Our life in Slobozia

All this time in Slobozia made us Slobozia citizens. We know the city, we use its services, we talk with our neighbors, our dogs know the way to go to the parks, we know the better shops, we have our favorite bars and restaurants... We are Slobozians!

We want to show you how is our normal life in Slobozia and you will know a little bit more about our new home.
As you know Slobozia is a small city of Romania, it's the capital of Ialomita county, named by Ialomita river. It's placed in the South east of Romania, a rural area and one of the poorest zones.
Slobozia has 50.000 inhabitants, and it's a conection point between Bucharest and the coast. A few factories are located in Slobozia but the county is still a rural zone with a lot of fields. Despite of other small cities in Romania, it has a good communication with other points through trains and buses. Slobozia has local media, a local TV chanel and some newspapers.
Slobozia is the mix of a growing city in a traditional rural area.
*We appeared in an article in a local newspaper which you can read here.

Slobozia has several cultural and artistic services: Museums, Library, Cultural centers, Sport centers and Theather. We went a few times with the kids to the Cultural House to join some theather plays, cinema, performances or events, for example on 2th April - the Autism day. (You can read about it here).

One of the most popular centers is the Cultural Center Ionel Perlea, placed in the market square. Ionel Perlea was a very famous conductor and composer particularly associated with the Italian and German opera repertories.

Slobozia has a lot of restaurants and coffebars and many fast food restaurants (a few of them are 24/7). It has also a few clubs.

We tried to go to every bar in Slobozia, but we didn't!
Here you can see us in:
* Restaurant Atlantic
* Park bar
* Alt bar
* Glamour bar
* Cultural center bar
* Piper club

One of the things I really like about Slobozia is that it has a lot of parks and green zones. Slobozia has a lot of trees and a lot of them are fruit trees which is really cool in summer, when everyone can take apples, nuts, and other fruits from them.

 

There are 2 places we always visit in Slobozia (we could say that we go almost everyday):

*Univers shop, this is a stationery-bookshop which in fact is a shop for everything you need. Here you can buy a bike, a blackboard, a perfume, a lamp, toilet paper, a toy, a puzzle, and even water.
The workers of this shop really hate us, we always want specific things that we don't know how to explain in romanian haha, it's always funny!

*The non stop, this is a small supermarket which is located so close of our flat and it is always open. This means that we can watch Breaking Bad at any time and we can buy coke, cheaps and chocolate. (This is why everyone will come back home with some kilo more, even Daniel)

For us Slobozia is our home. We feel very confortable here and we like it very much.
If you want to know more about Slobozia, just come here!!!!

Al :)

Carpet music! Let's sing together

We spent a few evenings in Vila Raluca singing outside. We called this activity "garden music". Daniel played guitar and the kids played some percussion instruments. We sang romanian pop hits, and a few times english songs. Many kids are so young that they don't know how to read so they sang the songs by memory!
We were inside the house last time we did this activity, so this time we called it "carpet music".

Here you can watch some of the songs we sang and played: Enjoy it!!

Perfect fara tine:

Tu si eu:

Lumea e a mea:

Music is natural and necessary for humans, we connect with music physically, sensory and mentally. Music has amazing benefits for our body and mind, so tell me, have you made music today?

Al :)

Dadaist poetry

To make a Dadaist poem pick up a text (from a book, a newspaper, a writing...), take a pair of scissors, choose a part of the text with the length you want to give to your poem and cut it out.

Carefully, cut out each word and pop them in a bag, shake it gently. Take a word after another and copy the poem in the order in which they appeared.

The poem will resemble you.

One of our last activities was a dadaist poem. I gave the kids a white sheet of paper and I asked them to write about this year with us. They were very concentrated and they wrote a lot! Then we cut word by word and we saved them in a box. At the beginning they were so reticent to cut the paper "we will lose everything that we wrote". They trusted me and we mixed everyone's words in the box.

 

Then we took, randomly, a few words to create our poem. Our poems needed a good and a creative backdrop so we chose our Pollock paintings. You can read about our Pollock activity here.

The unexpected results are very funny, beautiful and very colorful!

Our dadaist poems:

Wonderful, beautiful.
We played. Smiley.
Me, Dada
with the kids.
Performance, fantasies,
surprises, love.
Extraordinary.

I was a dadaist elephant.
Funny, playful mind.
Beautiful.
Joy.
I'm a flower with the volunteers.

Beautiful, Dada,
it was beautiful.
A lot of happiness.
Daniel, beautiful.
Zebra.
Surprise.
Activities with love.
Happiness.
Beautiful year.

I liked the sweets.
Amazing volunteers.
Trips, colors, juice,
theater, giraffe, circus,
gymkhana, park, cakes,
happiness.
I was mad.

The last one is my favorite ^^.

Al :)

"The Goblins Trap", our Movie Project

Take care, Slobozia, your streets are not safe anymore! Vampires and Goblins set the city in terror, fighting against each other and against the humanity, which were become zombies and not even a small candle lights up these dark times of politic failures, intolerance and hate!

In February we started a big movie project with the kids and youngsters of Vila Marian. To begin this kind of projects you need a good plan. We started to introduce the projects to the kids and who wants to join, is in, always ready to sit hours in the mask to become a wild zombie or a sick vampire.

To put the kids in responsibility we let them choose everything a movie is made of: The plot, the charakters, the time and so on! And so the first days passed by before the camera even appears.

But after the theory the times of recording started! The kids became zombies, vampires, sick and undead human, presidents, and so on! We decorated the rooms, we went outside to the streets, we recorded in our own flat, in our backyard and even in a small forest.

After all scenes were recorded a hard time of cutting and editing start for Yoana, Dada and me. It really takes a lot of time, even when it´s just a 15minutes-movie.

But it´s worth it!

After all our work this movie deserve a first view in a cool, special environment, so we invite our actors and our coordinators (and their colleagues of the direction) to a premiere of our movie. We darkened the room and placed the chairs in a cinema order. Before we present the movie we showed and commented the pictures of the process of making our movie.

Here you can see our science fiction-comedy-horror-movie "The Goblins Trap":

And for the brave persons, the full version with Intro and an alternative, horrifying end:

 - Daniel

(You don´t get the movie? Here is the description: After an era of a bloody and horrible war against vampires, humanity and goblins the leaders of each race understood that the negative aspects of the endless war is bigger than the results of a success after more and more years of war. The leaders sign a peace contract and a time of corny peace begins. But there is a crazy goblin scientist who hates the humanity. She invents a poison which made humans become zombies. This has two effects: Humanity are zombies now and the vampires don´t have a ressource for blood anymore, because the goblins blood isn´t effective for the vampires. The vampires have a huge interest in rescuing the humanity for rescuing themself and send their own scientists to find an antidote! In the meantime outside in the streets another war appears: A war between zombies, goblins and vampires. The leaders of the goblins and the vampires are talking and it comes out, that the leader of the goblins is totally uninterested in rescuing the humanity, because by killing the zombies and letting the vampires just die because of missing blood-ressources makes the goblins be the leaders of the world.

But in the end the vampires find a working antidote, which makes zombies human again! The goblins are sent to prison (which is not noticeable in the movie, because the scene is cutted out of the video) and the humans are rescued. And with the humans the vampires?! No! It turns out, that the antidote make the human healthy again, but their blood...
... is missing!)

Gradinita Fun house

We spent 2 wonderful and really funny evenings at Fun House (loc de joaca pentru copii/ playground for kids).
Here there are the funniest pictures:

 

 

Daniel and me also played like kids because: play is healthy, funny and necessary!!!

Al :)