Little Kurdistan in Romania

In the high season of cold and illness our Kurdish volunteers Yusuf and Ekrem decided to organise a Kurdish night to get our thoughts away from the almost winter-like weather in Bucharest. We invited friends from other organisations and the party could start!

The table full of food showed the Kurdish hospitality very well: cigköfte, icliköfte, lahmacun and baklava. All either very spicy or very sweet, nevertheless VERY tasty. Besides the good food they also managed to create a nice atmosphere with traditional dances and Ekrem suprised us with some romantic and tragic songs. 

We discovered their culture which was totally unknown to me when I first came to Romania. Now, living together with two great kurdish guys I have realised, that Kurdistan is not just a rebellious region in the Middle-East. Kurds have very strong national identity (I realised that when I referd to Ekrem and Yusuf as turks in the beginning, never making that mistake again), difficult history, vivid culture and an extremely interesting language which is nothing like the Turkish.

Probably the most important thing I have learnt in my EVS is not to prejudice anything or anybody. If Kurds are mentioned in the Estonian media, for example, the article almost certainly also includes words like "war" or "terrorist". What they don't know is that people from that "extremely dangerous" place can be one of the nicest, friendliest and the most helpful you have ever met. And sure, they love their people and region.

ESTONIAN INTERCULTURAL NIGHT

                                                         Estonian Night
İt was great time with my friends in our hosting organization (C.A.D.D.R.U) for Estonian night , because we have been inside a nice atmosphere with theirs culture , I mean like music presentation and sweet foods also history of Estonia about soviet union how they got their own freedom it's just the success of brave People !!! It's amazing with a few people , and that caller big success of freedom in my mind. . .

I want to write about theirs delicious food we eaten the foods Kama ; it's a drink , they are normally drinking in the morning with breakfast : it's was good , for example I liked it and kaerahelbeküpsised ; it is kind of cookie and very strong because if you want to eat you should broke your tooth while she (Eliise ) cooked it, she was used some materials like wheat , sugar and eggs but the taste was good and finally Kartulisalat : I love it normally its with pork but Eliise made it without pork for us and I helped her while she was making it , I eaten a lot salad

 I spend great time with cool people :)))) thank you so much "Eliise" because we knew what is the Estonia, history of Estonia, culture of Estonia

Joseph Thuis (Yusuf Akyil)...