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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

ROMANIA | Friday, 4 January 2013 | Views [203] | View Larger Image

The curiosity of discovering how much importance is given to soccer in Moldavia, led me to the stadium in Iaşi to see the match of Iaşi vs Bacau. I sincerely didn't pay much attention to the game but focused on the expression of disappointment or joy of the audience. A singular tradition is to eat sunflower seeds and to throw their shells on the floor while watching the game. This scene was taken during the definitive goal by the Iaşi team.

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A special encounter near the monastery in Voroneṭ, the most interesting and touching of all my travel. A 90-year-old man who still works as a farmer. He admitted that it has been a miracle for him to come back home alive after taking part in the Second World War. All wrinkles emphasizing his hard life disappeared in the vivid light of his eyes. He kept smoking and smiling willing to speak about his family and to ask information about where I come from. At the end of our conversation he wisely expressed his gratitude to life and confessed that he is a happy man.

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During the travel from Durău to Iaşi, the driver needed a break and so he stopped at Bicaz lake for half an hour. I decided to have a walk and see if I could meet someone in this place surrounded by high pines. I saw a carpenter and talked to him using the very few Romanian words that I learnt during my travel. It was a surprise when that middle-aged man replied to me in Italian. After a nice conversation I accepted to pay for a trip on the lake. However before going on board he explained me that, unfortunately, a big factory discharges the industrial waste into the lake. He called his friend who works as a taxi-boat driver for the local and there I met the young man that you see in the photo. After having faced the disappointing big amount of garbage, the young man invited me inside the cabin since I was freezing. Despite the difficult communication since he spoke only Romanian, he explained me that the boat is his only house. He opened the door behind him and showed me his tiny room with a little bed and few objects. He then told me that he doesn't want to leave the lake of Bicaz and that he is happy with his life.

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