Hi
At the moment a lot of my friends are going back to their homecountry. It makes it all a bit sad but everybody wants to spend their last nights partying so the last week we have spend almost every night in the city. The fact the people are leaving also means that new volenteers are arriving. Both my flatmates are leaving the day tomorrow and to new volenteers will move in. It will be two girls from Netherland and Japan. It's gonna be very exciting and I really hope they are nice.
Lately everbody has been celebrating because of the independence of Moldova. Because of that the center where i work has been closed since thursday. This friday (27th of august) was the independece day and there was a big concert with Zdob Si Zdub on str. Stefan cel Mare which is the mainstreet here in Chisinau. Zdob Si Zdub is were popular here in Moldova and after having seen their concert I know why. They where so cool and everybody had a good time.
Before the concert we where at a lake outside Chisinau. We know a guy from a Yacht-club so we could get in there for free. The guy called Alex is in the world-elite of sailing and owned some boats so most af the day we where just sailing around enjoying ourselves. Alex where talking a lot to and other guy on another ship with turned out to be a famous actor (famous in Moldova). It was pretty fun being in the rich peoples place. I don't know why they let us in because the money ADVIT pays us doesn't make us rich but maybe it's just because most of us are from rich countries.
Except the last days where the center has been closed I have actually been working 1-2 hours a day. The first weeks there were nothing to do but lately there has been some kids so we have played a lot of UNO, tabletennis and painted the walls. I'm working with a French girl know called Aurelia. Her english isn't that good but we understand each other (most of the time) and she is nice. The girl who works there says that there will be even work to do in september, so thats gonna be interesting.
Thats all for now i guess.
Don't worry be happy!
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Weekend!
Ohay!
I am trying to update the blog every monday so I still remember the weekend but I've been so busy lately and now it's not even tuesday anymore. Anyway - Being busy is a good thing, especially if you are busy doing the things I've done this weekend. Saturday six of us rented a minibus and went to the countryside. First we visited the previous home of a famous moldovian writer. The place was nice but the guide was borring. Most of the time he pointing at some of his things and told us: "this is he's chair, this is he's desk and so on." After that we went to an old city with original moldovian houses. It was a very nice place with a fortrees and a church on top of the hill. Later we went to a river with some old baths or something. I didn't really found out because me and Martyn where busy crossing the river.
At the end of the day we went to a lake and made a barbeque. Mariana had brought some of her fathers wine which tasted very good. After the barbeque we went back to Chisinau and had some Chisinau's ;)
Sunday I went to play badminton with my coach Maxim. It was and outdoor place in a forrest which prevented the wind from destroying the game but it was still very difficult for me to play outside. We played about 3 hours and then it became to dark.
Maxim has turned out to be a really good coach. First time i played against him he spend a lot of time asking me how i make the stokes and tried to copy me which made me think that he couldn't teach me much, but he has proved me wrong. He smashes very, very hard and I thought I new how to pick up smashes but I couldn't pick his smashes up. Then he told me how to do and suddently I could. After training with him I always leaves with two feelings. The feeling that there is still a long way to go before I can beat him and the feeling that I really improved a lot during the training.
Monday I first went to the office to pick up some post and then to work. After work I went home and cleaned up the flat so we could have a party in the evening, celebrating that we were able to spend sunday without having a party. We where about 15 people, and had a good time. Some said they left about 3 but im not sure...
Tuesday I had to wake up early (11.30) and to Buiucani and play badminton. Later with the feeling of having inproved a lot, I rushed to work back in Ciocanna. After work I rushed back to Buiucani to Marianas place (Atushi's mentor) where we all cooked some national dishes. I made meetballs with onion and sauce (hakkebøffer). Atushi made some japanese soup, Mariana had made some potatoes, salat and boarsh, and Martyn and Jade made cookies. It was all ver nice :)
That was pretty mush what I have been doing lately.
Hope you all enjoy yourselves whereever you are.
See you some day!
Nikolaj
I am trying to update the blog every monday so I still remember the weekend but I've been so busy lately and now it's not even tuesday anymore. Anyway - Being busy is a good thing, especially if you are busy doing the things I've done this weekend. Saturday six of us rented a minibus and went to the countryside. First we visited the previous home of a famous moldovian writer. The place was nice but the guide was borring. Most of the time he pointing at some of his things and told us: "this is he's chair, this is he's desk and so on." After that we went to an old city with original moldovian houses. It was a very nice place with a fortrees and a church on top of the hill. Later we went to a river with some old baths or something. I didn't really found out because me and Martyn where busy crossing the river.
At the end of the day we went to a lake and made a barbeque. Mariana had brought some of her fathers wine which tasted very good. After the barbeque we went back to Chisinau and had some Chisinau's ;)
Sunday I went to play badminton with my coach Maxim. It was and outdoor place in a forrest which prevented the wind from destroying the game but it was still very difficult for me to play outside. We played about 3 hours and then it became to dark.
