May 2011
6 posts
The mountaineer
I met him when I was very little, about 6 years old. I had in mind an image of an old grouchy man and I wasn’t too keen on meeting him on the trip to Sinaia. To my surprise he turned out to be a very nice man with incredible stories and actually very fun!
I was with my mum and he took us in the woods and showed us secret paths in the same time telling us stories about the places we were...
What I liked on Tuesdays
On the way to my English or IT class there was this huge wonderful old house. In front of it, there was a nice garden with a little magnolia, a swing and apart from that, in spring it’s filled with red tulips. There’s a wonderful poofy German shepherd dog. Two very old people live there. A lady with her husband. On every Tuesday at 5 o’clock they just sit there on the ...
The man with colors
He used to sit every weekend in the park in front of the National Theatre with his paintings on the sidewalk, among other people that did the same. But he had something that made everyone stop in front of his paintings. He had talent. He was a real artist. He had small pictures most of them the size of an A4. Houses, trees – all made out of simple lines smudged with the finger across the canvas....
The treasure man
My dad had a good friend who was much older than him. He was an archaeologist. I heard that he had dug the whole city and the whole region making discoveries and trying to save historical buildings, ruins or what was left of them. A great man in his field, I am sure. I got to visit him a few times at his place. He lived in a flat. It was messy but he knew where all his things were (kind of my...
Lilac man
I had the idea of this project a few days ago, remembering that on the first Sunday of May people celebrate the blooming of the lilac tree in the yard of the beautiful house of Sadoveanu (in Iasi, Romania - see here). When I was little I used to go there with my dad at least once a month every summer. It was quiet, it was green and there was a man who told us beautiful stories.
I was too little...
