Romania

Sunday 22.5: Travelling day

We left our home city Pieksämäki in Finland at 6 am. First we rode a bus to Helsinki, the capital

city of Finland, for four hours. From Helsinki we flew to Istanbul, Turkey, where we had a layover.

Our second flight was from Istanbul to our destination country, Romania. We arrived at Bucharest

at about 9 pm. Then we rode a bus for almost four hours to Craiova. It was a long and exhausting

day of travelling. When we finally got to our hotel, we went straight to bed.

Monday 23.5: The first day

In the morning we had breakfast at our hotel before heading to the Nicolae Romanescu School.

There we had opening festivities for example performances including singing and dancing. We

played volleyball and basketball with the local students when we had a break. In the first

workshop we made posters of our previous trips as a part of this project. Next, we had a short

lesson about writing an article. We went back to our hotel for lunch. In the afternoon we visited

Romanescu Park where we saw different animals and beautiful nature. On our way back we

stopped at a grocery store to buy some snacks and water. When we got back to the hotel, we had

dinner. For the rest of the night we had free time (yay), which we spent in down town.

Tuesday 24.6: The second day

Our second day started with breakfast, as usual. At nine o’clock we needed to be ready to leave

the hotel. A bus was waiting for us outside and our trip to Cazanele Dunarii was able to begin. We

were really excited about the trip and ready to take a big dose of sun. Unfortunately, right after

departure it started to rain. We travelled three hours from Craiova to Orsova, where a boat was

waiting. The Cazanele Dunarii is the rock sculpture what can be seen from the river Tonava. The

trip on boat took three hours which included lunch. After the trip we had the same journey back

to the hotel. At seven o’clock we had dinner. For food was given french fries and chicken. In the

evening we still watched The World Championship when Finland played. To our delight Finland

won. After a long day we were so ready to go to bed.

Wednesday 25.6: The third day

In the morning after the breakfast we left to the “Nicolae Romanescu“ School. There we had a

workshop about “Strategies of critical reading related to news/using social media in a smart ways.

We were separated for two groups and doing the workshop went great. After the school day we

had a lunch at our hotel. After the lunch we had free time. the next activity was visiting Botanical

Garden. There was really beautiful and the weather was wonderful. In the park were swans, lots of

flowers and it was green everywhere. There we got some group photos also. Then we had free

time and we went to eat with our own group. The rest of the day we were just chilling in the

downtown.

Thursday 26.5: The fourth day

The day began with a visit to a radio studio. It was pretty near our hotel and we had a little tour at

the radio building. We also got a chance to sit in the studio and speak into the mic, although not in

a live broadcast. Next on the program we had a museum which was about Oltenian history, which

is a region in Romania. In Nunta Zamfirei, a local steak house we enjoyed good food and company.

Then we had free time until seven o’clock when we had the last meal together. First in the

ceremony we had a speech from the Romanian coordinator and the attendance certificates were

handed out. Then we had food and a great speech from Vesa, our headmaster. After eating we

spent time by dancing with the other students or watching the quarter-finals of the ice hockey

world championship.