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One woman in Semlac, this week came to our house to teach us how to make flowers with paper...I hope we can make after for the children

A green house

The first snowing of the year made more beautiful the city of brasov. Here you can see some parts of the old city center. Baserica nigra, old town hall, the rose sinagoga..

traditional instruments and aptitudes from gipsi people. Art in pure state. They use percusion instruments like per (stick which them hit in the floor), capre (instrument with aparience of goat, to mark the rihtm). This gipsy people cross romania singing for food, drinks and money.

I'm so happy!!! Sun is starting to appear in our village, and everybody and everything looks better and everybody is more pretty... Do you know what I mean????

We'll enjoy sure!!! Yuuuuujuuuu!!!!!

Temeschburg in german, Temesvár in hungarian.

This time, my aim was to be where the 1989 rumanian revolution arised. We achieved it. To Laszlo and the city of Timisoara (a city well made), that magyar luteran minister and the Timisorean who spreaded the spark of the revolution.

REVOLUTION!!

One of the most historic place in Judetul Arad:

The Monastery of Radna

The Turkish Bazar

The Ortodox Church

...among others...

[[Lippa in hungarian, Липова in serbian, Lippa in german, Lipva in turkish]]

With the Monastir Feredeu, Cetate and gipsy houses (well, so many gipsy houses, I left those photos for another gallery).

Şiria (Hellburg in german, Világos in hungarian) is a commune located 28 kms from Arad. Well, I live in Paulis, so I reached there by bike, that day I made 44 kms, in a sunny day, the best move for a body (among others). The village has a population around 8000 citizens.

The fortress there was ordered to construct by the Hungarian King Bela IV, during the middle age, in the XIII century, after the mongol invasion came, to protect the territory, cause the Tartars destroyed and plundered all they can at their steps. Thus were constructed in the Arad province the fortresses of Siria, Soimos (Solymos in hugarian, 30 kms East from Arad, I have a gallery there below), and Dezna (Dézna in hungarian, NE from Siria).

Siria is also famous historically because there happened one focus of the 1848 revolutions into the then named Habsburg areas -austrian- against the hungarians, in the Hungarian Revolution in 1848. There, in 1849, fought an Hungarian army versus a Russian force who were alied with the austrian, surrendering the Hungarian one, then the austrian general Haynau ordered to kill 13 hungarian general rebels. Today, we can found a square in Arad with a statue conmemorating the fact.

On January 6th and 7th, I visited five of the well-known monasteries in Romanian Moldova, Bucovina region, as follow: Moldoviţa, Suceviţa, Putna, Humor and Voroneţ. Except for Putna monastery, all are listed in Unesco's list of World Heritage sites. I'm not able to show many pictures, as most monasteries imposed a tax on this, and it was forbidden inside the churches. I don't even own any photograh of the Voroneţ monastery, the more important one. Anyway, as I had little time to enjoy them, I found that it was better just to try to get involve in its magnificence, for which I was more than enough rewarded.

Azerbaijan and Romanya

Travelling in Romania

Bekescsaba (Bichişciaba in romanian), Debrecen (Debreţin) & Szeged (Seghedin). Those three are one of the most important cities in the Panonian Plain (as named by the Roman Empire to administrate their whole province). That vaste territory was in the Terciary Age (Cenozoic) the Panonian Sea. Now is a sedimentary basin where the main rivers are the Danube and the Tisza.

The Danube (Wien, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrad among others) divide Hungary in two parts, thus the east part is the real Panonia, to considerate as weel the north part of Serbia and, of course, the West part of Romania, Crisana and Banat plains. The Tisza river pass through Szeged, before joining the massive Danube river in Serbia.

In the west part of Romania you can see the same architecture as in Hungary, as the result of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Did you realised? Oradea (Nagyvarad), Timisoara (Temesvar) & in Arad (Arad).

To finish, let me told you Oradea is in city-brothership with Debrecen. Cause the past there are too much similarities!!

Every year before entering lent there is a tradition in every catholic communities to have a carnival. This is a big party where everybody wear masks, dance and do different kind of activities (show, theater...) because in the period of lent there is not parties and dance. 

