Some day I’ll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemondrops Away above the chimney tops That’s where you’ll find me Grand Bazaar - The...
With Marion in two dresses I bought on the market for less than 1 Euro - The pink one is more for fun, I dont think I will haev the occasion to wear it very soon...Our back yard right now
6 pieces of clotes for less than 5 Euros, thats what I call some great second hand shopping. The only probe is to fit it all in my backpack for the interail trip back home to Sweden... Se resolve
The 6th to 13th of April I had my mother and my sister Ylva visiting me here in Romania. We ate Mamaliga and sopa de galuste in our Dabuleni kitchen, went to a market in Sibiu and ate hotel breakfast...
Today we had 30 about degrees outside, the trees are blossoming and Ive got a really sexy sun burn from spending some hours ouside. Not bad, not bad at all. Team Dabuleni, Crishofer, Mario...
After coming back from Sweden last week we went on another training in Predeal, which is a ski resort in the mountains. The traing was not much to chear about but it was nice to see the people ...
So, I know I havent updated the blogg for over a month... But Ive done so many things that I just couldnt find the time. But finally here are some pictures from when Marion and I hitch hiked to Sofia...
So now we have over forty baby chickens on our yard. They dont have a mother so our host family built them a nice place to be warm and safe. I got to hold the chickens and of course they were super c...
This week we had decided to spend some time in another school in our community known as "School number 3". There they also have a kindergarden so of course we took the chance to spend some ti...
Last week it was Valentines Day, but because of the very cold weather and all the snow the school was closed... We didnt mind but celebrated our love the day after, with a heart full of nice messages...
Right now we are planning Global Village in our community (originally it was started last year by the former volunteers), an activity about raising cultural awearness and a chance for every volunteer...
We challanged the weather and went 100 km to Calafat to celebrate Pilars birthday yesterday. I belive the pictures can speak for themselves. Carneval.And I started practise my turkish for May. M...
Starting from December we have a social campaign in our community where we visit the azil in a neighboring village called Bechet. Every month during the rest of our project we will visit the patients...
So last week winter struck Romania, and it struck us hard. Ive experienced lower temperatures than -27 before, but never have I worn seven sweathers inside the school or showered in 6 degrees until n...
This Wednesday Marion and I hitch-hiked to Arad and Timisoara. We started a bit outside Targu Jiu and four cars, 7 hours and about 300 km later we were in Arad, a city close to the Hungar...
This Thursday we had an small International Evening (food from all our contries) and Secret Santa (exchange of Christmas presents) at Lucias house. It was really nice and everybody got some nice...
Tuesday, first dance lesson (x3), salsa
After Christmas I brought some Christmas presents for my host family and without doubts this appel cutter was the best present. My host father Aurel loved it, in fact he ate two apples right a ...
The Club for ExplorersLast week we had a lot of free time since the sudent still had holiday so we took the oppertunity to walk around in Dabuleni. This building is located a bit outside of Dab...
So since one week Im back in Romania. I cant really say that it felt like coming home, but it felt normal and good, even thought I will miss the people from home even more now... Anyway I decided to ...
We started the night with some wine in the kitchen, and found a new friend Kurt that "hängde med" the whole night Lizette and Viveca soon joined in, they brought cheeseballs and kiiwi s...
i know this blogg is supposed to be about my experiences in Romania, but since I also have some non-swedish readers I thought it could be nice to post some pictures from Christmas in Sweden.Making gi...
This last week before the Christmas Holiday we made a social campaign together with the school and the local hospital of Dabuleni. The idea was to spread some joy to the people who are staying at the...
This Monday we celebrated Intentional&nb sp;Volunteer Day here in Dabuleni together with volunteers here from Dolj,some from Gorj and a lot of enthusiastic students. For us volunteers i...
Today is Romanias National Day. We have the day of and I celebrate by studding for my seminar and by watching the documentary "The Complete History of My Sexual Failures" ...
Last week we were in in a city called Predal for some "on-arrival training". Basically the National Agency of Romania gathered all the new volunteers in Romania, put us in a hotel and taught ...
Last week we finally begun our official Romanian classes, and I think its going pretty good! We already know the basics since we been practicing with the host family, and now we are focusin...
Yesterday was the International Day of Tolerance.Tolerance can sometimes be a bit hard to understand, but for us it means that you dont have to approve of what other people are doing, but y...
I havent updated for a while because Ive been busy, but also because Ive been sick. Last Wednesday I got some strange stomach pain s but I didnt worry to much, I figured it wa...
Heres some pictures to summarize the Halloween Party!Justine, Marina and BrittaSome of the girls from 10th gradeTo the right is the winner Alex who dressed up as a Rroma womanOur mentors Lucia & ...
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