Romanian Week (1. to 5. December)

On 1st of December Romania celebrated National Day -The Great Union Day that marks the unification of Transilvania, but also of the provinces of Basarabia and Bucovina with the Romanian Kindom. In Romania this a big celebrations with a lot of military parades especially in the city Alba Iulia, the place where the Great Union took place in 1918.

As Georgiana, one of the volunteers, is from Romania, we celebrated on this occasion all week with different activities. On Monday we cook "pancove" - Romanian donuts which were very tasty!

 We had a special guest - Ion Sapdaru - a romanian actor and director who spent two month in Rezekne and had a collaboration with Joriks theatre. He talked about Romania, the significance of the 1st December but also about the most important cities from Romania and his work as an actor. It was a pleasure to host him! Thank you Ion Sapdaru for accepting our invitation!

On Wednesday, we all went to visit some fellow volunteers in Daugavpils. We met the people from Erfolg organization and we talked a lot about our projects and our work. It was very nice to meet them and to share from our experience. 

We also had time for a trip around the city : the inner city, the churches hill (were there are 5 churches from different confessions), the university and of course some shops. We were even interviewed for the local television, so as our friend said, this marked the beginning of our career on Latvian television (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxUgsL22oY). The day finished with a french evening organized by Amandine, one of the Erfolg Organisation.

Thursday we had a romanian party. We played a few games and we enjoyed it a lot, we danced and we  listened to awesome music. We finished the day with by playing Settlers of Catan, one of the most beloved strategy games here.

Friday was a short day but we had enought time to find out something new about Romania through a documentary movie - Discover Romania - Wild Carpathia

on the weekend we went back to Daugavpils, but this time to support the winner of Popiela who opened the local contest in Daugavpils - PopClip. In the morning we had time to go to ice skating and to visit Mark Rothko Art Center.