I left a "Hello! How are you this morning? How may I help you?" for a "Miscati-va si voi mai repede cu bagajele ale!"("Move faster with that luggage!"), said by a very polite Otopeni employee at the same airport.
What can I say?!... when it comes to the behavior of tellers and any other kind of public functionaries , the American system kicks the Romanian system's ass (*it's a private blog and I can use any kind of language I see fit to use :D).
The things I haven't missed in Romania:...everything except my family, my friends and my pets, so I figured out that I can live anywhere in the world that's habitable, as long as I have the people I like and love with me and I can even live without them...but not for very long.
I went to the USA with 7 friends, I came back from the USA with loads more.
On our big trip on the West Coast we traveled over 2300 miles (2300*1.609344Km=3701.4912Km) and we visited: San Francisco (If I ever had a sh** load of money, I would surely move to SF...it's the most beautiful city I have ever set foot in.), Alcatraz (the famous prison of Al Capone), San Jose, Monterey(there is a beautiful aquarium there), Santa Barbara (where they have a Zoo that recreates the natural habitat of the animals so they feel like home; the facility is made only with the help of donations), Los Angeles (where we visited Hollywood with the Walk of Fame, Disneyland - "Where all your dreams come true..." and Long Beach), Las Vegas (the city that never sleeps, the city of kitsch opulence, the city of fake Venice and casinos), Hoover Dam, Yosemite Park and the breathtaking West Coast shore, where the Pacific Ocean mesmerizes you.
The West Coast has been a fantastic place to spend our summer and I can honestly say that this has been the best vacation ever.
Have a great beginning of the new school year!Hopefully you will not face the cruel bureaucracy I had to fight with in order to get my dorm room.
For those I left in the USA: I'll miss you guys a lot. Hope you'll come and visit sooner than I expect that to happen.
Joe: Take care, stay safe, don't smoke, dream sweet..the dream-catcher is guarding you for me :)!
Chris: stay away from that bong, keep your head smooth as a baby's bottom :)!
Paypay: keep writing on those walls Logic one, Paypay the dawn, but don't get caught :).
Here's a glimpse of what we visited:
2 comments:
misto poze, mai ales aia cu tufisul :P sa-mi arati mai multe.
si acum un pic de seriozitate: te rog, incearca sa nu cazi in capcana romanului intors din strainatate, aceea de a compara totul, cand pentru comparatii ai avea nevoie de un etalon comun care, in mod evident, nu exista.
Welcome home & have a great 1st semester! whach my bed for me, will you :P
I'm not falling into any trap, trust me...it's just kind of disappointing, but I should know better, after all, I've been living in Romania since I was a fetus :D.
It's not the fact that I don't like Romania,'cause I have to admit, it has some beautiful things to surprise you with(not an ionic remark). If you think about Sibiu, Timisoara, the mountain side etc....you just start to get an idea of the huge potential that this old land has, but the element that ruins a lot of its beauty is the human, more exactly the plain Romanian.
The post wasn't referring to the actual country, it was referring to the ones that make this place such a lovely one(ironic remark)...the people.
PS: Have a great semester abroad and have no fear, your bed is being watched.
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