Hello!
As ahabitude, we are arrived many adventures ... and we also have to take the air in other countries.
But first, little news of our neighborhoods.
Remember these gypsy children who were returning to school after many difficulties and delays in school ...
Well finally, the general who is 11 years and had never started the school was accepts and he likes it! Very anxious not to arrive on time, he got up every morning an hour early and arrived at school well before the beginning .... the director saw it offered him an alarm clock and since it Up! It must be said that the time is not a priority for the Gypsy.
Little remains for the moment has finally home because their mother does not let her go alone to school (they live behind the railway lines near the hottest part of Deva.
Speaking AC, I am willing to entrust to your prayers this area very difficult. This is the barn for a few reammenagee Gypsy families but are now too many are crowded into small pieces. But The biggest problem is not material poverty (compared to other neighborhoods). It's a neighborhood where there are prostitution and or televisions can all be lit on the day of pornographic channels. Children's behaviors are very inappropriate and quite frightening. The last time we had to face from a horde of girls agisssant anyhow.
Yet we would do everything to continue vivit this neighborhood.
During this last visit there, I received from Alex (11 years) a course in Romania in exchange for a french class! Her mother is very touching, despite very poor conditions, we always find masked, wearing and ... She always comes his finest and best coffee cups. Our friendship is important for her because she is the only Romanian Gypsies in the middle and then she lives alone with his son (her husband is gone). While there are people who come into his little hut behind the rails is important to her.
One day, we visited with us enmenes Sarolta (pronounced Charolta), the Daughter of Attila. We have been Bejan, hill where many Gypsies live in shacks, but enough spaces. I was wonderfully surprised no homepage that has been reserved. She is Hungarian, but it posed no problem.
We were visiting with Martha, all three; and that day, despite the fact that people do not know, we received many confidences. A mother, trapped with his newborn at home (Gypsy women do not leave for 3 weeks after birth) has opened his heart. Another began to ask lots of questions Sarolta, then tells him his life.
And the other way too, it was beautiful. When a girl asked us for help to fetch water, Sarolta was premeire has the answer yes. No comment from his mouth, even when we entered the tiny house, dark and not very odorous of Elisabeta (Gypsy with a friend I must speak ...!)
Otherwise, yesterday we had another great opportunity! A french, Bruno is a Deva as an engineer for a year we moved to visit his factory! Is is a metallurgical plant that processes steel and other metals to make them more resistant. So we could see the huge ovens and burned, giant washing machines, etc! Assz it was fun and interesting. I'm glad I finally got to visit a factory, my first!
Otherwise, I'm part of Deva one week and it made me much good to cut with the "routine"!
First, we went to Bucharest with Martha or she performs some medical checks. We took advantage to meet a lot of people. We stayed with the Brothers of St John (french or order it from Romania and french).
For me, the summit was among the sisters of Mother Theresa, I think some will understand ...! Their smile is their discretion are really wonderful and I am even more fan since I read that the book on Mother Teresa, I could see that their life was and demanding more and reported to the heroism and surely a very strong faith ...
Otherwise, we visited a young couple in addition to their baby welcomes five teenagers with AIDS ..... AC is also not heroic? It's an Italian layman consecrated (not religious, she offers her life to God and work) that deals finding host families has children. It is also very close to them and supports many of the familles.
After this short visit, we had the right to a delicious Italian risotto at home.
The other evening, we pass from Radu, Romanian also devoted layman of the same movement (Communion and Liberation, Italian movement). He lives with a roommate had invited Italian and Romanian 3. They made us look at the investiture ceremony of Obama!! lol
And among brothers, we have many chats with students (they live for the period of their study). Three daughters and one French Gypsy us poses many questions about our business, and perhaps they will come up Deva ....
Christina had the chance to do studies (which is not usually the case with Gypsy, especially for girls), and it is going to the U.S. she realized that it was a gypsy and she could be proud. Since then, she studied to help the Gypsy community in another.
Then we joined the girls Predeal, a small town near Brasov. La, a brother waiting for us, but in civilian (often the case), and I confess that lost in the small country roads in the middle of nowhere at night, I thought I was in a bad movie when he said that few people came up to the, "And if it was not a brother ....."!
Well, actually we have been wonderfully welcoming. We had our own house to sleep and eat, but very soon we all shared our meals with them. They were adorable, and for me it was a great first can laugh and talk about everything with the brothers. One of them has enmenes visit a castle. It was very impressive and with a collection of beautiful objects and pieces.
We also strolled a bit because the brothers' house is situated in the countryside and mountains. From where we were, we could see the ski slopes, but just see ....
Then we went to Brasov is a city very beautiful. We could imagine as we walked between its walls and its beautiful buildings such as Romania was a beautiful country before Ceauscescu happens ...
In this city where there is a strong German community and thousands of Hungarian, we learned more about the history of the country. We also understand better the Romanian-Hungarian relations. Transylvania integers (Deva, Brasov has belonged to the Hungarian ....) then the Austro-Hungarian. I made a small presentation to the girls on the region, it shows no!
We had more snow, everything had melted with the rain a few days before, but we enjoyed a "warm" exceptional we stroll through the streets of the old city take cafes, gogosh .... short, it was a good time.
But Sunday night, when we come home, more heating and 10 degrees in the house! After two days and thousands of blankets, everything is back to normal! Fortunately, the girls had a soba custody after installing radiators. This is a large rectangle of brick and ceramics that food with wood and diffuse the heat in the house. Logically, one puts one per room and it works very well. Many people still hot like that.
And since Tuesday, we have our new windows and doors. The problem is that for them, workers have a little break our house which proves to be of brick and mud ...!! good, it's nothing, we'll fix it.
I must go now.
thank you for all your testimonials.
I kiss you and feel good to you.
Matilda
