My friend Irina just returned from her Erasmus in Padova Italy. She was a Romanian/Bucharest loving person but now she had the same reaction as I always do when I return to this shithole. I don't know if it's the fact that every time I left the country I was either on holiday or simply away from home/parents/responsibilities or the fact that every time I wnet out of the airport I saw the people, the dirt and the lack inspiration the city has. I am very happy she returned because I missed her a lot and I’ll try to spend as much time as I can with her because then I'll be leaving and who knows when I’ll return. Still I hope she won't adjust back to Bucharest and get used to all the..... (I can't find the right word to explain it)... and she’ll wish to leave again. Maybe she could move to Italy, I'd rather visit her there than here :P.
The fact that she saw her return with the same eyes I see my every return proves to me that this country is hopeless and it's getting worse. I think you can't even make a difference now between gypsies and Romanians, they all look the same, dress the same, listen to the same music. If you're on the bus and you look around you one out of 10 people looks and smells decent. If they have money they don't have style or brain and if they have style and brain they are poor but willing to work and fight the system till it kills them or swallows them. I don't see a future in Romania and Romania doesn't see a future for me. That is why I decided never to return. I took this decision when I was 12, when I first saw the world over the boarders and I'm getting closer and closer to fulfilling it. The question is where…with who…in what way...as a Romanian or as a European citizen?!