This year we went as reporters to the Arad catholic community carnival. Here you can see some photos of this event:

One of the hearts of Romania... Hunedoara Judetul,

Deva (Diemrich in german, Déva in hungarian): the old capital of Transylvania and center of the gimnastic art, where Nadia Commaneci put the first stone to let now a lot of gils try to be the best in their sport! In ancient times it was a Dacian fortress called Decidava.

Hunedoara (Eisenmarkt in german; Vajdahunyad in hungarian) and their citizens Iancu de Hunedoara (Juan Hunyadi in Spanish) and his son, the greatest king of Hungary Kingdom, Matías Corvino (name in Spanish). What about their castle, in which Vlad Tepes was prisoner for long 7 years.

APA AI, INIMA NAI

A day in the Kindergarden recharge your energies.

There you can see how the childrens play, sing, dance, draw without worries, with a large smile.

Their happiness can't be described, so is better see it for yourselves.

I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as childrens.

It's in catalan. It means: You know everything about Sighisoara. Because I suppose everybody has gone there or hear about it. I would like to go to its dark side, to the city that is not up, around the fortress, to the vulgar buildings and rests of companies, to the not touristic part. And in fact I was there, but I didn't take pictures. Was I just a tourist? No one escapes to that feeling. Enjoy yourself!

An example of the days of the past present, I mean, of the days of future past.

Less than 50 kms from Arad...

In Romania Nadlac (Nadlak in slovakian)

In Hungary, Nagylak.

Are not the same name? similar? It is because before it was the same village, but after the First World War and the Trianon Teatry, Hungarian Empire was divided and decreased, thus was formed the new Romania among other countries or kingdoms that later would form Yugoslavia.

Then, previously the village had a textile mill, but after the war and its divisions, the factory stayed on the decreased Hungary and the houses belonged to Romania. Around the factory pepole began to construct their houses, becoming the zone a village, Nagylak.

Nowadays, Nadlac have around 8000 inhabitants, while Nagylak have about 600, and the factory does not exist anymore.

At least, there is a train from New-Szeged to Nagylak and another from Arad to Nadlac if you want to discover the zone and cross the frontier by walk.

SEE YA ON NEXT CHAPTER

The best soups I´ve ever tasted in my life, not soups, let´s say, consistent soups, the best to fight the cold. As "garnish" you have smântana (a delicious cream like yogourt, can be sweet or sour) and chili peppers to combine with the soup.

Ya know? Ciorba in spanish slang (Chorva) means girlfriend or girl, as Chorvo (in romanian Ciorvo, but it´s the same sound) means guy/boyfriend. Funny for spanish!

Pictures from the Intercultural Afternoon with the children and the volonteers (la fel!) of Paulis

Also called Hermannstadt, is one example of one the Siebenbürgen respected by the past (maybe one example of the opposite are Bistrita). Maybe it's the city that shows how a good location, a solid history and the respect for a minority's heritage, can do for tourism.

Târgu Mures or the hungarian presence in România

On 28 January 2010, we organised an Intercultural Event for the children. We showed them a map of Germany, pictures of Sweden and Germany and informed them about our countries. They coloured the Romanian, Swedish and German flag, we listened to music, danced and painted our faces. We also ate self-made biscuits.

One of the most touristic places, where Vlad Tespes (say: VLAD!!!!) was born (as well his father, Vlad Dracul). For my, the nicest medieval city in Romania.

Schässburg in german, Segesvár in hungarian, Castrum Sex in latin.

Ala!

Brasov (Kronstadt in german, Brassó in hungariann, Corona in latin, Raszów in polish); in the 1950-60 was called the Stalin city. Is one of the 7 "Siebenburger" (seven cities in german). The city hold the title of martyr-city on account of their citizens on the 1989 romanian revolution.

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Bran (Törzburg in german, Törcsvár in hungarian) and the pass of Bran, estrategic place (economical, military) where is avaliable to visit the castle, the named Dracula's castle, where Vlad Tepes hardly wasn't there.

Visiting Cluj suddenly (Kolozsvár in hungarian, Klausenburg in german, Claudiopolis/Castrum Clus in latin)

The city of Iancu de Hunedoara and his son Matias Corvin, the greatest king in Hungarian Kingdom.

Lac din Communa Ghiroc (Község Gyorok in hungarian) Totally frozen

Some pics from the capital, including the old palace where lived Vlad Tepes, VLAD!!!!

