A quarter of a century

Yesterday was my birthday...the 25th day:)) Nothing special happened as I was all the way in Bistrita working...but I'm preparing for the great party:))

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I just don't get it

This morning I had to wake up at 5.30 because I had to catch a 7.35 flight to Cluj Napoca.

Everything was nice and smooth until the boarding moment. Of course all the flights were delayed due to heavy fog (understandable). Each 5 minutes the message: "Dear passangers, the flight no XXX to ABC is delayed do to weather conditions. We appologies and we thank you for your understanding" was heard in the speakers...WHAT FUCKING UNDERSTANDING???...I know it's an official message but it's freaking annoying...

The boarding of our flight was programmed at 07:05...of course it did not happen, but what really pissed me of was the fact that when they decided we should go to the airplane they put us on the bus and we waited...and we waited...I think we just stood there in the bus about 20 minutes until 2 idiots made their way to the gate...I'm just wondering now, after you do the check-in, beside going to the bathroom and drinking a coffee, which takes in average 10 minutes, what else can you do...can you get lost???...maybe, but how idiot can you be??? IS IT MEEEE??? :)))

Gusrabaaaaa...:))

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Winter vacation

One of the reasons that I haven't written any new posts is firstly because during my stay at home i had a very bad internet connection and secondly because since I came back in Bucharest I had to struggle a little bit to reenter in the rhythm. Now I finally have some peace and quiet time to tell you all about my winter vacation.

It all started on the 23rd of December when I left Bucharest hopping for a great 11 days vacation.

The first event was Christmas...successfully spent at my aunt's.

Next was the amazing party Fane organized at his place for his name day:


The week 27-31 December I spent it visiting people and enjoying the snow almost as much as I used to do when I was a little girl:









The final event was the NYE which was "organized" in the last moment (one day before) t my place:))...and we did what we do best...play around:))...until the first sunrise of 2011:




That was it. Everything was fun...but now I'm back in this stinky city trying to get back in the old life rhythm.

P.S.: I'm planning a huge adventure, but I'll tell you more when I have something concrete.

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Break a leg:)

First of all I would like to wish you all a happy new year!

I was absent from the blog for a while due to a very bad internet connection and now I have so many things to tell, that I don't know where to begin...and that is why I am not going to bore you with my stories...today I just want to wish GOOD LUCK to a friend of mine. We only met briefly for some days during my stay in Denamark last year but I know she is a great girl and she deserves all the suport in the world...so, this post is dedicated to Andreea Gavrilovici...I wish you good luck with your final thesis and here is one of my favorite songs, it's kind of sad but I hope you'd like it.

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The accent

Last evening I came back from a 2 days trip to Bistrita where I had to participate at a stock counting. I had another post about a local taxi driver and now I had another pretty amazing conversation with one of them.

" - You're from Bucharest, wright?

- Ya, we're coming from Bucharest.

- I could tell from your accent...

- :))))))) (what accent????)

- What? You didn't think you had no accent...as you say we have an accent, so do you."

And then I realized that he is wright. I always thought that I am on the right side and that the pother person was talking in a funny way, but never thought that the other person may think the same way.

Like most natural languages, Romanian can be regarded as a dialect continuum. The dialects of Romanian are distinguished by minor differences in pronunciation. Romanians themselves speak of the differences as accents or "speeches" (in Romanian: accent or grai). Several regional accents are usually distinguished:

• Muntenian accent (Graiul muntenesc), spoken mainly in Wallachi and southern parts of Dobruja.


• Oltenian accent (Graiul oltenesc), spoken mainly in Oltenia and by the Romanian minority in Timok region of Serbia. In Oltenia a notable dialectal feature is the preferred usage of the simple perfect rather than the compound perfect which is preferred elsewhere.


• Moldavian accent (Graiul moldovenesc), spoken mainly in Moldavia, northern parts of Dobruja and Moldova. Written (p) is at times realised as /k/, written before front vowels is sometimes realised as /ʃ/, written <ă>, in final position, is sometimes palatalized, written is rarely also pronounced /i/.


• Maramureșian accent (Graiul maramureșean), spoken mainly in Maramures.


• Transylvanian accent (Graiul ardelenesc), spoken mainly in Transilvania.


• Banatian accent (Graiul bănățean), spoken mainly in Banat. Written before front vowels is sometimes realised as /t͡ʃ/ and as /d͡ʒ/.

Over the last century, however, regional accents have been weakened due to mass communication and greater mobility.

At the end it's great that we can still manage to understand one another.

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The map of my adventures

Ever since I got back from my second euro-trip I wanted to buy a map of Europe in order to signal out the places I have visited so far. Last Saturday I finally managed to put the map on the wall and it looks like this:

The white dots present the cities I visited in the first euro-trip in 2007: Budapest, Viena, Praga, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Barcelona, Cannes, Roma, Venezia and Rijeka

The blue dots present the cities I have visited during the second euro-trip in 2010: Munich, Koln, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Goteborg, Oslo, Stavanger and Hamburg

The red dots are isolated trips: 2003 - Lisbon, 2010 - Madrid, 2008 - Split and Belgrad, 2009 - Creta, 2007 - Athens.

That's the resume of my adventure though-out Europe. Hope to put some other dots on the map really soon.

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Holidays

Tomorrow is Saint Nicholas and the tradition says that all the children that have been nice will receive presents in their boots tonight but this day is also celebrated by a lot of persons who have this name, and in Romania there are a lot.

One of this person is my uncle, so I went home with a nice cake to celebrate him. Saturday rained all day long so I didn't to much, but today when I woke up around 9 am the sun was shining so bright like in a summer day.

I took my camera and I went to my aunt's. We had to wait for my cousin to get back from work to begin eating and celebrating and as I was quite bored I began taking pictures of the three cats my ant has in her yard: Vasilica, Mircea and Costica (named so by my uncle) and here they are:




They are very knotty and make a lot of mess, but everybody loves them because they are so sweet:))

Coming back to the main event of the day we had a lovely meal and a delicious cake in honor of my dear uncle Nicholas.


Counting the days to Christmas and New Year's Eve.

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