tough guys and cool girls... (this post is ironical)

Almost half of the Romanian population is living at the countryside. The consequence? A big influence of non culture resulting in a lack of education… I will present in this post how is to be “cool” in some of youth’s vision:

For men: they need to be tough, to have money, to throw with money, to have a nice car, to have many friends, to be successful, to be a leader in their group, to beat all their enemies, etc…

For girls: they need to be beautiful, to have a successful boyfriend as described above who will buy everything for them, to have brand clothing, to have jewels, to be envied by the rest of the girls, etc…

Usually these people have a bad taste for everything… and people makes fun of them.

The Romanians invented 2 words for these guys: they are “pitzipoanca” for a girl and “cocalar” for a boy.

I found out 2 websites designed especially for these guys. You can find all kind of embarrassing and ridiculous pictures from Hi5 profiles… and the owners think they are cool!

http://pitzipoanca.org

http://cocalari.com

Enjoy! I have a good laugh every day!

Leamington Spa

Even before I arrived in Coventry I sent emails to Ovidiu, the other trainee for AIESEC Warwick. He works in Leamington Spa, a nice Victorian town, in the past famous for it's spa waters. So... since I "was sent to Coventry" I tried to meet him but it happened that when I had time to visit him he was going somewhere else, when he had time for a visit I had other things to do... so 2 months passed and we didn't meet.

We visited Leamington Spa and we finally met. He was our guide in this town, definitely more beautiful than Coventry. I liked the central park a lot! Here are some pictures from that day:

Jephson park:

A nice fanfare in the Jephson park...

An interesting tree

At the clock in the park

An interesting thing was the way people express their love, in public. There were some couples almost having sex on the grass in the park :)) Oh yeah baby! Go for it! Wheeeeaaaauuuuu!!!!!!!

Love is in the air... la la la... la la la...

We finally met Ovidiu, the chess master! ...and we started our guided visit, sharing impressions about UK... Hihi... :) I just can't wait to have a chess game with him!

with Ovidiu

The old city

The cathedral

The town hall


With Queen Victoria... (notice my English proud posture)

an interesting store... :)

Us, on Parade Street

We will try to keep in touch from now on, maybe we will organize a trip or something together... until then he owns us a visit at our place for a dinner! :)

How to rate your wife :) test from 1930

I was reading the free newspaper in the bus when I saw something interesting! :) A test from 1930, designed to help you to know if you have a good wife or not...

Here it is!

How to rate your wife

(Marital test from 1930 that lets men assess “quality” of their spouse)

The marital rating scale:

1. A good hostess – even to unexpected guests 
2. Has meals on time 
3. Can carry on an interesting conversation 
4. Can play a musical instrument 
5. Dresses for breakfast 
6. Neat housekeeper – tidy and clean 
7. Personally puts children to bed 
8. Never goes to bed angry, always makes up first (5pts) 
9. Asks husband’s opinions regarding important decisions and purchases 
10. Good sense of humour, jolly and gay 
11. Reacts with pleasure and delight to marital congress (10 pts) 
12. Lets husband sleep late on Sunday and holidays 

Total:__

Demerits (worth 1 point unless otherwise stated)

1. Slow in coming to bed – delays till husband is almost asleep 
2. Doesn’t like children (5 pts) 
3. Fails to sew on buttons or darn socks regularly 
4. Wears soiled or ragged dresses and aprons around the house 
5. Wears red nail polish 
6. Often late for appointments (5 pts) 
7. Seams in hose often crooked 
8. Goes to bed with curlers in her hair or too much face cream 
9. Puts her cold feet on husband at night to warm them 
10. Is a back seat driver 
11. flirts with other men at parties or in restaurants (5 pts) 
12. Is suspicious and jealous (5 pts) 

Total:__

Substract the DEMERITS from the MERITS points to find your final score, this final score can be interpreted as follows:

0-5 Very poor

6-10 Poor

11-15 Average

16-20 Superior

21-25 Very superior

Good luck! :)

Coventry; city center

The historical city center (or what remained after WW2 bombings) is made from the cathedral, remained not repaired after the war, to remind about the horrors in that times and Spon Street. That's it... in rest are just pubs and stores, commercial center, banks, etc. The city looks like that because it was almost completely destroyed by Luftwaffe. Coventry was from the beginning an industrial place, strategic during the war, that's why it was a main target for Germans.


Spon Street; Soon after the war they decided to move all the old houses remained on a street in the center. It looks like a medieval street, there are wooden houses from 12Th-13Th century... at the ground floor there are shops and restaurants.




Stop! I have to comment about next picture: Actually... No Comment! :) ... just a bin in the middle of the sidewalk...


A small park where it is an artificial lake with lots of birds (It is called here by people "The Indian Ocean", 'cause in this area are living lots of Indian and Pakistani immigrants :) they have even a mosque)

a swan

Trinity Cathedral, builded after WW2:

a squirell at Trinity Cathedral

The old cathedral: Now it's just ruins, with a reconciliation monument inside...

At the reconciliation monument

Going arround

After rain it comes the sun... a Romanian proverb...


It's not raining all the time, so in the few time with nice (and cold) weather we decided to get out of the house as much as we can. Here are some photos of Canley, our neighborhood:

Our backyard (We had snow... in April)

The front of our house

Gerard Avenue, our street

What surprised me a little was the aspect of the neighborhoods... I mean here the people ar eliving in houses, the blocks of flats are almost unexistent! Another weird thing for me it was the similarity of the houses on the same street; I mean on whole street you can see the same house multiplied several times... why?

a proud neighbour (in the evening)