“The East is no more what you think it is”

Here follows a part of a very enlightening article writen by a Romanian critic living in France, George Banu. In an article entitled « The East is no more what you think it is», coming from a french newspaper (Courrier International, n°992, p. 52) he explains to us how the East must not be seen [...]

The romanian french nationalism or the napoleon’s complex

In our EVS we are led to meet a lot of new people, most of who are very nice . A few of the people we have met, when I told them that I come from France, they often answered that Paris is a nice city compared to Bucharest. They describe to you that Bucharest [...]

Sunday on the countryside

Still very busy discovering Romania! Indeed each day, each week, each month, is full of new experiences, new opportunities… This last Sunday, Catarina, Hannah , Elke and me went to the countryside, 2 hours of Bucarest with one of our Romanian friends who invited us in his trip to visit his family and celebrate his [...]

The many charms of Bucharest

We have now been living in this strange city for two months and we begin to know it a bit. I have come from Paris and Paris is a beautiful and wonderful city which invites you to visit it. On the contrary Bucharest tries to lose you, to discourage you to visit it. If some [...]

My experience of Romanians and politics

Last sunday were the presidential elections in Bucharest. The president in activity won with 50.33%. Before the result I spoke with several romanian friends of mine and they said to me that they would’nt go to vote. I noticed a lot of discouragement and apathy in their political behaviour. Too much maybe for young people. [...]

One month later

Already more than one month that you are here, in Romania. Time is flying! Our first Romanian week has been spend in Predeal, a nice opportunity to travel, to see how are beautiful the mountains, but especially to meet some others volunteers in Romania. We came back to Bucharest, the mind full of great memories, [...]

Activities in October

After we came back from our On Arrival Training in Predeal we entered the world of A.R.T Fusion, that is certainly full of Art. In the week from the 12. to the 16. of October we did a Flash Mob, some Street theaters and we took part in the living library to stand up and [...]