Francesc
“Hi there! I’m Francesc and I come from Spain. I’ve studied law and I hope to meet you at our activities to know from each other about our culture and countries!”
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“Whenever one arrives to a new place is difficult not feel a bit lost and Romania wasn’t an exception for me when our project started and we just landed in this country.
Even though a grew in a town that shares a lot of similarities with Bailesti is undeniably that the Spanish and the Romanian culture are very different, from some special traditions to how to greet people I was learning new things everyday. Of course another issue that must be mentioned is the language barrier that in one hand its really interesting to learn a new language and specially one as Romanian on the other hand made the simplest things like
asking for an address or buying our groceries a mimic spectacle. Also other thing that I’m more than pleased to discover is the Romanian gastronomy at first I found myself missing a loot of products that can easily be found where I live but the more Romanian dishes I try the less I miss my grandma’s recipes because here we have discovered a wonderful and delicious cuisine.
It has been hard to leave our countries and come to a new one and I still have a lot of things to see, to discover, to learn and to understand from Romania but now that I know a few words in Romania and a handful of Romanian traditions I must say that the first week here was one of the fastest and most enjoyable learning experiences that I had so far and I know that for this
six months is going be even better.”
