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Amazing day!

I set my alarm clock for 8:59...I woke up at 10:15. got dressed and was out of the dorm by 10:40. got to the Univ.
found 100 kroner...remember when I found 50 in the beginning...now I'm a week away from leaving.
I thought, if I would stay for another semester..I'll probably find 200 at the beginning of the semester and 500 at the end hahaha
no seriuosly..poor person who lost it.
I bought gifts for friends ... so I don't feel so bad about finding the money anymore :D

then I got my documents settled and went to say goodbye to my awesome teachers. they were really nice..it was a pleasure to know them and as they put it...they were pleased to have me there as well :P

I got an A at my Beat Culture class...Michael made me blush, he said wonderful things about my play :D

next thing: I got a book for free from the libary, just because it has a few pages floating around. yeey

on top of everything I got a great reference from the Student Radio to take home!

I'll go to a pizza buffet tonight and tomorrow I'll plan my trip to Bergen and Oslo.


this is from another pizza party with my special girls! Thank you: Eva, Ann-Katrin, Melanie, Anita, Pauline, Nastassja, April, Sanaa!

and this is from the white turned colorful t-shirt party...sad times...I miss a lot of wonderful people.


last but not least I want to wish a good friend a warm and happy birthday! love ya Onu!

I'll write again before leavig to let you all know what I thought of the rainiest city in Europe and the Oslo Christmas market. Can't wait to see my family friends again!!!

keep your cheeks rosy, your hands in mittens and your heart warm!
take care all!
oh...Norwegian things - loosing money, smiling and whistling on the street, decorating trees and streets with good taste. Candles, wooden hearts and stars on doors. Children of 8 jumping into freezing water along with their family.

bracing myself for the reverse culture shock

so...I have just one exam to go...not nervous at all...
Had an oral exam and a theatrical performance, which turned out to be one of the most amazing things I did...ever.

ok...so...these little dots that I keep annoying you with are the non-verbal expressions of my deep meaningful thoughts that you won't get because you won't "get me" when I come home :P well some might, and some might be like "shut up" or "watevs" or "where's my gift?"

all in all can't wait to see you guys and I promise I won't be over-talkativy and braggy.

just found out about reverse cultural shock, I knew I was going to face it, I just didn't know it had a name -dots dots dots-
now that I think of it..my shock will be greater than the one people from Germany, France or US will have..it's Romania after all...

http://www.vagabondish.com/how-to-survive-reverse-culture-shock/

you should be supportive of my "disease" when I return! :P

So..what else

-14 C, walk half an hour to the univ to study almost every day.
goodbye parties, sad times
wonderful scenary, untouched snow, frozen lakes and boats in the docs
amazing sunsets
sweet people I am sad I didn't get to know better
the thought of you
the thought of me
having rice and milk with ccinnamon and raisins...the thought of home

I am going somewhere and not just going back home...16 days to go

mon jardin d'hiver

this is a winter garden, a place where we're safe, warm, happy. where we bloom and grow and leave a mark. this is a semester on exchange.

the snooooow keeps on fallin' even if we were bad :D

And what I mean by bad...is behaving like the opposite sex. I neeever been to so many parties that I had to dress up for!

This time I was a French guy...reaching puberty...my moustache "fell" aka getting wiped off by the end of the night...
Interesting to see that the "girls" had more fun than us...although we "guys" got to laugh at the high-heeled-sockboobs-shortskirt fenomenon. They seemed to behave in a way they would like girls to behave...kinda cheap, but of course if we were to do that, we would be something from a house with red curtains and dim lights :P
It was hard to behave like a guy, especially French...not too boyish, not too girlish...I should have been a transvestite...oh well :P
This happened on Friday



Yesterday - trip to Mandal and the southernest point in Norway
Me and Patricia, a girl from Germany went to visit a class-mate who kindly offered to show us arround Mandal, a small town 40 min. from Kristiansand. She and her husband were great! They took us to Lindesnes Fyr - The Lighthouse on the south coast of Norway. After loosing our way because of road/bridge reconstruction we finnaly got to the Fyr (lighthouse)
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After this awesome trip we were invited for dinner, and not any kind of dinner but an Iraqi meal, Zinab, being from Iraq. A lovely atmosphere, exotic food that looked and tasted like "sarmale" and "ardei umpluti" - Romanian dishes, only so much more aromatic.


Finnaly we got to dancing on Arabian songs and I got to learn some more words :D

We left Mandal, barely catching the buss, at 6:55 p.m.

It was a wonderful day for a trip...snowy, not too cold, and the company was lovely!

third month pregnant with Norwegian space and time...

Love my view!












Don't you?

forever autumn

hai la hoora mai baieeeti!

Romania at the international pub

Mexico with the day of the dead, France with the croissants and me and others singing "La nuit" from the movie "Les chortistes", Hungary with Sziget and Romania with hora and tuica.

Essentially we just got people to like us by showing them a world without Romania, by twirling them in our traditional dance (which they were really good at - jos palaria!) and giving them 60% alc. shots...

I was really surprised when showing them the tourism clips with the land of choice...they knew Nadia and Hagi...yuhu. Some were disappointed because we ruined the Dracula myth...and the steel from the Eiffel Tower is from Resita...


All who tried loved our tuica! They went: brrrrr, phuuua, mmm wtf?! Nice to see distorted faces in the dim lights of the University street...because the guys from the bar did not let us serve it inside...but tuica is best when in nature, when it’s cold outside, when shared with friends :)

If you don’t already know...I have my own radio show.
It’s at the Agder University student radio...every Monday from 5 to 6. So have your tea and listen to Exchanging sounds...an international beat of the heart!


I just have exchange students over and talk about their countries, traditions, music and about how they like/hate it in Norway.
Here's the link:
http://lyd.uia.no:8010/listen.pls

You can search for Exchanging Sounds on facebook also and give me a piece of your mind...

Oh and I really wanted to write something about a phenomenon!
You know how in the olden days it was said that each town should have it's crazy person...so other people would know they are sane, well in Brasov we have the old beggar who calls everybody Lenon, the dude with the radio...and in Cluj...we have the phosphorescent guy {he has to be maaad to walk around like that :))}
In Kristiansand they have Santa! It's an old guy, white beard, tall, friendly.
He just stops everyone and says "hai! hai!" And then ask other things which I can't understand. So I told him sorry and he began in English. Each time it’s the same story.
"Are you from England? Scotland? Ireland?
You are a young girl, pretty young..."
And I just smile and say "takk" and "ha de bra" and go my own way...

So yeah...guess things do happen in every part of the world...things that make you wonder, that remind you of who you are, what you have, lost, might never understand...

In other wooords...please be true to yourself and others...it's a great thing to be insane sometimes...ok..ok..I had tuica myself...I'm rambling...I'm going to stop now...any moment...now! :))