Maxim has turned out to be a really good coach. First time i played against him he spend a lot of time asking me how i make the stokes and tried to copy me which made me think that he couldn't teach me much, but he has proved me wrong. He smashes very, very hard and I thought I new how to pick up smashes but I couldn't pick his smashes up. Then he told me how to do and suddently I could. After training with him I always leaves with two feelings. The feeling that there is still a long way to go before I can beat him and the feeling that I really improved a lot during the training.
Monday I first went to the office to pick up some post and then to work. After work I went home and cleaned up the flat so we could have a party in the evening, celebrating that we were able to spend sunday without having a party. We where about 15 people, and had a good time. Some said they left about 3 but im not sure...
Tuesday I had to wake up early (11.30) and to Buiucani and play badminton. Later with the feeling of having inproved a lot, I rushed to work back in Ciocanna. After work I rushed back to Buiucani to Marianas place (Atushi's mentor) where we all cooked some national dishes. I made meetballs with onion and sauce (hakkebøffer). Atushi made some japanese soup, Mariana had made some potatoes, salat and boarsh, and Martyn and Jade made cookies. It was all ver nice :)
That was pretty mush what I have been doing lately.
Hope you all enjoy yourselves whereever you are.
See you some day!
Nikolaj
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
πbBIB (Lviv/Lvov)
Hey there
This weekend I've been to Lviv to visit some polish girls that Marta and Ola knew.
Ola had bourght a ticket for me so I just showed up at the bus station at half past six this friday afternoon. Lviv is in Ukraine which is the neighbour country. I had been told that we where suppose to drive the hole night to get there but I didn't new what it was like to sit in a bus for 16 loooong hours. Lviv has been polish once and is located close to the polich border. It's about 600 km. from Chisinau in a direct line so if we had been in Germany it would proberbly take about 5 hours to get there.
I'll try to describe the journey. I slept the first two hours but after that I spend 4 hours staring on the bumpy moldovian road. Then we got to the border and Marta said that it would take hours to get accros it. She thought she has joking but she wasn't. There where no queue but the ukranian borderguards where taking their job serious. First a guy collected all our passports and left. About half an hour later he returned and we all had to find our own passport. Then we where just waiting half an hour for some reason and then an other guy collected all our passports once more... After almost two hours we could finally cross the border.
After that I managed to fall asleep again but I constantly woke up because we had to pick up some hitch-hikers. When we finaly arrived in Lviv we all just wanted to sleep.
πbBIB as it is called in ukranian was a very beautiful city. Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteri after 6 pictures :/
Despite the lack of sleep and the dead camera we had some very good days in Lviv. Saturday we where walking around the streets looking at the city. After that we went home and had an hour of sleep before we went to a resturant. They are very good at cooking in Lviv and it was still quite cheap on resturants so we went to a resturant for all our meals. In the evening we bought some vodka and went out in the ukranian night. We couldn't help buying some vodka because we where to wales people a dane and a lot of polish people who wanted to drink vodka :)
That night i didn't sleep very well. It might be because of the fact that we where 5 or 6 people sharing a kingsize bed. Next day I was tired and had a terrible headache but I was forced by the others to go to a cemetary. It was huge with big monumets as gravestones. The polish girls found it very interesting because a lot of famous polish people where buried there but to me it was just a cemetary.
At half four we had to catch our bus back home. It wasn't as terrible as the first time but it was still 16 hours in a bus.
When we crossed the border I got the feeling that I would soon be home.
Home in Moldova...
This weekend I've been to Lviv to visit some polish girls that Marta and Ola knew.
Ola had bourght a ticket for me so I just showed up at the bus station at half past six this friday afternoon. Lviv is in Ukraine which is the neighbour country. I had been told that we where suppose to drive the hole night to get there but I didn't new what it was like to sit in a bus for 16 loooong hours. Lviv has been polish once and is located close to the polich border. It's about 600 km. from Chisinau in a direct line so if we had been in Germany it would proberbly take about 5 hours to get there.
I'll try to describe the journey. I slept the first two hours but after that I spend 4 hours staring on the bumpy moldovian road. Then we got to the border and Marta said that it would take hours to get accros it. She thought she has joking but she wasn't. There where no queue but the ukranian borderguards where taking their job serious. First a guy collected all our passports and left. About half an hour later he returned and we all had to find our own passport. Then we where just waiting half an hour for some reason and then an other guy collected all our passports once more... After almost two hours we could finally cross the border.
After that I managed to fall asleep again but I constantly woke up because we had to pick up some hitch-hikers. When we finaly arrived in Lviv we all just wanted to sleep.
