It sure is better to be here right now than in Italy, where some kind of Anti-Romanian craze is running wild. There have been a series of crimes perpetrated by Romanians which have given the press and the authorities in Italy cause to build major cases against Romania, the Romanians and their permanence in Italy and the EU. No matter if the same ( Read more... )

.."Zece" by Florin Chilian, which was one of the first Romanian songs I listened to and have always liked. The musicmanship, the lyrics.. something to listen to at full volume and dream :)

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I'm definitely going to buy more of his music when I go to Romania soon.

..being interviewed by Romanian TV without any previous preparation, after a hour of public transport during rush hour.. well, those of you who don't speak Romanian obviously won't be able to appreciate the absolute horror of my pronounciation and misspelling and generally f*ed up grammar. I don't speak ALWAYS that bad, tell them stingoo!! (or do I?). ( Read more... )

Just a short update from Romania!
I am currently very comfortably sitting in front of stingoo's computer, while he is making dinner for me :) Serbian Rice, YUMMMM :) We went shopping together, and I had my first experience of a Romanian supermarket, experiencing once again the effects of Globalisazion. Same stuff as in Italy, Germany, Anywhere. Really. ( Read more... )

Even if I usually write in English, I do post sometimes links, rants or work related stuff in other languages. Until now, that was mostly confined to German and Italian, and in the past I even opened an own journal for entries in Italian (that would be lisafutura, which is out there languishing though). I never filtered, or even tagged those, but since now ( Read more... )

I did have a nap after lunch, and it was very pleasant. Truly.
Then I worked a bit, preparing for the translation of my presentation (meaning, reading some of the pertinent documents in Romanian, in order to gather together the right lingo).

Then I chatted a while on yahoo, first with Adela, then with lisa_thecat. It is a nice feeling when you can put ( Read more... )

..it is time for some more Romanian poetry that talks directly to my heart..
( Nichita Stanescu, Cântec de iarnă )

This evening I have dedicated a bit of time to chatting with strangers. Meaning, I went on a website where my profile is set on a strictly "want to find friends" basis. The website is located in Romania (www.sentimente.ro) and very much frequented by men from all over the world looking for the famous beautiful and sweet Romanian girlfriends ;). But ( Read more... )

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It has arrived. OMG.

( the book I have been waiting for ... with all my fangirlish crazy soul...for more than a month! )