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11 avril 2008

Micul Paris!

Dear Everyone, Today, Rosie and I went for a wonderful walk, a Nicole Tour (the first of many, I have the distinct feeling!), planned by Nicole herself in faraway Connecticut, USA. I received a fabulously detailed e-mail yesterday with an itinerary of...

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10 avril 2008

Magdalena Radulescu

Dear Everybody With nothing else to do coz I still feel like varza, (Aura called to see if I wanted to pop round and keep her company in str. Drobeta while she finished packing up her old office, but even that I couldn't manage - pathetic!) I've been...

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10 avril 2008

Some music for you

During our time in Sibiu, Flori wrote a horde of Roumanian musicians on Rosie's train ticket so I could go and discover them on Youtubes. As I'm staying home today, it's the perfect opportunity. I wanted to share some real gems with you. The first Romica...

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7 avril 2008

Weekend in Sibiu

Dear Everyone, I've just come back from the most wonderful long weekend in Sibiu with Flori and her Gaby, staying with her Uncle Ilie and her parents repectively. Such kindness and generosity goes straight to the heart and this evening I'm feeling introspective,...

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29 mars 2008

Marin Sorescu

Dear Everyone, I've just discovered the poet Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) and his translated book of poetry 'Hands Behind My Back'. Here's one for you that hit my right between the eyes. GETTING USED TO YOUR NAME After you've learned to walk,Tell one thing...

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27 mars 2008

Hope

Why Bucharest for the 2008 Nato Summit??? I just hope it will bring something profitable to this, the dear country of my heart. Interviewing for placement testing at BC today, I asked every potential student what they thought about the forthcoming event....

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18 mars 2008

Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition

Dear Everyone, Thanks to Lucia, I'm listening to the Arthur Rubinstein (pictured left) Piano Competition live on internet (I'm such a 'varza' that she had to lead me through the site step by step and even then it took ages to download what I was meant...

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12 mars 2008

Sleepless in Bucharest

Just spent a completely sleepless night. D'you know why? Coz I realised that 3 days ago, I've been here 7 months. That means I have only 6 months to go. That means that the time I have left is less than the time I've actually been here. That means I'm...

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5 mars 2008

Art Jazz Club

Dear Everybody I've just got back from the most wonderful evening at the Art Jazz Club tucked behind the Orizont Art Gallery in B-dul N. Bâlcescu, where one of Flori's ex-students is lead singer in a marvellous band of a strange mixture of Celtic and...

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25 février 2008

Queen Marie of Rumania

Hi Everyone, My friend Mary sent me the link that you will find on the right of this page: Queen Marie - My Country, Rumania. It's a gorgeous site and I'm thrilled to have read it. At last, I have found a text, written by a fellow compatriot, who loved...

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15 février 2008

Snow again!

Dear All, Guess what? Snow is falling by the bucket load outside. This morning it was springtime, and in just one day we're catapulted back to winter again. 15cm of white powdery stuff already, apparently, but I didn't stop long enough to measure it....

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24 janvier 2008

A Dacian's Prayer by Eminescu

A little culture for you - one of Eminescu's glorious poems translated beautifully, at last, into English - Bravo, Dle. Popescu! A DACIAN'S PRAYER -Eminescu- When death did not exist, nor yet eternity, Before the seed of life had first set living free,...

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3 janvier 2008

Snooooooooooooow!!!

Dear Everyone, Oh my Looooooooooooord! Woke up this morning to find snow half way up the window! Never seen anything like it! Had to wait for Mr. Dulcescu to come and dig me out of my cave so I could go to the supermarket! Bucharest is silent underneath...

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2 janvier 2008

Happy New Year!

Dear Everyone, I hope you all had a lovely end of the old year and a joyful start to the new. My 2007 ended beautifully with Lidia, Manny, Nick, Rodica and Lidia's mum in Brasov. I've never liked New Year as there are so many loved and lost I miss at...

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28 décembre 2007

Christmas with Mariana, the Winter Festival and back to Bucharest

Wow! What an incredible Christmas it's been! It all began with a night train to Cluj. After a student breakfast of coffee, bread and nutella, we hit the road and made it to Sighet in four and a half hours. Mariana was waiting with a huge lunch (the shape...

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22 décembre 2007

Happy Christmas!

Dear Everyone, Well, this is it. 'Deck the halls with boughs of holly, falalalalaaaaaaa lalalala!...' etc... I leave in an hour and will be back in Bucharest on Thursday 28th December all being well. It's been a hectic week despite no work, and has gone...

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10 décembre 2007

Gradinitsa

May I present Gradinitsa (Kindergarten in Romanian), the site for our 'partner' association also based in France and here in Romania, managed by Lidia Bloc - an incredible lady full of energy, courage and determination. Gradinitsa is active at the creche...

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20 novembre 2007

Romanian Songs

Hi Everyone, Since I arrived in Romania on August 10th, it hasn't just been classical, opera and jazz for me - ooooooh no! Here's some other joys for you to check out for yourselves, just in case you mistakenly presumed that all Romanian music had a gypsy...

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18 novembre 2007

Blues and Jazz in Bucharest

Hi Everyone, I just came back from a great concert at the Sala Palatului with Flori. The first half was A.G. Weinberger, a Romanian now living in USA. Unremarkable blues though the public loved it. Lots of singing and dancing, shouting and general 'high...

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8 septembre 2007

Pinchus Zuckerman

Dear Musicians and Fans Be jealous NOOOOOW!! I just saw Pinchus Zuckerman in a trio (strange trio coz 5 people, but I never was good at sums) and he was as always - marvellous, wonderful and fabulous and any other adjectives you can think of! Rarararara!!...

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