Limba română

Coming here one of my main goals was to learn the Romanian language. Not that it would be extremely useful in my future life, but I am of the mind that every language is a virtue, besides, speaking the local language would make the life here so much easier.
Fast forward in time - 2,5 months have passed, my language is a lot better than in the beginning (it's not hard to better than the level 0.0), but the better shows more in understanding than speaking the language. It's interesting to see the development in simple everyday situations.

Our neighbourhood is filled with traders who sell literary everything on the streets: from toilet paper to bananas. My favourites are the singing-banana-sellers. In the beginning I didn't understand anything what they said, I didn't even understand that they were selling bananas. Honestly, in my mind they were just crazy-people.

On the next day I understood bananas. Shouldn't have been such a difficult word to distinguish, but the sound of the Romanian language was so unfamiliar to me that really, I didn't get anything.

A few days later I heard cinci lei, because, you know, it's everywhere. Beggars ask you for five lei and you just hear the phrase every day,

After getting accustomed to the numbers I already understood quite a lot of what the banana sellers said: Sase blablabla bananas cinci lei.

I was only missing one word from this puzzle and it didn't take much to get it: dulce!

 Sase dulce bananas cinci lei!  (Six sweet bananas five lei!)
 

SPANISH NIGHT!!

The last 6th of September we celebrated the first intercultural night, and was the Spanish Night!

I showed some videos about Spain and Valencia (my region!), and we eat some allioli (a garlic sauce), jamón serrano (Spanish ham) and of course, we drank the authentic homemade sangria!

Here I leave the vídeos about my coutry, so you can discover a little bit my country and region and the character of the Spanish people!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhVnai16MQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzUdMl4wnJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zi6LW8djk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO4blTHCGCA
(The last video is about las fallas, the biggest festival in valencia!)

And finally, thanks to all the people who came to the party, was really fun, and I was very happy to share with all of you the culture of my country, MULTUMESC!

Carles S.

We had a great time together!!! :)

         We have been invited to the activities and it was organized by our Kurdish  EVS volunteers  friends hosting organisation . We made  Kurdish food for the activity ; Ekrem made the Cigkofte(with a lot of spicy) and I made Babakanuc  also shepherd salad :) Everyone liked our food :) Spanish friends made food , I tasted a very nice meal but I forget the food name just I remmember the Spanish omelet :) We did a barbecue with chicken and pork , then we were listened to Kurdish  musics :) They asked lets play Semmame!!!  It was a shock for me . Because the dance our traditional danceand I asked myself  where did they know Semmame???  My Kurdish friends told me : We taught them at the on arrival training course. Thats way they knew the dance. And then I understood the semmame is going to be an international dance :) We had so much fun :) Thanks for everything :)))

Semmame!!! :)

Cig kofte :)

We played Kurdish dance (delilo).