EVS Express

A few moments of work in forest, Natural park Lunca Muresului. Aim of our work is to make model of Mures river and area which is around this river, with all villages and forests. Scale 1:30000.

We started on 10 of march, day by day we are working there. In the begining we were 10 people, now about 5-6. Our work consist of cleaning area from small trees, bushes, digging riverbed, work on level of banks of the river, digging pond for water pump.

Next steps:

making path on both sides of "river" for visitors;

puttingand sand, membrane and then stones in riverbed and pond;

putting pipe for pump, for circuliation of water;

planting some plants and trees to make area more beautiful..

Ceala forest is a flat floodplain forest, which begins right there, where Alfa district's house blocks end. There are faintly distinguishable bicycle trails, so I joined Eve and Magda to explore this area, which is so nicely green in this season of the year.

Do you sometimes feel when travelling around in Romania, like never left from Arad?

Me, Magda and Sabine decided to visit Sibiu once more and besides beautiful city we also visited an open air museum with old village houses from all over Romania. If you have the chance to visit that, I recommend strongly..

Neptun Swimming Place (Neptun is a Roman god of the sea), in Romanian known as "Strandul Neptun", is amusement area in Arad. It's the most popular place in the city during summertime, with swimming pools, terraces, pubs, beer gardens, clubs. In wintertime.. not so much :P

On 6th of February there was an intercultural evening in Semlac and some of us decided to go. Unfortunately we missed the train and tried to hitchike instead...weather was very bad, raining a lot...but anyway, volunteers are not so easily intimitated by bad weather. On our way we saw lot of interesting things - a lot of sheep crossing the road, met people, who were not afraid to take 3 of us in the car where already 3 people were, got picked up by a bus on a country road where there were no cars at all. And when we asked from the bus driver: cat costa?(what does it cost), he answered: nimic (nothing). So, finally when we got there, totally wet, took the place closest to the oven and enjoyed the show...and it was a very interesting show with a lot of different romanian dances, starting from the youngest ones, finishing with everybody dancing the famous penguine dance. Although it was called intercultural evening, it was mostly about Romanian culture, but we were really happy to enjoy all of that. And even more, after all the dances we got to taste a lot of romanian national dishes, tables were brought out and food was carried to the table.

Our way back was with the train...almost missed that one also, after eating had to run...but we made it:)

Stop, take a seat, at least for the moment.. Try to listen, to hear, to feel the place which surounding you, the silence.. Only then you can hear that your own minds, thoughts, which usually you are hidding  from others, from yourself, in the corners of your soul.. Life is short, you dont have a lot time to understand, to feel, to be yourself.. Take chance, have change..

predeal. moment of the training.

I was 20 minutes late to Romanian lesson, because on my way to city I had to stop all the time to take pictures of fog.

Here you have a selection of our best moments in the kitchen so far,.....

one month has gone away

Its just my first impression about Romania, some random photos.

Four bridges of Arad, city on the shores of Mureş river.

I was lucky enough to go home to Estonia for christmas time. Biiiig change of temperature, because it was -20 degrees!!! And a lot of lot of snow. We have a sheep farm with 800 sheep and with that cold we had to move them into a barn because some of them were already totally freezed. I took some pictures of chasing sheep:)

Also I visited the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, where I lived for 8 years. There was a christmas market in the old town and ice skating place with nice music. I also went to ski with my mother, cross-country skiing, that I´ve been doing since childhood with my family and that is really popular in Estonia. Don´t have any mountains, you know...