Soimos fortress (Solymosvár in hungarian), near Lipova, about 40 kms from Arad (East direction, to Transylvania), you´ll find this hungarian fortress from XIII century, the king Bela IV ordered its construction to avoid the attacks, specially after the mongol invasion during the middle of the XIII century.Thus, the king ordered to construct such that fortresses in Soimos, Dezna and Siria in the Arad "Judet" (zone). Later would come the turkish attacks.

The rest nowadays is history. Enjoy the views from the top of the mountain!!

bucarest things

One of the most popular trditions from Romanian comunas, is singing door to door for all town, their tradicional carods, or colindas the romanian name. You can see diferents kinds of singing groups. Friends groupas, family groups, solists. They can recibe something to drink, eat and money. Traditions in creaciun, christmas day. Making to porcul group. Thanks to mos criacun principal figure of christmas day in romania

you can know diferents landscapes fron paulis, since you computer.Thanks to semlak and cobasint comunities, for this treaking

10 of December

Some volunteers show at the Older Center the typical Christmas customs of their countries, and old people are singing for us a Romanian Christmas carol.

1st of December

A gallery of pictures about Bucuresti, city of huge buildings of concrete, survivor churches with pale paintings, 900 000 cars for around 2 milion of citizens, the ghosts of the Ceaucescu bureaucracy singing shy tunes, beautiful small houses in the ambassys neighborhood, silent dogs that hang around in the night in groups of five and restaurants with luxus atmosphere for 25 ron for the hope.

Bine ati venit!

river mures is  one of the most charismatic places in Paulis, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, but always inspired you any beauty and strong feelings. if you want feel this you must come to Paulis. dreaming in comuna

One teenager of Semlac Vlad, a professionnal dancer, has invited us to assist to his competition of #Danse sportive#, in Arad.

Enjoy the dress!

SPANISH CASSES!!!

Foggy day in comuna Păuliş, but the live go on in this romantic and wet day.

The steps were going on just like this:

1) Some people went to the garden of orthodox church.

2) They were distributed in groups: children and men.

3) The priest indicated when they had to start.

4) Children started singing some carols.

5) Men went on singing some carols. 

6) Men finished singing a carol about Mos Craciun. 

7) Someone dressed as Mos Craciun went out from the orthodox church building and gave presents to the children. 

Here you have the pictures of the three debates of 16 december of 2009.

O zi buna from the volunteers of Covasint.

Here you have the pictures of the Seara Interculturala. Jesus has uploaded an article explaining the content.

Here you have the pictures of the first three debates of the past 9 december. You have more information (contents, participants, estructure) in the articles about them.

O zi buna from the volunteers of Covasint.

Its December… The month that brings the winter holidays. Snow, free days and holidays are the words that describe this month. The pupils from the school of Semlac “a impodobi” the classrooms and the Christmas tree, they had classes of making Christmas Cards and sure they had a Christmas party.   

Este decembrie …Luna ce aduce odata cu ea si sarbatorile de iarna. Zapada , vacanta si sarbatori- acestea sunt cuvintele ce descriu aceasta luna. Elevii de la scoala din Semlac au impodobit clasele si pomul de Craciun, au avut ore pentru a pregati felicitari de Craciun si desigur au avut o petrecere de Craciun. 

Here is our presentation to the community (09/12/09), as week gallery uploaded by us four volunteers of Covasint. The event was a success, considering many circumstances , and above all, that it was our first one.

Our Mentor presented the event, the Major of Covasint made an speech about our activity and our Coordinator said a few words as well. Then, we presented ourselves (in romanian!) and we showed a video of our countries (two general videos about Spain and Republic of Moldova, one of Valencia, another one of Andalucia and the last spanish one of Murcia).

After that, there was a meal with traditional dishes: Ensalá murciana, Tortilla de patatas (with and without onions), Salmorejo and traditional moldavian food.

Thanks for the ones that came and we wait for more people in the next event!

Sabaton Fericite from María del Mar, Juanjo, Elena and Jesús.

“Ce mare esti tu”, I remember the song and Nancy or Lucy, who has shared the gospel in Japan, who sang “How great our God” and Adriana the neighbor who joined in in Romanian. “Ce mare esti tu”. And “This is …., come here…! 

