Well here we are at the end of it all, the final week, its all come down to this. This week not only saw the culmination of 2 months of work in the Drama show, but we also climbed Mount Brasov.
So on Sunday we went up Brasov Mountain, and mind we didn’t head up the safe cable car way up, no no no we decided that we would go up the icy snowy mountain pass, Yey! So we slowly clambered our way up there slowly breaking off into two groups, the group who moved quickly up the path and the other less bright group who through, “geez we better catch up to the others...”, “hey why don’t we just go through that snow, and up the rocks”, “... I like it!” One guess which group I fall in. There were also other dangers associated with the climb, being in the forms of ice, heights (yes I know that one was kind of obvious), lions, tigers and Bears ‘Oh My!’ Okay I did lie about Lions and Tigers but Bears is true. Speaking of heights when we managed to get to the Brasov sign I found that not only is it on the sheer edge of a cliff, but it also has a viewing platform which goes out right over this cliff, I majorly fear so that was great. Despite all the hassle the view from up there was beautiful and if you ever go to Brasov I highly recommend seeing it.
On Monday night last week after 2 months of rehearsal, Projects Abroad hosted its 3rd Drama Show in order to raise money for an underfunded mental health hospital just outside of Brasov, while we couldn’t charge for tickets we did leave a large box at the front of the stage which we asked people to leave money in through-out the night. The show consisted of 3 different segments singing, dancing and acting. The singers were trained by one of Romania’s foremost singers, and the Dancers, 2 Dances from a group called Salsa Brasov (inventive name I know), and the night closer from Alexandra (our supervisor) and her dance partner Edi. The acting was done by the Black Juice drama group, directed by Joe and I, they performed 3 different pieces with Joe and I also performing something. The show went really well and we managed to raise 16000 Lei, which is around 6000 Aussie Dollars, so a lot of money. After stressing out the whole day because, 1 We hadn’t ever had a full rehearsal before the show, 2 Some of the sounds refused to work and 3 Some of the guys were still fumbling over lines 20 minutes before the show it was really gratifying to see the whole thing go off without a hitch.
The last two days of my time here was the hardest part, it was difficult to say goodbye to everyone and to the place that had become my home for the past 2 months. If I had to say one thing about those final days is that 2 months DEFINENTLY wasn’t enough (although I think no matter how long I was there I would have said that)
So I guess this is it for the Blog, it’s been fun reporting on the events of my week, I hope you’ve all enjoyed it.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Week 6
Hello world, yes it’s that time of the week again, where I ramble on about my time in Romania and you get to read it.
YAY!
Okay, so this week was a week off school for the kids so I had no classes, instead we had black juice every day, with the performance in a week we really had to crank up the heat. So at the start of the week we had 5 plays which were all pretty poor, but after a week of hard work we’ve gone from that to having 4 plays all decent, one was art-house sort of thing that was proving impossible to get right. It’s very different working with the Black Juice group than it is with the schools, these guys and girls not only value and listen to what we say, but they are all very talented dramatically.
This week also saw us all participate in a cooking night. It was a lot of fun and the food was all really good. The girls mad Brownies, Chocolate chip cookies and sugar cookies, Joe made some Macaroni and cheese (by hand, not from a packet), Josh made Brushetta, and I created fish fingers with secret sauce. Which has inadvertently led me to introduce this new segment:
FOOD I MADE FROM RANDOM STUFF IN THE FRIDGE!!!
This week I’ll be taking you though how to make tomato peanut sauce.
Tomato Peanut Sauce
Ingredients:
- 1 packet of salted peanuts (preferably 250 grams)
- 1 jar of tomato paste
-salami
- Pepper
- Basil
Method:
1. Get your bag of peanuts and puncture a small hole near the top of the bag, not too big just enough to let the air out. Now get something to crush the nuts with, I used a meat tenderiser but just a garden variety hammer should work. Not smash your nuts ... the peanuts until they are very very small, this has to be left to your best guess.
2. Next get you salami and cut it up into tiny pieces, so you can still chew on them, but also so you can mix it into the sauce.
3. Now this next bit is a bit of guess work, take what you want to put this sauce on and work out how much tomato paste you would normally need, now empty this amount into a medium sized bowl, and 10 grams of peanuts and 10 grams of Salami to every 50 grams of paste, also put in a shake over of pepper and basil for extra kick. Stir well
4. Voila you now have the sauce. As I said I put it on fish fingers, so all you have to do for this is buy a suitable amount of Fish fingers, cook as per packaging instructions and just lather he sauce over the top
I also discovered a new form of getting drunk this week, we all know the happy drunks, the sad drunks and the angry drunks, but now I have the pleasure of introducing *trumpet fanfare* the intellectual drunk, yes ladies and gentlemen, when you get my room-mate a bit tipsy on wine, he will defend his point of view no matter how outlandish, from god not existing (still an open debate) to 9-11 having been orchestrated by George Bush, he does it all. I will endeavour to put some video down of this (Don’t worry this one will work as someone else took the video).
I have one more video, Dagmar, who is from Holland, got us to try and read out some Dutch which she had typed out on a computer, follow the link to find my attempt.
Anyway that’s me for another week, now I’m off to clean my room before the other volunteers come over for a movie night and then... well who knows what.
Talk soon, Jackson
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