Sinaia !

Lorka and me have been hiking in the very beginning of the Carpathians mountains during one week-end.

We've been there by bus, from Bucuresti it takes approximately 2h30. We had barely entered the minibus that a Spanish guy, 62 years old, very smart, spoke with us. He was going to visit old friends. Actually he was one of the rare foreign student to study in Romania during the communist times ! He lived 14 years more in Romania to work and had many interesting stories to tell us ! It was a bit diffidult for me to turn to Spanish, but actually, I prefer the spanish word music than English, so I enjoyed this spanish speaking trip !

Barely arrived in Sinaia's railway station a taxi driver took us for the same price as the telecabine would cost us to reach the second telecabine: Cota 2000. Then we took the telecabine and arrived into the clouds ! Nothing to see further than 50m !

Anyway, we walk to reach the refuge we want to reach: Cabana Babele. After 3h30 walking we reach this cabana ! And lucky us; they have 2 beds for us ! (A few weeks later, Fabienne has been there and didn't have this luck ! ) So, quite tired we slept at 10pm.

An oral contract between me and Lorca was to wake up when the sunrise was coming ! What we did, look at the photo in the night, they are taken from 4h30 in the morning !

A few hours later, after some self-asking philosophical questions about our ability or not to reach this famous Cabana Omu, at 2506m high, we reached this high point ! A few days after, Tiberiu, volunteer in ART Fusion, revealed us it's one of the highest point of Romania ! YEAH ! We did it !


PS: Thanks Hannah for the mountain shoes ;)

Recycle Race !

This is one of our creation: the recycle race ! The aim of this action is to sensibilize people to recycle and to explain them what can - concretely - become a bottle after recycling, for example. This street action is designed to be played close to a recycle point with 3 different bins: Plastic in blue, Glass in green, Paper in yellow. Scenario: 3 of us are disguised in athletes and will run in a slow motion style towards one of these recycle bin. One "non recycling persons" empeach them during their race to symbolise the problem that have - here in Romania - people to recycle. But the athletes always win, together "beating" the "enemy". The idea is to show that it's always possible to make an effort an that together we can collaborate. At the end the athletes have a trophy handmade by us with garbage. We played this 5 minutes street actions in Herastrau Park and in Tineretului Park, we'll continue it in Vama-Veche on the beach during a whole week-end.

Giom's B day!

Happy B day Giom!
We celebrated yesterday the 25 years of Giom in EVS!
For shure it was special!

Fond Camp in Covasna!

Last week we spent 4 days participating to the Romanian Development Camp, organised by FOND association. The aim of this camp was to gather different actors of the development cooperation field, (NGOs, ministries, members of Parliaments, journalists...) to speak about topics related to this, and especially the role of new EU members like Romania as donor countries and in the achievement of Millenium Development Goals.
It took place in Covasna, close to the mountains, in a 4 stars hotel...!! and our task was to ensure that everything goes well, guidind people, holding the microphones during the debates, taking notes for reports, answering to the questions of the participants...
and of course, it was the occasion for us to listen to conferences about topics related to our project, see movies and meet very interesting people.
Even though we were quite ashamed sometimes to stay in such a luxury place talking about these topics...we enjoyed a lot this camp and the people there were quite interested in our EVS project, we had intense work reflexions and very good free times together.
Too bad that the weather was so bad that we couldn't really discover Covasna, but we were already lucky to be able to participate to this event, to stay in a place that we probably never experience again, and we will try to use what we learned in the future and discover more by ourselves !

Fond Camp in Covasna!

Tomorrow morning early, starts the Fond Camp.A seminar that will happen in Covasna, in the mountains of Transilvânia.We are not there to rest, but to work.Our days will start at 7 am, we must have breakfast before the 90 participants, and prepare everything.We will work all day till 20 am, and then yes, we can take a dip in the pool, and relax.A lots of figures relating to the MDG'S will be present, which is a unique opportunity to learn and to listen to them, because we can participate in discussions and sessions. Our functions is guide and assist all participants during the seminar, pass microphones, translations, registration of participants, etc ...
The theme is MDG'S that concerns us greatly, and in which we worked on our project, the Globe in Mirror.The 8 goals of Millenium!
I have no doubt that we will be tired at the end of the day, but in a place like this, surely we can breathe the fresh mountain air and return to Bucharest richer and with new ideas.

Until Sunday.

Film Projection

All Mondays, around 20.30 pm, our team make for free, film projections, with very interesting films...in the bar, E...Varza, close of our flat, in calea Mosilor!

Join us inside of Cabana and just let the stories come into you!


TODAY IT'S A PROJECTION OF SHORT MOVIES...

Stree delivery was this weekend!

This week-end took place a street festival named Street Delivery, in Strada Verona in Bucuresti. This was organised by Cartureste and we went to enjoy it during our free time.

The street was closed to let place to a lot of people presenting handmade craft, second hand clothes, jewels…and so much beautiful things !

Some spaces were organised to chill out, and we could enjoy DJs sets, and street circus animations.

For us, it was the occasion to meet with other volunteers and some friends and have a good time there. Rita even involved herself in the project of another association selling lemonade to get money for the children who have cancer.

We really liked the concept of this festival. The atmosphere was good and the people there very cool. Too bad it’s only one week-end and not every week-end of the summer ! ;-)

Official end of School/ Exibithion

The official end of school.
They were very beautiful...and nervous.
Fabienne and Me (Rita), we were there to look at their little play about environment and say goodbye one more time, and to prepare our exibithion, outside. Photos, and some recycle materials, that we made during these weeks.
The happiness to see each other one more time was a mutual feeling.
We hope that our work was a gift for the future of this kids.Because all of us can change this world, and put it better.

Last activitie in School nº 5!

It was a real treat, the last day of activities in shcool nº 5.
We cooked typical things of each of our countries ... crepes, rice pudding, bread with garlic and olive oil, tea, cakes, and a lots of music and dance to say goodbye.It was so nice!
What we got with our work there, we don't not know yet, but one day will see the results of this part of the project at school nº 5.
I believe that we always leave a little piece of something.
And if we do not believe this, then we are lost!
The goodbye was in this day...but i did not know that i will coming back.
We will miss them, and it was a great time together !her.