Rainbow Child

This moody weather doesn’t inspire me at all. I look at my bike, I long to go and read in the park and as I’m heading towards the door it starts raining cats and dogs. Every bloody day! Then of course the sun shines like nothing has happened but it’s too late: my mood is ruined, the roads are wet, the earth is full of water, there’s nothing to do than to stay in.

And that’s what I’ve been doing since I came back to Bucharest. For almost a week now I’ve been going out only to buy groceries and only once I went to the city centre. I met a high school colleague who was here for an interview. We had a nice chit-chat and caught up on what has been going on in our lives but I have to admit I don’t understand her and others like her. She didn’t say it out loud but you could see how helpless she was here. She was afraid of getting lost, she gave me the money and I bought the metro card for her!!!, you get the picture. And it was the first time she had traveled by herself with the train. Come on! Ugh, I don’t understand people who are that scared of this big world, people who prefer to stay at home where everything is safe and nice.

Anyways, my days are so bloody boring that I’ve started playing old DOS games. I read a bit, I sleep, I cook and that’s about all. In the evening we watch Friends and Seinfeld and then we sleep some more. I can hardly wait to go to Athens to feel like a tourist again and walk everywhere and take hundreds of pictures daily. I have no idea how housewives don’t feel like killing themselves from all this boredom…

First of all, my Astro lamp is up and running. In the beginning I was a bit scared when I saw I had to assemble it by myself but I’m proud to say that I did a great job hence the “up and running” part. The tricky thing was the lampshade but with a little help from my bf we managed to put all the pieces together. Now our nights are more starry – it’s a real pleasure to look at the walls

And apart from staying indoors I did a bit of socializing this weekend and had a great time with my friends. oompa‘s days were ‘lemonade Friday’ and ‘film Sunday’. Too bad that the Romanian film directors are obsessed with life in communism but, hey, as long as the films make me laugh I’m OK with that

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Again, I had to go to the other side of the city just to pick up an international package. It’s incredible how stupid the Romanian post services are (the state-owned ones). One hour and a half, 12 tram stations and 2 bus stops for one package! Well, OK, it was from outside the UE, but still… I’m pretty sure that these trips to the post office will be the death of me…

At least I had a great time afterwards. I met up with Raul and we had lunch in the garden at Cărtureşti. Oh, the food was delicious! I’m enjoying restaurant food as long as I still have money, cause I’ve already bought 5 books (one it’s on its way) and the book fair is coming, so it’s quite predictable that I’ll be broke by the middle of the month. But, hey, I’m just a student, now is the time to be penniless 

I also had a great evening out with Hanna and her parents. I’m always amazed when I meet people like that which are old enough to be my grandparents but are more young at heart and more open-minded than most of the people from my generation. I hope I’ll be as full of life and nice as they are when I’m their age.

I’ve been wanting to explore the area at Piaţa Unirii for a long long time but I’ve never had the opportunity until now. We woke up really early this morning and around 9 o’clock we were on our way. That neighbourhood is amazing! Too bad it’s mainly inhabited by poor people and they don’t have the money to repair the houses. But it has such a big potential!

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