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Happy independent head-in-the-clouds and feet-on-earth person, this requiring a lot of sense of balance:) Soft hearted, tough headed, a rebel office worker, fluent in many foreign languages, including body language, an avid reader, a wild dancer, a walker, a dreamer...

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February 2005

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What English speakers call now world music (tango, flamenco, bossanova, fado, gypsy...), new wave and underground 80's, loads of indie rock, U2, Led Zep, Leo Cohen, Tom Waits, anything genuine
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Mostly non-Hollywood: Fellini Satyricon, Andrei Rubliov, The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), more recently: The Sea Inside, Talk to her, Head-on (Gegen die Wand), Don't move (Non ti muovere), The Edukators (Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei), Me and You and Everyone We Know, 2046, Paradise Now, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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Sports, me? Only hiking, swimming, dancing (tango beginner, salsa, samba...belly dancing;)
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Wine is the best (of all colours)
Arts and culture
Gothic and Art Nouveau, Impressionists, Expressionists, etc. Visual and performing arts, literature of all times and countries...culinary art too;)
Travels (East to West)
Istanbul (Turkey), Budapest (Hungary), Wroclaw (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic), Berlin, Potsdam, Stuttgart and Muenchen (Germany), Paris and Reims (France), most of Italy, from Venice to Naples, Lisbon, Coimbra and center of Portugal, most of the Caribbean, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Tampa, Cape Code and New Orleans (USA), little of Canada. Sierra Mixteca (Oaxaca), some of Yucatan and DF in Mexico. Montevideo and seaside in Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Salvador de Bahia, Brasil. Longing for India and more of Latin America.
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AUGUST 26, 08 - TRAPPED INSIDE

I feel like being on stand by right now, left here and waiting for something to happen. Something else, although maybe I am supposed to make a move. Get serious about working on my thesis, for a start and decide what I want to do with my future, what I really want from life, instead of just living it. I think I’ve been just too passive nowadays, saying Yes! to all possible things to do, except getting to work on the most important thing.

Somehow I know I have to stop running around, on the other hand my natural lack of patience and restlessness keep me on the run.

I kept myself plugged to Uruguay lately, I saw a great bittersweet movie called “El baño del papa”, another one called “El Ultimo Tren” – both about simple people trying to make a change in their lives, go against the flow no matter what is costs. I liked both of them, they’re very touching. I also attended two national day celebrations, a community picnic with asado, tortas fritas, tango and candombe in Parc Angrignon and a formal reception in hotel meeting room. Uruguayans still amaze me through their kindness and generosity.

The week-end before I was in Toronto with my boyfriend, basically to see his brother and family, I didn’t know what to expect but finally I felt I could consider them family too. No pressure, a warm welcome, we did have a good time, except the Greyhound trip, that left us stranded in Ottawa at 1am, waiting for the next connecting bus that came at 7am. Quite an unforgettable and unforgivable night. Next time it will definitely be Coach Canada.

I liked Toronto, the biggest and busiest city in Canada, a normal American metropolis. The Royal Ontario Museum is beautiful and has an impressive multicultural art collection, much bigger than anything in Montreal, the Ontario Lake looks huge and the harbor is packed with terraces, restaurants and bars, exotic food stalls, a colorful craft market. I liked the street cars and the Korean grill restaurant on Yonge Street where you grill your own stripes of the chosen meat. The weather was gorgeous and I was so happy to see my best friend Laura who left Montreal a while ago. She’s single now, she paints and takes flamenco classes, I miss her, she understands me better than anyone else, and it’s not only about being Romanian. I was glad to get to spend an evening alone with her and I was glad Adrian understood this. I was glad they liked each other; after all she’s the closest person I have in Canada, even if we met here. I wish I had more time to explore China town or some Caribbean neighbourhood.

My “brother-in-law”, Eduardo, took me and Adrian to Niagara, it was more of a courtesy to me, as Adrian had already been there. The falls are beautiful, two white masses of water and foam set amongst green banks, with spray floating in the air like thin fog, but the city by it is a terrible combination of Las Vegas and Luna Park, with at least 5 wax museums, a Frankenstein castle and a Dracula one, accompanied by scary prices everywhere.

