Second thought

I gave my "delete" decision a second thought and restored the blog, even though I probably won't be much of a blogger.

The new thing in my life: tango

Bajofondo - Zitarrosa

Monthly post..

Listening to Placebo, preparing to go to bed..only 10 pm.

Last week had been a drag, this week even more and I'm still struggling to get back on track.
Lucky for me, my job keeps me completely occupied during the day.

Back to B City

My april adventure of teaching in a natural park ended and I'm back to the noisy big city again...
Walking 10 minutes to work every day for two weeks, living near the forest... fresh air and birds singing all around made me analyze my life so far and created quite a storm in my heart.
Ever since I was little I wanted to move to B City and stay there forever, there where everything happens and where 11 pm doesn't mean empty streets and closed bars.
In my small town I was always bored and wanted something else, something noisy, crowded, fun, and B City seemed like THE perfect solution.
But now, after almost 7 years of B City, when my life has become a closed circle (traffic-job-traffic-home-sleep) I realized maybe the circle provided by an S Mountain City (S=small) is not so bad as it seems.
And the worst part is I started hating my "sit-in-front-of-computer" job and wanting a "field" job.
This is almost hilarious, come to think about it...Since I'm a geographer, I'm supposed to do field work, but when I was in college I always hated the idea of field work. ...now I want a job outside the office.

As you can see, I'm upside down right at the moment, I could even go as far as admitting I don't know what I want anymore...


But I promised some bison photos from the "Vanatori Neamt Natural Park" so here goes:
(all of them are taken this month)

One bison staring at intruders

Three bisons staring at intruders

Some poor tree tormented by bisons

A stork in a tree near the bison reservation

A means of transportation still heavily used in the villages of Romania

Below is one of the many monasteries which attract thousand of tourists (romanian and foreigners) in Bucovina and Northern Moldova every year

Sihastria Monastery

And finally, me climbing (I was properly equipped for this activity - the only appropiate things were the boots:))

PS: As I mentioned in the previous post (I forgot my camera at home), I am not the author of these pictures (my students took them).

I'm thinking about deleting

my blog.

To answer Heptafon's question, I'm out of depression. I'm just tired and bored right now.

And I have nothing interesting to say.

I'm going out of town tomorrow for almost two weeks, in a natural park (Vanatori Neamt Natural Park).
If I manage to take some good photos of the European bison, I promise to share them with you.

PS: bored=bored of working all day and not having time to do something boring like cooking, swimming, reading, music(ing, just to rhyme), dancing, kissing, spring(ing, the same rhyme reason), walking in the sun/wind/rain, smelling the green grass etc.

LATER EDIT: Of course I forgot my photo camera at home! Good thing the students have cameras :)

I'm depressed

and tired.

When will be women considered EQUAL to men? Man's partner? Why we are just someone who loves the man, cooks and cleans for him, goes to work and bears his children somewhere in between?
I want to scream "this is so unfair", but instead I'm just preparing for another day, where coming back from work doesn't mean watching TV and drinking beer or playing computer games to relax.

And what makes it more sad, is that there are millions and millions of women out there thinking the same thing right now...working, crying, sad, alone, ill...women.

I at least am loved.
Am I ungrateful, have I not yet come to peace with my statute, of not being a man?

Farewell of Slavianka

Farewell of Slavianka (Russian: Прощание славянки - Proshchanie Slavianki) is a Russian patriotic march, written by the composer Vasily Agapkin in honour of the Bulgarian women bidding farewell to their husbands who left for the First Balkan War. The march premiered in Tambov in 1912 and was subsequently released as a single. Slavianka means "Slavic woman".

The melody gained popularity in Russia and adjoining countries during the World War I, when the Russian soldiers left their homes accompanied by this music. It was also used as an unofficial anthem of Admiral Kolchak's White Army.

It was commonly believed, erroneously, that prior to its use in the award-winning 1957 film The Cranes Are Flying, the song was banned in the Soviet Union due to associations with the tsarist regime and the counter-revolutionary movements. This was not the case. This march was published in an official collection of music for Red Army orchestras[1], and it was recorded in the early 1940s, by a military orchestra under Ivan Petrov (1906-1975). There are lyrics which are usually sung by the Red Army choir, even today.

Subsequently, several Russian and Polish composers attempted to write lyrics for this music. During the 1990s, the Yabloko party lobbied for the march to be adopted as the National Anthem of Russia, but without success. Currently, the march is recognized as the anthem of the Tambov Oblast. Ships cruising along the Volga and the Rossiya train which runs from Moscow to Vladivostok make use of the tune before departing. Train #2 (named "Ukraine" at the time) used to depart from Kiev to Moscow to the sound of this tune.
source: wiki

Happy 2009!

Hvorostovsky - Troika

"I'm lovin' it!"