Trip to Romania or breaking the stereotypes

Well, I'm heading the road again in a direction of Denmark this time and while I'm waiting for my plane at the airport, I decided to share some memories about our trip to Romania with Lali September this year.

First of all, I'd like to say that my opinion about this country turned upside down and what I saw was the opposite of what I expected. You see, everyone was really worried when we said we wanna go to Romania. People in Bulgaria were worried because we said we're travelling by train, my parents were worried because we are two girls going to the heart of the gipsy country. So, there was only one reason to worry actually, can you guess which one? :)

Saturdays

When having a busy life, no matter what it is busy with - work or studies, work AND studies or just parites, parties, parties, you need to be having a day-off for yourself once in a while. For me this day off often comes to Saturday. I've been trying to study or work on Saturdays for a lot of times, but it never goes well.


Having a day-off for yourself means you work hard all the other days of the week, if you don't do anything every day, there's no point in having a rest at all. And I can't say that Saturday is my favorite day of the week, I just don't have any energy to do anything, so staying home and recharging the batteries goes well. 


I'm not saying I'm the busiest person in the world, but even if you're not, having a day for yourself is what makes you full of energy the other 6 days. Do you have your own day or how do you usually "recharge your batteries"? 

Evolution and survival

Life in a big city differs a lot from the one in a small town. Although the biggest city I've ever really lived in is Riga with its 1 million, I've also lived in Kristianstad with its 35 000, so I can see the difference.
If you want to survive in a big city, you need to be flexible, sporty and evolution-oriented.

For instance today I was using 4 languages during the day. Latvian in the university and at home with my roommates, Russian with my friends and parents, English with my friends and articles I was writing, German while watching the movie in the cinema (with English subtitles, luckily). I will not even mention what kind of mix it causes inside my head. As I mentioned, you need to be flexible.
When you live in a big city, you are also always in a rush. Going somewhere takes a lot of time, traffic jams and public transport are the obstacles difficult to overcome. That's why my favourite sport is running after the bus. It's when you see the bus waiting at the traffic lishts and you have something like 1 second to count the possibility of you getting into that bus 2 blocks away. No rules, no judjes, just you and the bus. Today I had the traffic lights and an underground road crossing on my way, but luckily I made it, since otherwise waiting for a bus late in the centre of Riga is not the most pleasant time.

You need to be evolution-oriented to be able to change yourself by constantly improving your skills and qualities. Luckily being a student helps a lot in that.

They say people with higher education are more likely to survive not because of the knowledge they got in the university (you're not the only one who doesn't remember anything one hour after the exam), but because of what they went through. People who experienced living in the student dorms for instance can sleep in any conditions - in a light noisy room with sitting on the chair. They can do maximum in a really limited time (course work written in 1 night? no problem) and they have perfect communication skills (all these professors with all the rules and different politics make you think of a different behaviour on different lectudes, don't they?).

As a conclusion, I would say that the people with the higher education living in the world's biggest cities are much more likely to survive. That's the new evolution.