This would be the present picture, waiting for the summer to take its last breath and give way to autumn. We’ll be going camping to Mont Tremblant – Lac Chat this week-end with some Romanian friends, I’m looking so much forward to get away from the city for a while.
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AUGUST 6 - IT WON'T STOP RAINING AND Alexander Solzhenitsyn DIED
He was burried today in Moscow, according to the Christian Orthodox tradition. He looked like Tolstoi and Dostoievski, exbiting an impressive monk beard. A lot of Russian writers had a special relationship with religion, particularly redemption. Film makers too, I still remember Pavel Lunghin's "Ostrov"/ The Island - a heartbreaking description of what Orthodoxys is really about.

Solzhenitsyn's story is impressive and so are his books, depicting the Gulag's life and the Russian communist regime the way they were. I wonder what would I have done under such conditions. I wonder how today's Romanian teen-agers would be if they were born under communists like my generation, standing with one foot on each side. I was definitely marked by it and I am attracted to stories of those times, admirable stories of the human spirit being stronger than its frail body needs.

May the writer rest in peace and may his work have an everlasting life. Amin
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JULY 29, 2008 - WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT?
I use this blog as a diary and during the last month I barely followed routines: cooking, cleaning, going to work daily, to the gym twice a week, re-starting my tango classes and practice. I feel like there was really nothing happening worth to be mentioned. The jazz festival went away without major revelations, except a Cape-Verdian singer – Mayra Andrade, but still, I didn’t buy her CD. This summer is very capricious, it keeps raining for a few weeks now and you can never trust the forecast 100%. The fact is that I feel an urge to get out of the city; it’s been a long time since I got “trapped” here.

My couple life goes well, with small crises which I find normal for two people trying to adjust themselves to living intimately together. We have similar tastes but different backgrounds and lifestyles, even if we watched pretty much the same cartoons as kids. I have a lot of physical energy to spend walking, dancing, swimming, he likes to draw, read, watch films and share time with friends, mostly sitting down and talking. Different basic needs and priorities. So we have to meet somewhere in the middle, which made me give up going on a great hike on Saturday. Time will tell if the efforts on both sides are not too much for a lasting relationship.

At tango I met a new friend from Uruguay, Luis, a very nice gentleman, who also likes murga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murga ), so we are talking about the Uruguay national day celebration on August 24th as an opportunity to organize a small tango event. Later in September we want to organize an event dedicated to murga and candombe (http://www.candombe.com/english.html ), with me talking about my experience in Uruguay. And the interview taken for Brecha in April finally appeared in the Montevideo weekly newspaper: “Entusiasmo por la murga
A contraestación. El azaroso camino desde Montreal al Teatro de Verano de una periodista rumana tras el pulso y encantamiento de la murga y el Carnaval. A la vez, ayer se presentó un libro de una artista y académica uruguaya instalada en Estados Unidos que reflexiona sobre el fenómeno de la murga joven. Miradas académicas que no dejan de lado la pasion.” I’m not a journalist as they call me, but what matters is the intention.

Only last week I managed to start transcribing the interviews I took myself, I’m half way done, it’s a boring and tiring process. Plus, I hate the idea of telling my Uruguay story filtered by sociological, communication and anthropological theories, but there’s no other way, and I want to have everything done and wrapped up by December.

So I don’t have much to write. On our free time, I spend time with Adrian seeing friends: dinners, barbecues, one wedding, we managed to go to the swimming pool only once, due to weather conditions. I don’t have time for getting back to my creative writing; he’s been looking for a job for two weeks now, briefly, it’s not the greatest summer I ever had, barely bearable, but living with Adrian adds spice and fun to it.

Last but not least, an Uruguyan film to be seen: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/...
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Spring is wandering around
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Just wanted to wish good luck with everything.
Dancing through life requires strength..it seems you have it.xx
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Mikil O L:eary
what did I do with your advice? i took it.
what advice did I take? i put on a brighter skin.
what do i need to say? thanks for the good advice. keep enjoying yourself, and always take vitamins.
113 weeks ago
Mikil O L:eary
let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky,
like a patient etherized upon a table.
115 weeks ago
Max Aversa
I'm so sad and disappoint. Just before your birthday......

I hope the pain will leave soon your heart Anto.
I miss you and I wish to hold you in this moment (just to relief your scream)

Love you.

Max
156 weeks ago
Sajani Swamy
Interesting thoughts! Most people are (myself included) just so scared of taking a risk, no matter how small it is, of colliding with another human being in a meaningful fashion.

Hope your move goes well and you get settled in nicely!

Miss ya,

Saj
157 weeks ago
 
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