Well, at long last Episode 5 is now available for your viewing pleasure :) For those of you who aren’t mathematically challenged, you might wonder what happened to Episode 4 and you’d be right :P The truth is that a few technical issues were driving me nuts with clipping so many interviews (plus adding subtitles) that I just wrapped up Episode 5 and will finish … Continue reading Romania! The Documentary – Episode 5
I took this photo in Brasov earlier this week and it’s a real, working model although I didn’t play it. It gave me goose bumps to see it because it’s been many years since I’ve seen a Pac Man cabinet game like that and it brought up a lot of old, old memories. On the side of the cabinet and on the front (look right … Continue reading Poza Zilei: Loose Change
You know, a lot of the times my Word of the Day series focuses on either obscure or unusual or linguistically interesting words and I realize this may not be of much use to the person who is just beginning to learn Romanian. If this is you, today you are lucky because the word zebra (zeh-bruh) is not only easy to pronounce but also easy … Continue reading Word of the Day: Zebra
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been riding a lot of inter city buses lately as well as speaking with fellow passengers who are “old hands” at the system. And I have to be quite frank – the inter-city bus system in Romania is pretty awful. The only bright spot is that there is a rather comprehensive website that details just about every … Continue reading The Wheels on the Intercity Bus go Round and Round
I’m going to file this post under Poza Zilei (Picture of the day) because I’m going to write a much longer post in the near future on the subject but today’s photo was taken inside an intercity bus. This sign encapsulates the kind of hectoring attitude that is pretty prevalent in Romania, about which I’ve written about at length here (and in my book) under … Continue reading Proof of Civilization
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