a few words at the end of my traineeship May 15, 2007

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..especially dedicated to my friends that were near me (physically and psihically) … during the last 6 months:)

Hello my dear friends!

If i like it or not…my traineeship is coming to its end…tomorrow is my last working day and Thursday night is my flight…

These 6 months passed very fast…like a blink…i expected to last longer…i guess is the normal human time perception:)

I learned a lot from all of you, and i am glad i had the luck of meeting so beautiful people (we call it “oameni frumoshi”…and i think is the best compliment a person can receive, because it refers to the beauty of the soul), in a country from which i didn’t know what to expect…except for the stereotypes…

I never wanted to admit it during my stay here, but Yes, Germany’s culture is very different from my culture…and more important…different from me…and somehow, even if i had a great time here, i even learned (some) German, and in the last few months i even started to understand and enjoy German jokes…i think i adapted perfectly to the environment,…but with some costs….I feel that Germany changed me…i am colder then i used to be, i lost some of my passion for having fun, for enjoying life, for laughing like crazy with no reason…for colors…for sun (because here it doesn’t exist)…for feelings and love…yes, i guess i could say that in Germany i could never fall in love my way…or maybe i am just growing up and getting older )

It is not “home”…and i don’t know if it could ever be…i am too much for this country…or maybe just for this town…and i feel that here i don’t have enough air, because i need to stop myself from saying things, from doing things, from huging people, from smiling to office colleagues, from puting passion in everything…because all this, here is innapropriate…except when i am with you…but still not 100%…because we are all in Germany:))

so i’ll go home for a breath of air:) …i am going to enjoy a warm country (35 degrees Celsius and SUN) with warm people…that have a passion for life even if they don’t have a great health system and even if they have to lock their cars in the parking places, even if the medium salary is 200 euros per month…i am going to spend a weekend on the seaside…a weekend in the mountains…a weekend in Sibiu, the most romantic city ever…entire weeks with my friends and with my familly…i will enjoy the weddings of my old friends…one month at home will give myself back to myself:)

I am very happy that i spent my time with you…you made of this traineeship a GREAT one! and everyone should know that a traineeship’s quality comes from the people IN it!!!!…and not from the Job Description…if you want a job description…go for a job!

YOU is WHY i decided to GO FOR one more traineeship;)…1 month home will be enough to pull myself together and enjoy a bit of the old times…and then a new adventure will start for me…i will most probably go to Amsterdam for one year…if not, i will be in Zurich, for half a year…anyways, both of them are quite close to here and they definitly worth to be visited:)…so you are all invited to meet again…for a cheese cake, apple wine..or whatever these different countries have as a gastronomic tradition:))

I hate proper good-byes…so don’t be upset if we didn’t manage to meet “for the last time”…

I believe the world is small…it was prooven to me so many times before …and Europe is even smaller )…it is easy to bump into eachother …i will still go to Barcelona…and i am planning to go to Ibiza for a weekend this summer…i don’t know with whom, yet…but i will write an announncement on guysandgirls …

I know for sure that i will visit Frankfurt again…i have a few places here that i have fallen in love with and i will miss, a some of you, my friends will still be in FfM for a while…and the best antitode for missing something or someone is to put your ass in a train or a plane and GO!…i have done it before…it is called spontaneity (not too common in DE though)…and if you will be around here, we can meet in Sausalitos for a cocktail ) or wherever…and you should make a mark on your maps…and visit me…i’ll make sure to inform myself about the cool pubs:)

and later on…maybe in one year from now…you should visit Romania also…

“A World without Romania”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSoruzRkj7g

All the best and MULTUMESC! (=Thank you!)
Armina

and don’t forget…
“Live, as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn, as if you were to live forever.”