Blogs from Sibiu, Transilvania, Romania, Europe - page 4

Kleiner Reisebericht aus Rumänien. Wer die SBahn Station noch nicht kennen sollte: das ist Neufahrn. Startpunkt fast jedes Weekendtrips. Auch der Schweizer BMW war wieder da wo er immer parkt ;-) (Insider) img=http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vYykZYf-JOg/TLH-CYraTZI/AAAAAAAADHg/6HzMBjz4C3U/s720/Cluj%20Sibiu%20002.JPG center Nach der obligatorischen Durchsuchung und Prüfung des Ausweises gab es erstmal ein entspanntes Frühstück in der glücklicherweise nicht überlaufenen Lounge. Super gestärkt traten wir dann die Sightseeing Tour mit dem BUS an. Bei nächsten Mal, werde ich aber noch die Chance nutzen, das neu entdeckte Fahrgeschäft zu testen: img=http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vYykZYf-JOg/TLH-F9BOaKI/AAAAAAAADHk/XF58RvywM10/s720/Cluj%20Sibiu%20003.JPG center Keine Ahnung, warum LH immer die ersten Sitzreihen beim CI blockiert. Folge dessen: Hinten voll, vorne leer. C war übrigens komplett leer.... read more

It is really cool that the 7th grade kids remember me from my last visit. If I'm fortunate enough to return I will certainly remember at least some of them personally. The teacher was about 10 minutes late to class so when I asked the class if everyone was there and they said "yes," I took it on myself to begin the lesson. They said their current assignment was to write a short paper on Leonard da Vinci. The easy thing to do was to have them read out loud portions of their papers. It soon became apparent a number of kids were cut&pasting from the same web site. I lectured them about original work and not using words they don't understand. Third grade kids are just beginning to take their English studies seriously and they ... read more

This is the day I was looking forward to. Some time with the kids. N. drove us to school because of his after-school plans. I walked around the center a bit until the English classes started. Word spread that I was there, as many of the older kids may have remembered my last visit. Unfortunately, I really couldn't identify any of them but they flocked around be nevertheless. Their bright faces were inspiring and their excitement was palpable. Carmen brought 6A and 6B together in one room in a special session. It was one way to make best use of my presence without interupting the flow of the school day. There were 6 long benchrows of kids and I placed myself in the middle of them, as opposed to in front. The Romanian way of teaching ... read more

Sibiu day 7-8 (June 13-14) A return trip in our van with the wooden bench seat to Sighisoura where we caught a local mini bus to Sibiu. The bus was packed but we arrived in good time our driver handling the crazy overtaking of other vehicles. A taxi took us to a hotel a bit out of town, so we would need to relay on taxi’s to get us around. A visit to the local art museum, and a walk around the old town was the order of the afternoon. Sibiu had recently been the European Capital of Culture and so was looking pretty pristine. The following day we had a full schedule, taking a private van to a glacial lake in the nearby mountains. The road up the mountain was pretty windy, but worth the ... read more

The next day we were planning to take the bus to Medias, then from there the bus to Biertan and after visiting the village we would have walked 5 km till the next village, Richis... but because the night before we arrived at the hotel after 11 PM, waking up early in the morning wasnt so easy. Actually we've missed the 11 AM bus to Medias only by 5 minutes. So we decided to take the 12:57 train but after I ve done some calculation our time wasnt enough. The train ride was quite interesting, its been a while since I traveled with the personal train (this train stops in every little station and its driven in slow speed). The ticket costs around 1,5 Euro and it takes 1 hour and a half to get to ... read more