I don’t remember her name. Her face was burned, she taken to the front:

“This is ….! Come here …! Three missionaries.

A powerpoint presentation. “Is that cool, Lucie?” Or Nancy.

And a little girl in between and I forgot her name, her face was burned. “Let’s pray!”

Praise the Lord, there is …. the little girl, her face is burned. Praise the Lord. Ce mare esti tu. “Lord, in your graciousness have mercy with this brave little girl!”

Lord, I forgot her name, her face is burned.

Three American missionaries, I understand their prayers.

“…”probably does not, someone translates;

still.

Taken to the front- See here, Lord, see here one of your lambs, see here

exposed to the fold.

 1st Decembrie - Romania National DayThis day memorializes the unification of Transylvania into 'Greater Romania' in 1918 (formalized in 1920) as well as Bessarabia and BukovinaDecember 1st, 1918 – the National Assembly of all Romanians in Transylvania, Banat and the Hungarian Country convened in Alba Iulia and decreed, the union of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom    The National Assembly of all Romanians in Transylvania, Banat and the Hungarian Country, gathered by its rightful representatives at Alba-Iulia on the 18th of November/1st of December. The National Assembly proclaims above all the inalienable right of the Romanian nation to the whole Banat bordered by the Mures and Tisa rivers and the Danube.La Multi Ani, Romania!

1 Decembrie – ziua nationala a Romaniei

Aceasta zi comemoreaza unirea Transilvaniei cu Tara Romaneasca in 1918 (oficializata in 1920), odata cu unirea Basarabiei si Bucovinei. 1 decembrie, 1918 – Marea Adunare a romanilor din Transilvania, Banat si Ungaria s-au intrunit in Alba Iulia si au decretat unirea Transilvaniei cu Tara Romaneasca. Marea Adunare proclama mai presus de orice dreptul inalienabil al natiunii romane la intregul Banat marginit de raul Mures si raul Tisa si de Dunare. La multi ani, Romania!

Duminică 15.11.2009, la ora 17:00.

Program:

Asamblurile - "Podgoreni" Păuliş - Solişti Loredana Cocian - Florentina Popa - "Podgorenii" juniori Păuliş - Adrian Bic - Formatia de dansuri Păuliş - Solist Aurel Budugan - "Armonia Mureşană" Simbăteni - Solistă Maria Raşca - "Floarea Dorului" conop - Soliste Letiţia Mihuţiu - Claudia Molnar

Some pieces of my life here in this latin country where my life is carrying on so good. The most of the photos will be from Crisana plain, our headquarters here in this beautiful country. Greeting from a spanish guy!!

Close to Semlac city,

the river Mures

Some pics of our street, the orthodox church and other things that caught my attention.

In Covasint's kindergarten there are pupils with 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. In the Halloween celebration, the mothers and grandmothers they were present at the kindergarten to realize activities with the children.

My personal project is about the Romanian food. I spend 6 months eating a lot of good food, so you have some images... Enjoy!!!

Finally we managed! A WEEK OF PHOTO AND VIDEO EXPOSITION has been a real success.

International free food, wonderful photos and a good atmosphere, both at Joy's and at KF.

But it's not finished, you still have the chance to join us at the Irish pub (behind Biserica Rosia) on Monday the 26th.

See you there!

Some pictures of us!

Pictures of the city!

Team in action...

We meet teenagers in different high school to make a school compaign`s

A weekendtrip in this great City!

The Happy Cemetery in Sapanta, Maramures,  is a monument of community life, unique in the world, where the dead are celebrated with humorous poems recalling their lives .

Azi a început noul an şcolar în comuna Şeitin. La ora 11, copiii, cadrele didactice, părinţii şi oficialităţile s-au întălnit în curtea şcolii mari pentru a participa la festivitatea de deschidere a anului şcolar 2009-2010.

Cei mai emoţionaţi au fost copiii din clasa întâia şi cei din clasa a cincea, care au început o nouă etapă din viaţa lor şcolară. Cei mici au purtat uniforme tradiţionale, iar cei din primul an de gimnaziu au ales ceva nou: cămăşi albe cu cravate roşii pentru băieţi şi mov pentru fete.

Nu numai şcolarii au avut emoţii, ci şi părinţi lor.