πbBIB as it is called in ukranian was a very beautiful city. Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteri after 6 pictures :/
Despite the lack of sleep and the dead camera we had some very good days in Lviv. Saturday we where walking around the streets looking at the city. After that we went home and had an hour of sleep before we went to a resturant. They are very good at cooking in Lviv and it was still quite cheap on resturants so we went to a resturant for all our meals. In the evening we bought some vodka and went out in the ukranian night. We couldn't help buying some vodka because we where to wales people a dane and a lot of polish people who wanted to drink vodka :)
That night i didn't sleep very well. It might be because of the fact that we where 5 or 6 people sharing a kingsize bed. Next day I was tired and had a terrible headache but I was forced by the others to go to a cemetary. It was huge with big monumets as gravestones. The polish girls found it very interesting because a lot of famous polish people where buried there but to me it was just a cemetary.
At half four we had to catch our bus back home. It wasn't as terrible as the first time but it was still 16 hours in a bus.
When we crossed the border I got the feeling that I would soon be home.
Home in Moldova...
Monday, August 9, 2010
First four weeks
Hi everybody
I've been here almost four weeks and I really enjoy it. I've got the biggest room in a nice flat and I've been told that my bed is the best bed in Chisinau. My flatmates are great. It a japanese guy called Atushi and an englishman called Chris. Atushi has just moved in so i don't know him so well yet but he seems nice and is very polite. Chris has been here almost a year a know everything about surviving in Moldova so I always ask him if I need advice. Actually the organisation wants me to ask my mentor but I don't really need a mentor so I've only talked to him very few times.
I'm working at an animation-center which is a place for kids to come after school, but there is only a few kids at the moment because most of them still have vacation so there is not much for me to do. Usually I go there a 3 o'clock (10 minutes walk) and teach my supervisor a bit english and then go home again at half three. They say it will change later when the kids start showing up.
I've started to play badminton again. It's a lot different from badminton back home. The conditions are very poor compared to Denmark and there are not as many good players. My coach will sign me up for a tournament in september where all the best moldovan and ukranian players will participate. It's gonna be very exciting but I don't think I will stand a chance to win.
Here people speak romanian and russian so if you want to speak to a local you have to speak one of those two languages. I'm supposed to learn Romanian but after the first week with romanianlessons every day I'm not really learn any romanian at the moment. Im spend most time with other volenteers speaking english and my supervisor at works speaks english as well so at the moment i'm not really forced to speak romanian.
Most weekends here have been party, party and more party. This weekend though I've been to a museum and in a themepark. There's an other volenteer called Julian who works at the museum and gives free guided tours so me and 10 other volenteers went to visit the museum. It was nice to learn something about the history of the country. After that some went to a themepark. Everything looked like it was about to break and would never have passed a test in Denmark but on the other hand. If a rolercoaster hasn't brooken in 60 years - why should it break today. The best part was the bumbcars that turned out to be fun. When we first looked at them they threw sparks and looked like they where falling apart but they where fun and thats the important part.
Next weekend me, Martyn, Marta and Ola is going to Lviv in Ukraine to visit som of Marta and Ola's friends. They where here two weeks ago and after some wine I promised to come and visit them. I think it's gonna be fun though.
Have fun!
I've been here almost four weeks and I really enjoy it. I've got the biggest room in a nice flat and I've been told that my bed is the best bed in Chisinau. My flatmates are great. It a japanese guy called Atushi and an englishman called Chris. Atushi has just moved in so i don't know him so well yet but he seems nice and is very polite. Chris has been here almost a year a know everything about surviving in Moldova so I always ask him if I need advice. Actually the organisation wants me to ask my mentor but I don't really need a mentor so I've only talked to him very few times.
I'm working at an animation-center which is a place for kids to come after school, but there is only a few kids at the moment because most of them still have vacation so there is not much for me to do. Usually I go there a 3 o'clock (10 minutes walk) and teach my supervisor a bit english and then go home again at half three. They say it will change later when the kids start showing up.
I've started to play badminton again. It's a lot different from badminton back home. The conditions are very poor compared to Denmark and there are not as many good players. My coach will sign me up for a tournament in september where all the best moldovan and ukranian players will participate. It's gonna be very exciting but I don't think I will stand a chance to win.
Here people speak romanian and russian so if you want to speak to a local you have to speak one of those two languages. I'm supposed to learn Romanian but after the first week with romanianlessons every day I'm not really learn any romanian at the moment. Im spend most time with other volenteers speaking english and my supervisor at works speaks english as well so at the moment i'm not really forced to speak romanian.
Most weekends here have been party, party and more party. This weekend though I've been to a museum and in a themepark. There's an other volenteer called Julian who works at the museum and gives free guided tours so me and 10 other volenteers went to visit the museum. It was nice to learn something about the history of the country. After that some went to a themepark. Everything looked like it was about to break and would never have passed a test in Denmark but on the other hand. If a rolercoaster hasn't brooken in 60 years - why should it break today. The best part was the bumbcars that turned out to be fun. When we first looked at them they threw sparks and looked like they where falling apart but they where fun and thats the important part.
Next weekend me, Martyn, Marta and Ola is going to Lviv in Ukraine to visit som of Marta and Ola's friends. They where here two weeks ago and after some wine I promised to come and visit them. I think it's gonna be fun though.
Have fun!
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