Blogs from Romania, Europe - page 87

Auf vereinzelten Wunsch speziell meiner Eltern, gibt’s jetzt ausnahmsweise diesen Eintrag auch nochmal auf deutsch. Also wir haben gleich die Gelegenheit genutzt, da ja am letzten Donnerstag in Ungarn irgendeine Unabhängigkeitstag ist und es da dann sowieso immer Krawalle gibt, zu flüchten und mal einen längeren Trip nach Rumänien, speziell Transilvanien zu machen. Ich hab dann auch schon frühzeitig mit den Planungen begonnen, dass alles nach deutscher Ordnung und Präzision abläuft. So habe ich dann 2 Minivans für je 9 Leute angemietet. Waren 11 Studenten aus Budapest, 9 aus Debrecen und natürlich noch meine Schwester Nina in Rumänien, die für uns den Dolmetscher spielte. Ein sehr multikultureller Haufen: je 4 Deutsch und Portugiesen, je 2 Polinnen und Türkinnen, sowie je 1 Tschechinn, Finne, Italienerin, Singapur und Südkorea waren vertreten. Nach einem gemeinsamen Abendes... read more

Here i am again in front of the computer, testing my English skills :). This entry is about Romania and how really beautiful it is, how people are so different in all parts of the country. Last weekend i decided to hitch-hike around 700 km and to see a small part of Romania and to see some friends of mine in an AIESEC conference. So i took 2 new members from AIESEC Pitesti and we left to see a few towns in the heart of Romania (Valcea, Sibiu, Sighisoara, Sovata). During the 700 km we changed 10 cars and 2 buses. The interesting part of this trip was that in every car we met new people and i realized that the people from the center of Romania are THE NICEST PEOPLE EVER. At first they are ... read more

Here are a few pictures of the members of AIESEC Pitesti that i have seen since i got back to Romania. Old members and new members work together to bring results to the organization, it's a nice feeling to see them work and i think they will do a great job. It's hard not to get involved when you see how much passion they put in everything they do. I can say that AIESEC Calgary and AIESEC Pitesti are my "home LCs" and maybe soon AIESEC in Lithuania will be the 3rd one. ... read more

Hey I got home and i am writing my first post from Romania, actually from aiesec office. I got home 5 days ago and i still have problems with the time difference, i have a cold and i need to sleep all the time. Yesterday i had the impression that is 28 and i was working like crazy on some trainings. The first thing that i noticed about Romania is that ...it's small, and my home town looks like a cold brick with pieces of culture, i had more cultural shocks back home than in Canada, taxi drivers trying to take advantage of me, people not smiling, humidity, chaotic traffic, etc. I didn't immagined that i will see Romania like this, but i even noticed the huge pile of garbage from my street and i was ... read more

Got back to Europe and back to Romania, the first thing that hit me, leaving apart Austrian's rudeness and their total, absolute lack of communication, was the cold weather. Romania is pretty much the same as I know it , not much has changed, got back to a sad-looking, depressing grey image , so familiar and somehow so remote! I miss people smiling to me on the street, talking to me out of the blue sky and just being genuinely happy and cheerful. Yes, weather does influence our state of mind! I hate this grey, bleak winter, it is so demoralizing, I don't feel the joy I felt only 10 days ago, travelling to Villa de Leyva and admiring the landscape. There is no landscape here, we are surrounded by greyness. Everything around me is grey!:((( ... read more