Conform tradiţiei, s-a oficiat o slujbă, după care au luat cuvântul directorul şcolii şi un reprezentant al poliţiei locale. La final, cei mai mici şcolari au cântat şi au recitat poezii despre începutul şcolii.

Apoi, elevii şi cadrele didactice au mers la clasă unde au împărtăşit impresii despre vacanţa care tocmai s-a terminat.

Toată lumea a fost încântată de revedere şi nerăbdătoare sa înceapă o nouă aventura şcolară!

Our Photo Exibition In Paulish. (Primaria)

New primaria in Paulish

Festival in  the Muntele Gaina

Castel of Deva

Som pics from our life here.

Landscape from Rosia Montana.

o alta viziune de Arad

We were clean main streets of Covasint,with local kids!

Inside off the limets of the ortodoxian church off covasint we can find a entografic museum that can keep alive the memory off old habits and tradicions. All the museum is a result of the ortodoxian priest in colaboration with some local persons that are donating old family values to make possible the improvement off the museum. In the museum we can find on section dedicated to tradicional costumes wich is diveded betwen diferent comunities one exclusive for covasint. We can find another section conected with musicology local and another more connect with religious exclusively for the ortodoxian church. The museum is not finished and another part off the museum is inside off the priest's house however he sais that all the material can be see for all the city. There's the intention to built one videoteca and one audio file.

The itention off keep alive the memory off our anestrals and their way off live is known for long ago. All off us, human beings, we need to fell us identifieds firt with one grup conected with one geografic limit and than we criate culture - one way to make circule one set off material and non-material elements that make us feel together and unit.

The effort to collect those elements are not restricted to responsable and important persons we can find that iniciative in another local persons. In covasint in a spontaneous meeting we discovered one off those cases. One local family that had coming to colect old romenian tradicional instruments and old pieces than can comunicat and keep alive the memory off diferent and older times.

one of the biggest music festival in Romania!

month = july

Una dintre activitaţile programate pentru serviciul nostru de voluntariat este organizarea unui eveniment intercultural. In Şeitin a fost organizat primul eveniment în data de 11 iulie. A fost mult de muncă dar a meritat, suntem foarte mândri de rezultat!

Cutting te woods in Paulish.

Sibiu Teatru festival

Poze din Clij Napoca

Theater Festival

Paulish

Bucuresti

Timisoara

Arrad

Arad

Inter Cultural Evening

Autostop

Futball Activity in the Paulish with children.

Covasant

Paulish

Paulish

Timis And Paulis

Sheitin

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Day at Covasant to make reportages about Gypsy communities.

Zamin  :):)

I.C.E.

Georoc

Inter Cultural Evening

SHEITN

Sheitin

Sheitin

Buchares

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Paulish

Timishoara

Qarden

Our garden

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Free time

L.I.

Intercultural Evening in Romania.

Azerbaijani Embassy  celebrate   Republic day!

Saloua Baha, Jérôme Boulesteix and me, Henar Pérez, are volunteers in the project of the EU, European Voluntariat Service, and we are working in the project “Reporters in Romania”, so we do interviews about the legends, landscape and the life of the people here, and we try to show this moment of their life and the ancient situation here.

Rosia Montana is a village in the north of  Rumania, in the Transilvania’s area. It’s a extraordinary place because it’s situated in the middle of the Apuseni’s mountains, so it’s a green area with a lot of resources and surround by a forest. It’s one of the biggest mines of gold and silver of all Europe, but in this moment the Canadian company who manage the project don’t have licence to continuous the work here, so the inhabitants of Rosia Montana are unemployes. The situation here is very hard for them.

Jérôme Boulesteix, Saloua Baha and me, Henar Pérez, are working in the project "Reporters in Romania", so we do interviews about the legends, landscape and the life of the people here, and we try to show this moment of their life and the ancient situation here.

I got invited for dinner at my mentor's grandparents' house. They are planting their fruits and vegetables in their garden, keeping chickens and a goat and producing their own alcohol - alina's grandparents are self-supporter.

Children festival on the 1:th of June in Timisoara with the school where we work.

First Photo-Exhibition in Şeitin. At the Primaria.

Is it Setin as empty, as it looks?

Cultural shock whiel visiting mentor's grandparents

90 years of Administration in Arad celebrated with the army and the officials