I have to give credit where credit is due. The Romanian-language newspaper Adevǎrul has been running an interesting series – can 4 university students live on the legal minimum wage, which here is 461 lei (after taxes)? At today’s rate that’s 107 euros or 147 USDollars. Interesting concept but today I see the boys went grocery shopping and made some horrible choices. Still, they spent … Continue reading Eating Well in Romania On a Budget
Let’s dip our toes in the pool and see what we come up with, eh? :D First off, turns out if you’re interesting in caves, caving and cave exploration, this is your guy. With Romania being such a mountainous and hilly country, there are caves all OVER the place, some of them quite amazing. Yet another missionary has crossed over the border, this one going … Continue reading Early Christmas, Caves, Timisoara, Hungry, Homesick and a Peck of Missionaries
Every single morning I rise from my bed, face the rising sun and give a little short prayer of thanks that I live in a country as free as Romania. I truly do admire and respect and indeed cherish how free people are in this country, myself included. Yet the irony is that, in some respects, Romania is about 3/4th Communist with a sometimes massive … Continue reading A Velvet Fist In a Steel Glove
The other day I was reminded of yet another Romanian in TV/film, in this case the 2006 movie Children of Men. If you’ve seen this film, the protagonists get inside the camp and are met with their “inside contact”, a lady whose name is Marichka. I might be wrong but I think she’s kind of portrayed as a gypsy. In any event, she doesn’t speak … Continue reading Children of Men
Please note: the original dialogue was in Romanian and this is only a loose paraphrasing of what was said. It is not meant to be a word-for-word transcription and some elements have been compressed for dramatic necessity. The SCENE takes place in a bar in CLUJ-NAPOCA in ROMANIA. It is evening time. From stage left in walks THE DUDE, a Romanian guy with gel in … Continue reading Scene From A Romanian Bar
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