The Camp : Part 3

Part 3. Still without pictures. And just as a note : i will upload the pictures to a picasa web album and i’ll post here the link. I thought of this because if i was to post all the pics here then the page would have been loading pretty hard. So it’s a better soluton of both me and you.

As for the part 3 of this…saga…i’m thinking of what else to tell you about. I’m trying to think of something else to say about it but nothing pops into my mind now…

Oh well…

After the lunch which i’ve said before, was pretty fair just to cover your sensation of hunger ( in my case worked very well ) we had like 2 or 3 hours of free time in which we could do whatever we wanted. Some of us were gathering for a Dutch Blitz ( which is a card game brought here by the americans [ i mean they brought the decks and everything ] and we kind of adopted really quick ) game , others were upstairs playing ping-pong, others were playing basketball, others were going on the hill’s top for a little chat ( as a braket , on the plain field which was on the hill’s top were dozens of white grasshopers, you were pacing and they were scattering really sudden ). I was into all these ( except the ping-pong , which i once played heavily but then drop it ).

Usually, dinner was the most consistent meal of the day. There were mashed potatoes , sweet cabbage, fish sticks, chicken, pickles … of course not all at once In my opinion ,the best of all was the barbequed chicken , sided by mashed potatoes ( with lots of salt, exactly as i like ) and either pickles either cucumbers.

At the last dinner, we had the same thing that i called my personal favourite + mexican mix . Once again , i thank God because i haven’t had any problems with food.

Because i bought Lullaby like 1 day before i was leaving for camp and by that time iread pretty much of it ( ~120 pages in one day) i’ve decided i should bring it with me. Wrong. Have i had any time for reading ? Nay . So now when i came back i started all the way from the start because i’ve forgotten everything that i’ve read before leaving for camp.

Even though, i checked my reading list and i think august will contain — in the best case — 4 books. Lots of traveling, little time.

The Camp : Part 2

So as i said, for today, the part 2. Still without pics.

On the first night we spent there , most of us were neither tired nor rested , i think it was somehwere between those states. So, many of us, except the staff, didn’t go to bed until 3 or 4 in the night ( this is normal because before the camp i was having this habit of getting asleep at that kind of hour…so i guess it was pretty normal–another thing that was normal was the awaking, we were supposed to wake up at 7 – 7:30 in the morning to have breakfast, but after some days in which a pattern for the not-so-normal breakfast was made,some guys just skipped breakfast in order to sleep some more ). So, because of my habit of getting asleep late in the night, the awaking was pretty hard ( back at home i ussualy get up at 11-12 am ) but after a few days it all came natural i think.
The breakfast , which is supposed to be the most important meal of the day, was pretty “poor” . Of course, for the breakfast a patter emerged after a few days. Something like this : chocolate cream/jelly , tomatoes, cheese, boiled eggs, salami/ham, coffee/tea ( the tea was really undrinkable so i preffered coffee ) and cucumbers. It may look rich but it was poor, actually, the only thing i used to eat was the chocolate cream because it was the single thing that tasted good. So after a poor breakfast we had either competitions either sports. I forgot to say that we were splited into two teams : The Pirates and The Bandits — i was a pirate. The competitions were for points, the sports not — the sports were just for fun. Also, a thing that i have to mention is that we were also divised into groups, small groups of 6-7 persons. The purpose of the group was to discuss problems and issues more effectively than in the big group, thing which i think it happened. Also, among us, there were 14-15 ( sorry but i can’t recall the exact number ) american teens who where here for their first time ( romania that is ) . In our group we had two americans, Dan and Conor. I don’t know how we decided but i was the translator of the group,that means i translated both ways english-romanian and romanian-english.Don’t get the wrong idea, i’m not complaining, i really enjoyed it. So in the first morning we got to know each other. As for the rest of the days, the time we spent in the first day on knowing one another was spent on competitions and sports. In competitions , all the members of the crew were supposed to get in the game. There were two kind of competitions, boys and girls. That is boys vs boys and girls vs girls ( fair enough ) . After the competitions in which we all participated, we had either sports ( in which the participation was optional ) either free time — which free time i used it to talk to our overseas guests. At 13:00 Pm , the lunch was on . The lunch was pretty neat, thank God i haven’t had any problems with food ( in most — actually , all — the camps i had problems with food — not so much of a hard stomach ). The thing with the food was that it wasn’t much but was enough, i mean i haven’t suffered from starving or something, actually, i don’t know who picked that kind of meals … but after all that huge effort that i spent during the day i didn’t feel hungry. Not a bit. For the others who might have dealed with this kind of problems, a shop was there for them. The shop was awesome, it had so low prices ! For example : a bar of Snickers was 1.5 ron ( the price you pay in Cora for the exact same bar ) , a MD 0.5 bottle was 2.0 ron ( in my market from here it is 2.5 ron ) , a Nestea/Lipton Ice Tea at 1.5 Litres which ussualy reaches 4.5-5 ron , it was 3.5 ron. My expectations were blasted away which such low prices. I know they had some chips and stuff but i haven’t bought any so i don’t know their prices. But still… .
Ok, i think it’s enough for today, for more, cya tomorrow.

The Camp : Part 1

As i said some days ago, as soon as i’ll be in possesion fo the photos i’ll start blogging about the camp. Unfortunately, i still haven’t got them but i’m on pins and needles so i have to talk about the great experience i had there. Oh yeah, i’ll blog in english so my friends from overseas can understand too ( because i know you do ) . Also,i have to say there’ll be more parts than 2…i think.
Enough with the introduction.

I got at the train station on the 6th, sorry i don’t remember the hour. Even though, where we were going ( Ojasca ) — that is, we couldn’t make it with just a single train, so in Buzau we had to switch the train and buy the tickets, fortunately, we could buy both the tickets ( Bucuresti-Buzau and Buzau-Ojasca ) from Bucharest which was really good cause the distance in time between the two trains we were to switch in Buzau was like 15 min and we should’ve be in haste all the time back there. It all costed 7ron, this because we took a low-cost train. The journey lasted 3 hours from Buc. to Buzau and 1 hour from Buzau to Ojasca. Because it was a low-cost train we didn’t have booked seats we tryed to find them but in all that crowdy atmosphere we dropped the thought and organised as good as we could. When the atmosphere was turning into a funny one we had to switch the trains , and in the other one we had to stay on our feet cause that was crowdy as well. We got there in the evening and from the train station to the camp site we walked. There’s a mental institute there but we didn’t get any attention from the “prisoners” . I don’t quite remember well what i did on the first day but i know was quite tired but not enough to fall asleep around 11-12 pm. The thing is i felt a lil bit woozy and scruffy but i didn’t take a shower that night.
I just remember that the sight took my breath away . really, the sight you were getting from there was really breath-taking. You could see the mountains and the buzau river as well, and the best thing is that all that was a panoramic view, not cornered by any other things…just pure bliss.
Ok…i hope this is enough for today…i’m really worn out and i can’t continue. I hope that the guys’ll send me the pics really soon so i can share some of them with you,here. ( i heard there’re like 1000 )
Cya later