More places and people

As I already told you in another blog entry, we had a party for Gosia, as she was leaving some days later. I got some more pictures and, of course, I want to share them with you.

We started the Good-Bye Party at "La bebe", where we had something to drink and some dancing. We stayed there until maybe 10p.m.

Afterwards we went to Gosia's place, where the AIESECers from Navodari partied longer. The party was everything for me: frustrating, funny, boring, exciting, full of good and bad things.

These are Valy and Poto. They are the male part of AIESEC Navodari, both crazy and amiable. As it was a good bye for a Polish girl, the Polish wodka wasn't missing. Don't the boys look very happy with the bottles?


Upside down... I want to turn the whole thing upside down. I'll find the things they say just can't be found...


This is a riddle. I want you to find the forth person in this picture.


This was the team in the end. From left to right: Valy, Magda, Claudia, Me, Gosia, Poto.

Last week on wednesday, we wanted to spent a nice evening with Gosia. We met her at Tomis Mall and went for a really good Shaworma at Cin-Cin (where I also had y very first Shaworma). There we met Iulian, a guy from AIESEC. It was so great to have a last evening in such a small round just with 4 people. This is always better to have an intense good-bye with people, and this really was a special good-bye. We bought a bottle of wine after our dinner and went to the beach. docens of steps led down to the beach and somewhere in between we sat down on a little wall, had a fantastic view over the sea and talked to each other. I felt very melancholic at one point of time. The whole sight had something really romantic...
But let me just shortly tell, what happened as well:

This is Iulian. Actually he is a really nice guy, but this evening he was really bad behaving, or at least a bit carefree. When we went to the beach, we had this bottle of wine which we emptied. Gosia put a message in this bottle and wanted to throw it into the sea. Therefore, we went to something like a quayside at the beach. It was a nice way from asphalt in the past, but now all the surface of the quay is broken and huge pieces loom out of the sea. Magda, Gosia and Iulian didn't have any problems to pass these pieces, but I wore high heels, as I didn't know that the plan will be to go to the beach. Thus, I needed help form the other, which they also provided. But at one point Iulian became really carefree. He just grabbed me from the front, held tight to me and jumped from rock to rock. As he couldn't see anything anymore, he stumbled and we both fell. Iulian had a wet foot (he was suddenly standing in the sea) and I had a scraped leg.
The worst thing was then that we suddenly realized the time. It was 20min to 11p.m. and the last bus to Navodari was about to go at 11p.m. from the main station. This meant: running! Over the sand, up the stairs (there were many stairs leading down to the beach) and to the next cab. With a newly wounded leg, this was definitely not so nice. But in the end, everything was still fine. :)


Three girls in the mountains? No. This is the quayside, I was already talking about.

Preparing for the global Village. Yesterday we had a Global Village at Traian High School together with the kids. That meant, we also had to prepare some food to show how we eat in our countries. Therefore, we went shopping on saturday right after the trainings in the high school and afterwards to Narcis' place to prepare all the food. We had a fun time doing this.

I'd call this a very well-balanced meal.


Look! A bathtub full of cabbage. It is just hidden under a thin layer of pasta... :)


Woah!! Finished with cooking! We prepared six meals in about 5 hours! As we could only use two hot plates at a time, it took ages until everything was done. But I'd say it was worth it! We had: Two polish dishes (Faworki - cookies, and sth. from cabbage, pasta and sausage), two Taiwanese dishes (a soup and baked chicken), and two German dishes (Kartoffelsalat - potatoe salad, and Fleischklopse - meat balls).
From left to right you can see: Me, Madeleina, Polly, Narcis, Flo, Magda



The Global Village is about to start. The students are waiting for the presentations to come. Actually there should have been much more students, as there are 78 subscribed for the program.



Sitting and watching the presentations. From left to right: Mihaela, (don't remember her name), me, Flo (my trainee buddy), Elena (a student), Ramona (OCP of the project).


The country presentations. All in all we had 9 presentations, with Polly (Taiwan), Magda (Poland) and me (Germany), and 6 groups of students for the six regions of Romania. I unfortunately don't remember, which region of Romania these guys presented, but the clothing is great! Many students really had cool traditional clothing for the presentations. I liked that very much.


Magda and me with one of our students. :)


Narcis and me after the Global Village has ended. She is a really cute girl. I like her very much! We were both really exhausted, as the cooking took us so long the last day, but you can also see that we are more than happy, that another exhausting event was finally finished.


