Back in Romania – Impressions

Now, this might look like one of the posts where i complain, and that is because i do complain. In the last week i realized that i am really in the Reverse culture shock phase, it’s all good, at least i realized that i need to calm down and try to understand what the fuck is going on around me. My patience is on the edge, i am like a boiler room ready to explode at any point, i even started to have dreams where i was beating the bus driver (he deserved it), but i was wandering what was the trigger for this phase of my reintegration…and i got it, it is somehow related with the culture and people behaviour.

Last week, being in the bus i saw a woman being beat and pushed out of the bus by the bus driver because she didn’t have a ticket while the people responsible with giving her a normal ticket were just watching…i was so shocked i could not even move, the main reason to do that was because the woman was a Gypsy, people in the bus were laughing and having fun…

Today buying the newspaper on the front page there was an article about “a group of EMO’s” that were arrested in the bus because they did not have tickets and become aggressive…the all article was focus on the fact that the individuals were EMO generation representatives and they might have been under the influence of drugs, but the police cannot prove that…

Now, first of all, since when a buss ticket is more important than a person??? 2nd how many people are being aggressive every day in the bus because they don’t have tickets? why don’t they make the first page of the news? maybe they are not drunk, Gypsies or EMO, they gave no chance i guess.

Paying my sisters university tax i had to stay in a line having about 25 people in front of me, while waiting, a “Romanian” guy just went in front of the queue, got first, payed and left, while people were saying nothing…what if that guy was an EMO or Gypsy??

Enjoy your staying in Romania, make sure you have a ticket, don’t get a sun tent and make sure you don’t wear black…