Everything found its beginning friday evening in the Villa in Arad on Dina's birthday party. The Villa is wellknown for its nightly celebrations but when it's also a party of Dina then you can be sure that it will become a big thing with a lot of people, music, drinking stuff and maybe police. The same this time...
The problem this time was that everybody had to be at the trainstation in Arad at 7.30. After two hours of sleeping half of us arrived very tired and partly still drunk but on time at the station to make the journey to Timisoara for a big ecological action. Nobody knew more details. After breakfast at Mc'Donalds and a sightseeing-tour with the tram we arrived one hour to late at the park which we should clean. And here was the next problem: the park was absolutely clean! There were a lot of other volunteers who already cleaned everything. After one hour almost hopeless searching for paper, glass, garbage and plastic we started - very depressed but now which the knowledge how to start such a (hopefully more senseful) cleaning-action in Arad - our way back home. And then our train didn't go! But finally everybody of us arrived happy in Arad. When Egija, Olwin and me came to Covasint we prepared ourselves for the wedding, but to my shame I have to admit that I was so tired that I missed the most interesting part of it and went to bed! Not Egija!
Next morning I had to get up at 6.45 to catch the tram to Arad and Egija wanted to join me, but I found a paper in front of my bed with following content: "RUTH, DON'T WAKE ME UP, I WANT TO SLEEP, HAVE A NICE DAY, EGIJA"! Thank you, my dear!
First we had some Blabla about our problemes, expectations and improvements about our communities but then something really concrete followed: A visit of the Rroma community in the near of Lunca Muresului. Kaie's pictures give a good impression of how it looks there. Richness and poverty are so close to each other! Humans can get used to so many things and they influence his character, his way of thinking and acting. What I saw was not new for me but I can't imagine how they think, feel and live. They were so happy about that we took pictures with them, that we hugged and kissed them, that David was going by bike with them, that we played games with them. We were invited by a older Rroma man for music and drinks and spent some hours with them. They are so extrem in their behaviour like their living circumstances!
Monday followed a very impressive presentation about every of our communities. I didn't know so many things about them until this moment. And Tuesday was the big day for our february-group because we were canoeing on the Mures! Four hours in the nature with a lot of fun and no accident! I experienced again how important it is for me to spend a lot of time outside in the nature!
After dinner an old thing came up again: saying Good bye! To a wonderful peaceful place in the forest and many people I became fond of! This is what I connect with Lunca Muresului: It's my first home in Romania and a place where I have to say Good bye! I'm here for 3 1/2 months now and I learned that I can't be good friend with everybody! But the interpersonal relations are so various! There are not so many people which are very important for me because that takes a long long time.
We are so many people from so many different countries and cultures with different backgrounds and lifestories and that's why everybody is so different. But we're here all together and we're living and working together and it depends on our choice if we let become our path of life to one and if we try to understand each other! Six months is not much for something like this but when we live intensive and natural then we can experience something very deep with each other. I think, everything is about exchange! The whole life is about this topic, but in our case it's special clear! It's like a different life, because we don't see each other in our used circumstances, not with our families and friends at home. We behave and think in some things in a different way here! But it's a chance to learn things about myself and others and maybe we become so good friends that we will experience each other in our homeplaces!
WE JUST HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH IT!
