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The Easter was this year, 2007, in Piatra Neamt, a parade of colourful lights, Easter bunnies and gigantic, shining Easter eggs. This city was a real light show and a joy for all the children of the city.All trees were decorated with colourful lights, and the streets were like in fairy-tales.
In Romania, the greatest threat to life today is not poverty, climate change or al-Qa'eda. It's moving air. Fans, air conditioning and open windows are not - as I had thought - useful mechanisms to generate a nice breeze, or give a little respite as summer temperatures climb to around 40 degrees. They are weapons of mass destruction.This reality first appeared to me while staying with the family of a good friend of mine, in order to give the exams for the faculty. It was late august, temperatures over 40 Celsius and everything to the leaves in the trees was completely motionless. I opened the window of the room I was staying in, hoping some air would enter the room and refresh me a little. In less than a minute, my friend’s mother rushed from the other side of the apartment: “CURENT, please close the window!”And I observed similar strange behaviour elsewhere. Both at home and work, panic...
Romanians are a very warm and friendly people and will often hug and touch more and stand closer to you than other cultures. Accept the hospitality as long as you are comfortable, as it would be seen as rude to someone who does not understand they are being invasive.
I was expecting to have some difficulties to communicate in Romania. But, in spite of all I had heard, communication wasn't a problem at all!!! Many people speak english (at least a little) and those who don't are usually very helpful and make efforts to communicate.Romanians are proud of being friendly and helpful.
good morning - buna dimineata;good day - buna ziua;good evening - buna seara;good night - noapte buna;farewell - drum bun;bon apetit - pofta buna;excuse me - permitet;please - va rog;thank you - multumesc;good bye - la revedere;yes - da;no - nu;What time is it? - Cit je ceasul?;My address is ... - Adresa mea este ...;What is your name? - Cum va numiti?;Your address is? - Ce adresa aveti?;friendship - prietenie;Where is ..? - Unde este ..?;When? - Cind?;Where? - Unde?;on the right side - la dreapta;on the left side - la stinga;street - strada;hotel - hotelul;restaurant - restaurantul;confectioner´s - cofetaria;post office - posta;embassy - ambasada;bookshop - librarie;chemist´s, pharmacy - farmacie;hospital - spital;physician - medic;railway station - gara;airport - aieroportul;bus-stop - stazia de autobus;ticket for - biletul de;bus - autobus;train - tren;airplane - avion;ship -...
Trying to dry clothes or something? I have seen clothes in mid-winter like this in quite a few parts of romania. But i haven't been able to figure out yet why people actually do this. I would assume it is not the most preferable to have your clothes covered in snow (or soaked in rain).
Why is traditional Romanaian music popular with even fairly young adults? The teenagers listen to American, European techno-pop, or home-grown rock bands. Everone else listens to accordion and fiddle-based traditional music. Even if they dress like 1960’s club acts and have miniskirted girls dancing alongside (Louis Prima plays your Romanian favorites at the Copa), it’s still that rapid sequence of shrill notes in a narrow range, very Middle-eastern sounding. As we found in Ireland, the problem is not in finding authentic traditional music but in escaping it.
I '' ll not speak about a Cultural Guidance, I will speak abot Manele. A music tipe .The "Uncyclopedia" says:How to become a manelist ?! 1. Pick a cool name (also known as "nume de bashtan") (Elvis, Anisei, Bica Danila, Anelka Balauru' Fermecat, Florin Fermecatoru', Englezu, Chipes, Salam, Ciorba, Peºte, Puºtiu, Pãlincã, Barbosu DeLaVrancea etc)2. Mandatory lack of culture, and IQ close to a glass of water3. Must own: limo, castle, faraoanca (a kind of queen, but more slutty) and boraci (puradei, rumanian word for gipsy children/intestinal parasites)4. Family in jail, and relatives living under a bridge, in card board boxes 1)mandatory words:chicks ("fetitze/bagaboante"),money ("bani/parai/lovele") , enemies ("dujmani"), "golani", women ("femei"/"fumei"), princess ("printesa"), drink ("bautura"), dollars ("dolari"/"marci"), gold, millionaire, Mercedes, cellphone ("celular"), heart,...
We spent a lot of time driving through farmland in Romania. Instead of the large, corporate farms you find in the US, the farms here seemed to be all privately owned, each owner out in the field hoeing and weeding by hand or with the help of a horse and plow. Someone along the way explained to us that this was because under Communism everyone worked on collective farms and still didn't have enough to eat so that when they got their private land back, they preferred to keep their land separate from their neighbor's. It's rare to see anything mechanical to aid in farming.
Local customs in its traditional form can still be observed in the nothern Romania, in Maramures. Instead of tradtional wooden achitecure ,you can admire very live local tradtions.In Botiza I was invited to a traditional wedding party. (People who kindly invited me were total strangers to me, but it's normal in Romania:-).At the wedding party people danced tradtional dances ( they also taught me how to dance them!), women were wearing tradtional clothes, the music was played by a local, traditional band. And the foood was fantastic, out of this world!That was the best party ever! I was back home at 6 am:-)
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Q: Buna Ziua all! It's the marshmallow/Christmas-tree/asks-too-many-questions guy! Lol! So, I feel I asked about this once but,...
A: Ooops, I didn't mean "dinner" for 2 but, MEALS for 2. :p
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