Woah!!! I found a Trabbi! And what a Trabbi! I'd say, Germany is never very far away from you. This jewel I found in Navodari not far from where I stay these days.

Nostalgia

Minulla on sinua ikävä, minun ystävä! (I miss you, my friend!)
:-*

Places and People

Ok, this time I will just show you some pictures from last week. I will only tell some short words about the people or or the places. But soon there will be more coming! I am just so tired, as we had a Global Village today, where different countries or regions are presented. This was a bit exhausting in the end.
So, let's start with the pics...


This was on my third day in Constanta. We were in a club called "La bebe". It was really nice and in the end we had a really good Tequila together. The girl is Gosia and the guy is the one with the funny name: Erwin.


Here we have Cretzu. I love his hair! :D


May I introduce you to Sex on the Beach? He is friends with Mojito, a street dog whom we know. ;) Mojito is always lying at our bus stop and in the nights, he comes with us, when we are walking through Navodari.


Me and my Polish Girls!


Puppies!!!!! I want one of them!


You can find this kind of block of flats everywhere in Constanta. I really like them. They are not as boring as the ones we have in Chemnitz.




Look at my great students, how they are working and thinking! :)


This is near the Ovidius University Campus. I kind of like that building. But don't ask me, why!


This Elephant is standing in Navodari. I really wanted to have a picture of it, as it has this funny bear and lion doing gymnastics with it!:D


The Eagle is somewhat cool! Right next to the elephant.^^


Now, finally I can introduce you to Mojito! He is the dog of Magda.


:D

So, let’s have fun, Girls!

The first day in Constanta was very interesting and adventurous. First I slowly started the day together with Ramona; I had a shower and afterwards my first Romanian dish, called Samale (I don’t actually know, how it is spelled). It is minced meat with cabbage and also some sour cream is put on it. Very good. :)
Then Magda came, the Polish girl with whom I will work in the same project. We went to the city to meet more people. Another Polish girl was there (Gosia), a Japanese trainee from Galati (Tomomi), and a Romanian AIESECer.

So, we went to see the city and the coast with the famous Casino from Constanta. It was awesome. Everything looked so different from a typical German city. New houses were found directly next to old ones, some of them were just collapsed and of greyish color, others had bright colors that almost caused aching in your eyes. When we visited a church and came out afterwards, some little boys were following us and asking for money. When we didn’t give anything to them, they kind of attacked Gosia with sticks. Afterwards we went to the Casino, but it was closed for renovation, so we had to corrupt the guard. 3 Lei for each of us were perfect for him to let us in. Thus, we had some minutes to have a look around and I am sure, it will look gorgeous, when it will be finished.




















After some more time at the coast we went to meet another Romanian girl and together with her we had some fast food: Shaworma (or however it is written). It is comparable with Kebab but they put French fries in them as well. Just so tasty!
Having had some coffee in another place later, we had a very interesting illegal ride in Poto’s car (he is a guy from the Local Committee) with 4 people in the back. In Navodari, where I am staying now, we had a nice get-together with more AIESECers and some very tasty pancakes and plenty of sunflower seeds. But the evening still wasn’t finished by then. Another hour or more at Magda’s place, then a walk to Gosia’s place to bring her home, let time go by fast enough. But on the way through Navodari we found many new friends. A bunch of dogs was following us and we felt as free as to give them names like Jägermeister and Mojito.

The next morning we had to get up again quite early, because we wanted to meet with Tomomi again. Of course, also this couldn’t happen without some corruption: We wanted to go one stop by bus without taking a ticket and some ladies stopped us. We actually would have had to pay 50 Lei for each of us and our data would have had to be taken. But in the end we paid just 50 Lei for us all together (it is around 12 €) and we could go off the bus.



Bad girls, bad girls, what you’re gonna do…

We then tried to get into a zoo for less money but we didn’t succeed, so we went on to the beach, as Tomomi doesn’t have a beach in Galati. On our way we saw a very nice front yard of a restaurant and actually we just wanted to take some pictures. In the end each of us had one wish, as we all threw a coin into a fountain, and a waiter wanted us to have some coffee inside. That was the wish he made, when he threw one coin, and it became true. We went inside and ordered something to drink and to eat. For just little money I got the best Tiramisu ever and the hot chocolate was also really good.

Miami? No, Mamaia.

