Happy mothers' day!!! I don't know if you remember from one of my previous posts but my mother likes old looking doors. So I took a picture of this door just for her, dear mom, this is your mothers' day present!
Ok I bought something else too but you'll get it only when I come back :)
Oh it is so cold in Romania today!! It feels like Canada! Really, I'm starting to think that Central and Eastern Europe don't know about the concept of "comfortable weather". Seriously, so far during the whole duration of my trip, it was either 10 degrees or 28, nothing in between!
I was walking around this morning and I saw an art gallery. I could hear music playing and it sounded good so I decided to go in. When I opened the door I was surprised because the music was much louder than I thought. That's because it was a live trio!
So cool, I found a free concert! After the first piece, the pianist got up to present the next piece... And she was speaking in German! I already knew that there is a small German community in Timișoara, seems like I found it! I thought this was really funny because yesterday I ate in a Serbian restaurant, today I listened to a concert given by Germans... I'm wondering if I'll do anything Romanian while I'm in Romania!
After the concert I went for some shopping (anything to avoid being outside!) I went to a bookstore and I spent money again on awesome kids books with pictures under the words and I even found one with audio CDs!! I had not planned on learning Romanian but now that I have this awesome learning material I will have to use it at one point!
Lunch was in a Romanian specialized restaurant (finally!) but I ordered a Polish dish haha. It was not the greatest but then again I suppose the Polish people are better at cooking their own specialty dish so I would try that same meal again if I was in Poland eventually. My mistake, I shouldn't have ordered it here.
Before leaving from Canada I thought of bringing this phrase book with me which turns out to be extremely useful here (next to it is a French-Romanian dictionary that I bought yesterday):
Seriously, I feel so stupid not being able to say anything in the local language. I know it's normal that a visitor from Canada does not speak Romanian but I was used to being able to at least communicate a little bit when I was in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. Here I am totally dependant on the other person's language skills which is a completely different feeling. I wish I had studied Romanian a little bit more before coming here. So this morning while I was walking I was practicing Romanian numbers in my head while walking ("unu, doi, trei, patru..." etc)
Now let me present you some of the pictures that I took today, not that many due to the crappy weather.
First, a crooked church (the church in real life is not crooked haha, I'm just bad at taking pictures sometimes :)
An emigration bureau for Canada!
I was tempted to go, Canada is such a beautiful country ;)
A mean grafiti:
I was so offended haha especially because I was walking all alone when I read it...
And a few buildings that I liked:
That's it for today. They're planning for the same horrible weather tomorrow so I guess I will be taking a few more pictures and shopping a lot!
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