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The past days weren't quite so sunny as I though ... and I found out last night that I was pretending I'm OK. Some kind of home sick, a little bit of "why I am fucking talking to you? why I'm listening to you?", "damn, I'm far from my native language", "damn, I'm doing it again and again ... stop yourself", and some of "how it would be if I'll ... or if ... or if ...". Not even looking back on the great parts of my 4+ months here couldn't make me aware of happiness. I am stubborn in looking to the bad ... yeah right, this is why I'm smiling.

Anyway, the reason for this post is the video and a story from Loredana's blog (for those of you that don't read romanian ... she did exactly the same great thing as in the video). I've asked for a hug from a stranger (I don't remember if only once) and I receive it ... it made me feel great :)

Year change

Hmmm… now it’s 2007; it sounds really strange for me, even after 7 years I’m still not used to the 2000 counting; I grow up in the 199x and the 21^st century looks really … SF :)

The 12.00 moment got me on the streets of Utrecht with Romanian guys (Cipri and Ionica and girl (Cristina … without Gelu :) ). It was a true Dutch year crossing: it begun raining and we’ve stopped in front of a bike store … to drink the Champaign (much more a bubbling wine, not the French brand :) ) and light up the fireworks. And speaking about fireworks … the sky was full of colors and the streets full of their noise; there were some really cute noise making things: you know the “pétard” that everyone is using in this time of the year … ok now think at 3 meters long line full of them; that’s really a noise making stuff.

And to make it a Romanian celebration we enjoyed the Romanian food (sarmale si carnati udate cu palinca de piersica) and listened and danced on Romanian specific music.

Happy New Year!

P.S.: Romania is part of EU ;)

My Christmas

I wished to spend this Christmas with some friendly and smiley people … and guess what? It really happened. It happened in Maastricht and the people were AIESEC trainees (some new for me, some that I’ve knew already).

I lived a strong Christmas feeling: carols in the background, Santa’s gifts (I got a head massage thing, really good and exciting ;) ; I think it was the only material gift for me this year, excepting the made in Wageningen Bitter from my firm :) ), Christmas tree (a trainee Christmas tree), traditional Romanian food (I haven’t eaten it in the past 3 months and I really enjoyed remembering its taste) and some other dishes from Malaysia, USA, Canada and Turky. Something else happened, something that I’ve missed for a while: long talks until 4 or 5 in the morning, just talking and having fun. On the first day of Christmas I fulfilled again my dream of traveling, this time in Maastricht: a mix of Dutch and Belgium, of Roman and 21^st century views.

Thanks David and Jake.

P.S.: a few days before going there I begun feeling like Christmas: in the middle of the night I wrote Christmas cards for back home.