We then had only a short time to be at the beach, as LC Conference was starting then, where the next EB was supposed to be elected. It was cool to get to know all the people from the LC and I had some nice talks with people. And I got a very cool Welcome package inlcuding e.g. a German-Romanian tourist guide. So, I can learn some Romanian now. :D After LCC we went to Club Phoenix, where I ate my second Sharowma, and had some more nice talks.




In the end we had a small party again in Navodari with Magda, Gosia, Tomomi, Claudia, Mihai, Valy, and Poto. It was very nice. :) We listened to music, talked a lot, played Mafia and even exchanged some massages. After the boys were gone, we girls actually all wanted to sleep in Magda’s bed, which is really huge. My German friends understand what I mean, when I talk about a “Spielwiese”. :D But Gosia and I had a very nice talk until late in the morning and therefore we then just took the bed of Claudia.

The next morning we unfortunately had to say good bye to Tomomi and Mihai, who are really very nice. But they are from Galati and therefore had to go back to their LC. Afterwards Magda and I used the time to work on our outlines for the weekend, as we were having a meeting with the whole LTBT (Learn Today, Build Tomorrow) team the next day. We were very efficient and in the end we had some really cool outlines for Saturday and Sunday. This was also actually the first day that we didn’t leave Navodari. In the evening, Gosia came again to our place and we watched the movie “Juno”, which is really good and very funny. :) After the movie Gosia went home and Magda had an appointment, so that was the first time in the last days since Saturday that I was alone. It somehow was a strange feeling, as you get used to people around you so quickly.
As I already mentioned, we had a meeting with the LTBT team the next day, so we went to Constanta and met at Deli’s place with the rest of the girls. It was nice to see people from the project and as we bought some felt 20 different candies, before we went to the flat, we also had some really good snacks. I tried funny Romanian candy and one thing was the funniest. It looked like “Bauschaum” and I guess, it even tastes like this. As I have never eaten Baumschaum, I can’t tell the difference. :D
When we were finished at Deli’s place, we went to a club called “La bebe” to have a drink with more AIESECers. It started slowly for me, but in the end I had so much fun. I stayed longer with Gosia, Julian and Erwin (Yes! His name REALLY is Erwin ;) ), to have some tequila. It was just so hilarious with them.


And this is me, enjoying the seaside. :D

No Easy Start to a New Adventure

When I went to Constanta in Romania to start my internship, I took the bus. The bus was supposed to take 36 hours to go from Leipzig airport to Constanta and I didn’t know why it takes so long. Now I know:

4.30 p.m. the bus leaves from Leipzig airport
5.30 p.m. first stop at Aral gas station
6.00 p.m. stop in Dresden to wait for more passengers for half an hour
7.05 p.m. stop Agip gas station
8.30 p.m. stop Praha to wait for more passengers for almost an hour
11.45 p.m. stop in Brno to wait for more passengers, afterwards I needed to ask another passenger to reduce the volume of his music (which sounded through the whole bus)
1.45 a.m. stop at rest stop, I had to ask the passenger again to reduce the volume of his music, as people wanted to sleep (he wasn’t very amused by this)
4.05 a.m. stop in Budapest to wait for more passengers
4.55 a.m. stop at rest stop, had to use a toilet which was very shitty (filled to the brim)
7.05 a.m. crossing of the borders to Romania
8.00 a.m. stop in Lugoj to wait for more passengers
8.40 a.m. stop at bus station (don’t know why, we just waited there for 20min or something like this)
10.30 a.m. stop in Deva where the first children were begging for money, afterwards a Romanian girl changed her seats and was now sitting in front of me, and she used buttons with sounds on her cell phone
12.15 - 55 a.m. stop in Sibiu, it was really warm outside and actually quite nice, but the guy with the loud music was seemingly still annoyed as he was spitting after me
3.00 p.m. stop at rest stop in Dedulesti
5.40 - 10.10 p.m. stop in Bucuresti to wait for the next bus to take, watched “Anger Management” and had to use the second very shitty toilet (just a hole in the ground and afterwards no tab water to wash the hands), also when we sat in the bus, the other passengers started very loud conversation (I just wanted to sleep and have my peace)
10.20 p.m. stop at a gas station (I don’t know the reason, as we were only sitting there and waiting for the bus driver for 15min)
01.30 a.m. finally reached Constanta!

I was nicely welcomed by Ramona, with whom I was in contact all the time before, to spend the first night at her place. Having arrived at the house where she lives with her family, I just saw a bunch of puppies falling over each other. It was six of them and only 4 weeks old. So cuuuuute! I will definitely take one of them to Germany when my internship will have ended. :D