long list of smaller towns in Ontario, including Vankleek Hill, Rockland, Smiths Falls, Portland, Kingston, Picton, Brighton, Oshawa and Pickering. While in the nation’s capital, the Hungarian students will have the opportunity to tour Parliament Hill, as well as visit the Royal Mint, Rideau Hall, the Hungarian 1956 monument on Maple Island, as well as tour Gatineau Park. The students will also put on a short play for Ottawa’s Hungarian community, at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Nepean.

Mr. Borsai is a biology and geography teacher at the Regnum Marianum school. „When I first started working as a teacher, I decided that I would try to show my students things that they would not find in their textbooks. We have been just about everywhere within Hungary and over the years, I have also taken my students on tours of Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States,” said Mr. Borsai in an interview.

Canadian Hungarian Journal